W. N. Medlicott

William Norton Medlicott (11 May 1900 – 7 October 1987) was a British historian.

He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, University College London and the Institute of Historical Research.

In 1926 Medlicott took up a post at University College, Swansea and in 1936 he married Dorothy Kathleen Coveney. Medlicott worked at the Board of Trade for the first year of the Second World War before being selected by Sir Keith Hancock to be a member of the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Medlicott published the results of his research in his two-volume work The Economic Blockade.

Works The Congress of Berlin and After (London: Methuen, 1938; 2nd ed. 1963). British Foreign Policy since Versailles (London: Methuen, 1940; 2nd ed. 1968). The Economic Blockade: Volume I (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1952). Volume II (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1959). Bismarck, Gladstone and the Concert of Europe (London: University of London Athlone Press, 1956). The Coming of War in 1939 (London: George Routledge and Kegan Paul for The Historical Association, 1963). Bismarck and Modern Germany (London: The English Universities Press, 1965). Contemporary England, 1914–1964 (London: Longmans, 1967). Britain and Germany: The Search for an Agreement (London: University of London Athlone Press, 1969).