Edward Miller FBA (16 July 1915 – 21 December 2000) was a British historian, who served as Master of Fitzwilliam College between 1971 and 1981.
[1] During this time, Miller oversaw a significant expansion of the college and was constantly active in the governance of the University of Cambridge.
Having grown up on a farm,[citation needed] he was drawn to questions of medieval agriculture and the peasants whose labour had sustained the clergy.
He was warden of the Institute of Continuing Education in the early 1960s, before taking a professorship in medieval history at the University of Sheffield between 1965 and 1971.
[1] In 1971, Miller returned to Cambridge as the Master of Fitzwilliam College, a position in which he remained for ten years.