Robin W. Winks (1930–2003)

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1. Judith M. Brown

   Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire)

2. A. N. Porter

   Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century

3. P. J. Marshall

   Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

4. Nicholas P. Canny

   Author of The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

5. William H. McNeill

   Author of Plagues and Peoples, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

6. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The ideological origins of the American Revolution, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction, Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire

7. Philip MacDonald

   Author of The Rasp, Warrant for X, The Polferry Riddle

8. David Hackett Fischer

   Author of Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought, Champlain's dream, The Great Wave

9. Edmund S. Morgan

   Author of The Puritan Dilemma, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

10. Ellery Queen

    Author of Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective Crime Short Story As Revealed in the 106 Most Important Books Published in Th, In the Queen's Parlor

11. Jacques Barzun

    Author of The Modern Researcher, A catalogue of crime

12. Howard Haycraft

    Author of The Art of the Mystery Story, Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story

13. Linda Colley

    Author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850

14. J. G. A. Pocock

    Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century

15. Garrett Mattingly

    Author of The Armada

16. John Putnam Demos

    Author of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony

17. David Cannadine

    Author of Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

18. Francis M. Nevins

    Author of Royal Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective, The mystery writer's art

19. William Stuart Baring-Gould

    Author of Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective, Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street

20. H. R. F. Keating

    Author of Whodunit: A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction, Murder Must Appetize