Creighton Lecture
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The Creighton Lecture is an annual lecture delivered at King's College, London on a topic in history. The series, which memorializes historian and prelate Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton , was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship that was established around the time that the study...

, began in 1907 with a grant of £650, half of which was donated by his widow, Louise Creighton
Louise Creighton
Louise Hume Creighton, née von Glehn was a British author of books on historical and socio-political topics and an activist for greater role of women both within society and within the Church of England. In 1872, she married Mandell Creighton, later a historian and bishop in the Church of...

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List of Creighton Lectures

  • 1907 Thomas Hodgkin
    Thomas Hodgkin (historian)
    Thomas Hodgkin , British historian, son of John Hodgkin , barrister and Quaker minister, and Elizabeth Howard ....

    , The Wardens of the Northern Marches (pub. 1908)
  • 1908 G. W. Prothero
    George Walter Prothero
    Sir George Walter Prothero, KBE was an English writer and historian, and President of the Royal Historical Society....

    , ‘The arrival of Napoleon III’ [unpub.]
  • 1909 J. B. Bury
    J. B. Bury
    John Bagnell Bury , known as J. B. Bury, was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Byzantinist and philologist.-Biography:...

    , The Constitution of the Later Roman Empire (pub. 1910)
  • 1910 F. J. Haverfield
    Francis J. Haverfield
    Francis John Haverfield was a British historian and archaeologist.Educated at the University of Oxford, he also worked under Theodor Mommsen...

    , ‘Greek and Roman town-planning’; expanded into his Ancient Town-Planning (1913)
  • 1911 H. A. L. Fisher
    Herbert Fisher
    Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM, FRS, PC was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Board of Education in David Lloyd George's 1916 to 1922 coalition government....

    , Political Unions (pub. 1911)
  • 1912 Paul Vinogradoff
    Paul Vinogradoff
    Sir Paul Vinogradoff  November 1854, Kostroma, Russia– 19 December 1925, Paris, France) was a highly reputable Anglo-Russian historian-medievalist.-Career:...

    , ‘Constitutional history and the year books’, Law Quarterly Review, xxix (1913), 273–84
  • 1913 R. B. Haldane
    Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
    Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane KT, OM, PC, KC, FRS, FBA, FSA , was an influential British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were implemented...

    , The Meaning of Truth in History (pub. 1914)
  • 1914 James Bryce
    James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
    James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FBA was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

