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About W. N. Medlicott
- William Norton Medlicott (11 May 1900 – 7 October 1987) was a British historian. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, University College London and the Institute of Historical Research.In 1926 Medlicott took up a post at University College, Swansea and in 1936 he married Dorothy Kathleen Coveney.
- Medlicott worked at the Board of Trade for the first year of the Second World War before being selected by Sir Keith Hancock to be a member of the Cabinet Office Historical Section.
- Medlicott published the results of his research in his two-volume work The Economic Blockade.From 1945 to 1953 he was Professor of History at the University College of the South-West and in 1953 he was elected to the Stevenson Chair of International History at the University of London.
- Medlicott succeeded in transforming it into the largest and most successful department of its type in Britain.
- In his works he sought to interpret twentieth-century international relations in relation to strategic and economic factors.In 1968 he was appointed to deliver the Creighton Lecture, published a year later as Britain and Germany: The Search for an Agreement.
- He was also secretary and president of the Historical Association for six years and was prominent in the Royal Institute of International Affairs. After a proposal from Donald Read, the Medlicott Medal was established in 1985 to recognise services to history.
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