Nigel Saul (born 1952[1]) is a British academic who was formerly the Head of the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL).
The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century (1981), and The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (1997).
His major biography Richard II (1997) was the product of ten years' work and was acclaimed by P. D. James as "unlikely to be surpassed in scholarship, comprehensiveness, or in the biographer's insight into his subject's character".
His English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages: History and Representation (2009) earned wide praise as a successful attempt to tackle the subject from a historical perspective.
Saul served as Honorary President of Royal Holloway's Conservative Future Society.