    , Race Sentiment as a Factor in History (pub. 1915)
  • 1915 J. W. Fortescue, ‘England at war in three centuries’ [unpub.?]
  • 1916 A. F. Pollard, ‘The growth of an imperial parliament’, History, i (1916–17), 129–46
  • 1917 C. H. Firth, Then and Now, or a Comparison between the War with Napoleon and the Present War (pub. 1917)
  • 1918 Gilbert Murray, Aristophanes and the War Party: a Study in the Contemporary Criticism of the Peloponnesian War (pub. 1919)
  • 1919 G. M. Trevelyan, The War and the European Revolution in Relation to History (pub. 1920)
  • 1920 T. F. Tout, ‘England and France in the 14th century and now’; expanded into his France and England: their Relations in the Middle Ages and Now (1922)
  • 1921 Julian Corbett, ‘Napoleon and the British Navy after Trafalgar’, Quarterly Review, ccxxxvii (1922), 238–55
  • 1922 Charles Oman, ‘Historical perspective’; cf. his On the Writing of History (1939), pp. 76ff.
  • 1923 G. P. Gooch, Franco-German Relations, 1867–1914 (pub. 1923)
  • 1924 W. S. Holdsworth, The Influence of the Legal Profession on the Growth of the English Constitution (pub. 1924)
  • 1925 Graham Wallas, ‘Bentham as political inventor’, Contemporary Review, cxxix (1926), 308–19
  • 1926 C. W. Alvord, ‘The significance of the new interpretation of Georgian politics’ [unpub.?]
  • 1927 C. Grant Robertson, History and Citizenship (pub. 1928)
  • 1928 R. W. Seton-Watson, ‘A plea for the study of contemporary history’, History, xiv (1929–30), 1–18
  • 1929 ‘E. Barber’ [?= Ernest Barker], ‘Political ideas in Boston during the American Revolution’ [unpub.?]
  • 1930 Henri Pirenne, ‘La révolution belge de 1830’ [unpub.]
  • 1931 Edward Jenks, ‘History and the historical novel’, The Hibbert Journal, Jan. 1932
  • 1932 F. M. Powicke, ‘Pope Boniface VIII’, History, xviii (1933–4), 307–29
  • 1933 N. H. Baynes, ‘The Byzantine imperial ideal’ [unpub.?]
  • 1934 A. P. Newton, ‘The West Indies in international politics, 1550–1850’, History, xix (1934–5), 193–207, 302–10
  • 1935 F. M. Stenton, ‘The road system of medieval England’, Economic History Review, vii (1936–7), 1–21
  • 1936 Charles Peers, ‘History in the making’, History, xxi (1936–7), 302–16
  • 1937 R. H. Tawney, ‘The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the civil war’; cf. his ‘Rise of the gentry, 1558–1640’, Economic History Review, xi (1941), 1–38
  • 1938 J. H. Clapham, ‘Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, 1617–80: an early experiment in liberalism’, Economica, new ser., vii (1940), 381–96
  • [NO LECTURES 1939–45]
  • 1946 C. K. Webster, ‘The making of the charter of the United Nations’, History, xxxii (1947), 16–38
  • 1947 A. Toynbee, ‘The unification of the world and the change in historical perspective’, History, xxxiii (1948), 1–28
  • 1948 G. N. Clark, The Cycle of War and Peace in Modern History (pub. 1949)
  • 1949 V. H. Galbraith, Historical Research in Medieval England (pub. 1951)
  • 1950 J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan Age (pub. 1951)
  • 1951 E. F. Jacob, Henry Chichele and the Ecclesiastical Politics of his Age (pub. 1952)
  • 1952 Lewis Namier, Basic Factors in 19th-Century European History (pub. 1953)
  • 1953 T. F. T. Plucknett, The Mediaeval Bailiff (pub. 1954)
  • 1954 H. Hale Bellot, Woodrow Wilson (pub. 1955)
  • 1955 Keith Hancock, The Smuts Papers (pub. 1956)
  • 1956 M. D. Knowles, Cardinal Gasquet as an Historian (pub. 1957)
  • 1957 J. G. Edwards, The Commons in Medieval English Parliaments (pub. 1958)
  • 1958 Lucy S. Sutherland, The City of London and the Opposition to Government, 1768–74: a Study in the Rise of Metropolitan Radicalism (pub. 1959)
  • 1959 Steven Runciman, The Families of Outremer: the Feudal Nobility of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1291 (pub. 1960)
  • 1960 Lillian Penson, Foreign Affairs under the Third Marquis of Salisbury (pub. 1962)
  • 1961 Herbert Butterfield, Charles James Fox and Napoleon: the Peace Negotiations of 1806 (pub. 1962)
  • 1962 R. R. Darlington, The Norman Conquest (pub. 1963)
  • 1963 Ronald Syme, ‘Caesar: drama, legend, personality’ [unpub.?]
  • 1964 R. A. Humphreys, Tradition and Revolt in Latin America (pub. 1965)
  • 1965 Michael Roberts, On Aristocratic Constitutionalism in Swedish History, 1520–1720 (pub. 1966)
  • 1966 R. W. Southern, ‘England and the continent in the twelfth century’; cf. his Medieval Humanism and Other Studies (1970), pp. 135–57
  • 1967 A. H. M. Jones, ‘The caste system in the later Roman empire’ [unpub.?]
  • 1968 W. N. Medlicott, Britain and Germany: the Search for Agreement, 1930–7 (pub. 1969)
  • 1969 E. H. Gombrich, Myth and Reality in German War-time Broadcasts (pub. 1970)
  • 1970 Philip Grierson, The Origins of Money (pub. 1977)
  • 1971 Isaiah Berlin, ‘Georges Sorel [Harbinger of the Storm]’, in Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr, ed. C. Abramsky (1974), pp. 3–35
  • 1972 C. H. Philips, The Young Wellington in India (pub. 1973)
  • 1973 A. J. P. Taylor, The Second World War (pub. 1974)
  • 1974 F. J. Fisher, ‘Labour in the economy of Stuart England’ [unpub.]
  • 1975 Owen Chadwick, Acton and Gladstone (pub. 1976)
  • 1976 A. Blunt, ‘Illusionism in Baroque architecture’ [unpub.?]
  • 1977 M. M. Postan, ‘The English rural labourer in the later middle ages’ [unpub.]
  • 1978 Joel Hurstfield, The Illusion of Power in Tudor Politics (pub. 1979)
  • 1979 Joseph Needham, The Guns of Kaifêng-fu: China’s Development of Man’s First Chemical Explosive (pub. 1979)
  • 1980 A. Momigliano, ‘The origins of universal history’, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, ser. 3, xii (1982), 533–60
  • 1981 Michael Howard, The Causes of Wars (pub. 1981)
  • 1982 Ragnhild M. Hatton, The Anglo-Hanoverian Connection, 1714–60 (pub. 1983)
  • 1983 Keith Thomas, The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England (pub. 1983)
  • 1984 William G. Beasley
    William G. Beasley
    William Gerard Beasley CBE FBA was a British academic, author, editor, translator and Japanologist. He was Emeritus Professor of the History of the Far East at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University.-Career:...

