What did British historian Agnes Headlam-Morley achieve in 1948?

In October 1948, she was appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, which made her the first woman to be appointed a chair at the University of Oxford. She specialised in Anglo-German relations and diplomatic history. She belonged to the traditional school of international relations in which the subject was considered a subfield of history and not a social science. In 1971, she stepped down from the chair and retired from full-time academia.

In 1948, Headlam-Morley was made an honorary fellow of Somerville College, Oxford (her alma mater). She was made an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1970; the year before her retirement.