John Nowell Linton Myres FBA FSA CBE (27 December 1902 – 25 September 1989) was a British archaeologist and Bodley's Librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford from 1948 until his resignation in 1965; and librarian of Christ Church before his Bodleian appointment.
His father, John, had been Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at Oxford.
Nowell Myres was educated at Winchester College and then New College, Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society in 1923.
[2][3] He was recognised as a leading authority on British history in the time of the Anglo Saxons and earlier.
He and R. G. Collingwood wrote the first volume of the Oxford History of England which was widely recognised as a classic.