    , The Nature of Japanese Imperialism (pub. 1985)
  • 1985 M. H. Keen, Some Late Medieval Views on Nobility (pub. 1985)
  • 1986 J. H. Burns, Absolutism: the History of an Idea (pub. 1986)
  • 1987 E. H. Kossmann, 1787: the Collapse of the Patriot Movement and the Problem of Dutch Decline (pub. 1988)
  • 1988 H. R. Loyn, The ‘Matter of Britain’: a Historian’s Perspective (pub. 1989)
  • 1989 D. C. Coleman, Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution (pub. 1989)
  • 1990 Douglas Johnson, ‘Occupation and collaboration: the conscience of France’ [unpub.?]
  • 1991 J. H. Elliott, Illusion and Disillusionment: Spain and the Indies (pub. 1992)
  • 1992 Ian Nish
    Ian Nish
    Ian Hill Nish CBE is a British academic, a specialist in Japanese studies, and Emeritus Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science ....

    , The Uncertainties of Isolation: Japan between the Wars (pub. 1993)
  • 1993 E. J. Hobsbawm, The Present as History: Writing the History of One’s Own Times (pub. 1993)
  • 1994 P. J. Marshall, Imperial Britain (pub. 1994)
  • 1995 James Campbell, ‘European economic development in the eleventh century: an English case-study’ [unpub.?]
  • 1996 Averil Cameron, ‘Byzantium: why do we need it?’ [unpub.?]
  • 1997 E. Le Roy Ladurie, ‘The History of the book in France, 1460–1970’ [unpub.?]
  • 1998 Peter Clarke, ‘The rise and fall of Thatcherism’, Historical Research, lxxii (1999), 301–22
  • 1999 John Gillingham, ‘Civilizing the English? The English histories of William of Malmesbury and David Hume’, Historical Research, lxxiv (2001), 17–43
  • 2000 Jessica Rawson, ‘The power of images: the model universe of the First Emperor and its legacy’, Historical Research, lxxv (2002), 123–54
  • 2001 Shula Marks, ‘Class, culture and consciousness: the experience of Black South Africans, c.1870–1920’ [unpub.?]
  • 2002 Patrick Collinson, ‘Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history’, Historical Research, lxxvi (2003), 469–91
  • 2003 J. G. A. Pocock, ‘The politics of historiography’, Historical Research, lxxviii (2005), 1–14
  • 2004 R. I. Moore, ‘The war against heresy in medieval Europe’, Historical Research, lxxxi (2008), 189–210
  • 2005 R. F. Foster, ‘Changed Utterly’? Transformation and continuity in late 20th-century Ireland’, Historical Research, lxxx (2007), 419–41
  • 2006 Olwen Hufton, ‘Faith, hope and money: the Jesuits and the genesis of educational fundraising, 1550–1650’ (Historical Research, lxxxi (2008), 585–609)
  • 2007 R. J. W. Evans, 'The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907–2007'|(Historical Research, lxxxii (2009), 320–329)
  • 2008
  • 2009

See also

  • Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History
    Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History
    The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Cambridge.Lord Mayor of London in the 16th century, Sir Wolstan Dixie, left funds to found both scholarships and fellowships at Emmanuel College, Cambridge...

  • Merton College, Oxford
    Merton College, Oxford
    Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to...

  • Bishop of London
    Bishop of London
    The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 458 km² of 17 boroughs of Greater London north of the River Thames and a small part of the County of Surrey...

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