Francis John Haverfield (1860–1919) was a British historian and archaeologist. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Educated at the University of Oxford, he also worked under Theodor Mommsen. In 1907 he became Camden professor of ancient history at Oxford. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817–1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar and historian, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. ...

Haverfield was the first to undertake a scientific study of Roman Britain and he is considered by some to be the first theorist to tackle the issue of the Romanization of the Roman empire. His works include The Romanization of Roman Britain (1905), Ancient Town Planning (1913), and The Roman Occupation of Britain (1924), many monographs, and the authoritative chapters he contributed to the Victoria History of the Counties of England. Romanizantion was a gradual process of cultural assimilation, in which the conquered barbarians (non-Greco-Romans) gradually adopted and largely replaced their own native culture (which in many cases were quite developed, like the culture of the Gauls or Carthage) by the culture of their conquerors - the Romans. ...

Among his students was the archaeologist and topographer Thomas Ashby, the first director of the British School at Rome as well as the Oxford historian, archeologist, and philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), the only surviving pupil of Haverfield after World War I. (Born: 1874 in Staines, England; died 1931, London) Archaeologist and architectural historian of ancient Rome. ... The British School at Rome was established in 1901 and granted a Royal Charter in 1912 as an educational institute culminating the study of awarded British scholars in the fields of archaeology, literature, music, and history of Rome and Italy of every period, and for the study of the fine... Robin George Collingwood (February 22, 1889 - January 9, 1943), British philosopher and historian. ...