Christopher Thomas Atkinson (born on 6 September 1874 - died 18 February 1964) was the preeminent tutor for British military history at the University of Oxford in the first half of the twentieth century.
Three years later, the university appointed an additional tutor to assist in a special subject on military history, focusing on the Napoleonic Wars.
The study improved on the previous special subject by including more political material and staying away from narrowly conceived approaches to military history.
He remained at Exeter for his entire career, except for wartime service between 1914 and 1918, when he served as an Army Captain in the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) in Whitehall Garden, London.
On 27 January 1915, Atkinson and Julian Corbett were formally appointed to begin collecting material for an official history of the war.
"[9] He was a long-time member of the Navy Records Society (NRS), where he became involved in his Oxford colleague S. R. Gardiner in completing his series of edited volumes on the First Anglo-Dutch War between 1898 and 1930.