Herbert Enoch Hallam, FAHA (1923–1993) was an English-born historian who spent most of his academic career in Australia.
He grew up in the midlands of England, where he attended Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School with support from a scholarship.
After serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Hallam went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, to read medieval history.
In the meantime, he completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham,[1] which was awarded in 1957 for his thesis "The Lincolnshire Fenland in the Early Middle Ages: A Social and Economic History";[2] this examined the reclamation of England's medieval Fens.
[1] He published his findings firstly as the pamphlet The New Lands of Elloe in 1954, and then as the book Settlement and Society: A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire in 1965.