ABSTRACT
The Oxford University Press [OUP] promoted outstanding humanities research both directly and indirectly, and did not confine its twentieth-century scholarly role to publishing: it was itself a powerful research engine, directly funding and organizing the huge Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford historians Cruttwell, C. H. Firth, F. J. Haverfield, J. L. Myres, Spencer Wilkinson had helped to establish geography as a final honours school, and Oxford's geographers from the 1930s to the 1950s viewed history as a sister subject'. Among Oxford's inter-war medievalists, Poole and Powicke were in their teaching and writing far from guilty, but McKisack was criticized on this ground and both Williams and Watson offended some by their Anglocentricity'. This chapter describes G. N. Clark who was also already a fine scholar in 1929, with a close understanding of Europe and well versed in its languages. A. J. P. Taylor's letters to Clark while writing his English History 1914-1945 testify to Clark's editorial skills, which were as discreet and un-self-advertising as to be all too easily under-estimated.
