Henry Halford Vaughan (1811-85) was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, 1848-58. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Papers of H.H. Vaughan, including:

• Correspondence, 1833-1916
• Lectures as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, 1849-54
• Fragments and drafts of lectures and papers relating to attendance at Vaughan's lectures, 1850-7, n.d.
• Miscellaneous papers relating to university affairs and concerning Vaughan's resignation from the professorship, 1835-57
• Drafts and fair copies of an unfinished philosophical work, 1870-8
• Collections for Vaughan's New readings and renderings of Shakespeare's tragedies (3 vols., London, 1878-86)
• Papers of and concerning Sir John Vaughan, 1799-1841
• Exercise book containing copies of letters and papers of C.R. Prinsep, concerning property in Singapore and Tasmania, 1858-9
• Exercise book containing part of William Stubbs's inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, 1867

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 43083-143.

See also Lectures by H.H. Vaughan.

The papers were extensively used in E.G.W. Bill, University reform in nineteenth-century Oxford (Oxford, 1973)

History, Modern

Lectures and lecturing

Prinsep | Charles Robert | 1789-1864

Stubbs | William | 1825-1901 | Bishop of Oxford Historian

Vaughan | Henry Halford | 1811-1885 | Historian

Vaughan | John | 1769-1839 | Sir | Knight Judge

University of Oxford