John Nowell Linton MyresFBA FSA CBE (27 December 1902 – 25 September 1989) was a British archaeologist andBodley's Librarian at theBodleian Library in Oxford from 1948 until his resignation in 1965; and librarian ofChrist Church before his Bodleian appointment.
His father,John, had beenWykeham Professor of Ancient History at Oxford. Nowell Myres was educated atWinchester College and thenNew College, Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society in 1923. He became a tutor at Christ Church from 1928. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1966.[1] He gave the 1970 Raleigh Lecture on History.[2][3]
He was recognised as a leading authority on British history in the time of the Anglo-Saxons and earlier. He andR. G. Collingwood wrote the first volume of theOxford History of England which was widely recognised as a classic. When the series was re-released in the 1980s this volume was split in two,Peter Salway writing what had been Collingwood's part and Myres rewriting his own part.[1]
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