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en-wikipedia-org-8076		Anthony Birley - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1217	177	62	Anthony Richard Birley FSA (8 October 1937 – 19 December 2020)[1] was a British ancient historian, archaeologist and academic. He was the son of the archaeologist Eric Birley, who bought the house next to Vindolanda where Anthony and his brother Robin began to excavate the site. He studied classics at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1960.[1] He remained at the University of Oxford, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1966: his doctoral thesis was titled "The Roman high command from the death of Hadrian to the death of Caracalla, with particular attention to the Danubian wars of M. Birley remained at the University of Oxford with a Craven Fellowship from 1960 to 1962, and was then a research fellow at the University of Birmingham.[1] He moved to the University of Leeds as a lecturer, and was later promoted to Reader.[3] He was the Professor of Ancient History at the Victoria University of Manchester (1974–1990) and additionally at University of Düsseldorf (1990–2002).[4] He was an Honorary Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham.[3]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8076.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8076.txt