Charles Harding Firth

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Charles Harding Firth (born March 16, 1857 in Sheffield , † February 19, 1936 in Oxford ) was a British historian.

Life

Firth came from a wealthy family of steel industrialists. He studied at Balliol College of Oxford University at William Stubbs , where she won the Stanhope prize for a historical essay. He graduated in 1878 and, despite very good grades, did not return until 1883 to pursue an academic career. Under the influence of Samuel Rawson Gardiner , he turned to 17th century history in Great Britain. In 1887 he became a lecturer at Pembroke College and in 1901 a Fellow of All Souls College . In 1904 he was appointed as the successor to Frederick York Powell Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

He dealt primarily with the English Civil War and the reign of Oliver Cromwell , like his colleague Samuel Rawson Gardiner, whose story of the Civil War he completed. In particular, he examined Parliament and Cromwell's army during the Civil War.

Like his friend Thomas Frederick Tout in Manchester, he tried to professionalize the study of history in Oxford and to promote precise study of sources, but encountered resistance in the university administration, which saw the priority in the training of future elites in Great Britain.

In 1903 he became a Fellow of the British Academy . From 1913 to 1917 he was President of the Royal Historical Society and he was President of the Historical Association (1906 to 1910 and 1918 to 1920). He has made contributions to The Cambridge Modern History and many contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography . He helped found the English Historical Review (1886) and edited the History of England by Macaulay .

In 1922 he was ennobled.

Fonts

  • Oliver Cromwell and the rule of the Puritans in England , 1900, [1]
  • Cromwell's Army: A History of the English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate , 1902 (Ford Lectures in Oxford 1900/1901), [2]
  • The last years of the Protectorate, 1656-1658 , 1909, 2 volumes (completion of Gardiner's history), v.1 v.2
  • The House Of Lords During The Civil War , 1910, [3]
  • Life of the Duke of Newcastle , 1886
  • Scotland and the Commonwealth. Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland, from August 1651 to December, 1653 , 1895, [4]
  • Scotland and the Protectorate. Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659 , 1899, [5]
  • The narrative of General Venables , with an appendix of papers relating to the expedition to the West Indies and the conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655 , 1900, [6]
  • The memoirs of Edmund Ludlow , lieutenant-general of the horse in the army of the commonwealth of England, 1625-1672 , 2 volumes, 1894, v.1 v.2 (the book was considered an authentic source for a long time, until the 1970s the original manuscript emerged (now the Bodleian Library) showing that the book was heavily falsified by the editors)
  • Editor: The Clarke papers. Selections from the papers of William Clarke, secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the commanders of the army in Scotland, 1651-1660 , 4 volumes ( Camden Society ), 1891, 1901
  • Publisher: Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson , 1885
  • Notes on the diplomatic relations of England and France 1603-1688; lists of ambassadors from England to France and from France to England , 1906 [7]
  • Papers relating to Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford , 1890, [8]
  • Stuart tracts, 1603-1693 , 1903, [9]
  • Naval songs and ballads , 1908, [10]
  • Milton as an historian , 1908, [11]
  • The School of English Language and Literature, a contribution to the history of Oxford studies , 1909, [12]
  • English history in English poetry, from the French revolution to the death of Queen Victoria , 1911, [13]
  • John Bunyan , 1911, [14]
  • Editor: An American garland, being a collection of ballads relating to America, 1563-1759 , 1915, [15]

literature

  • Mark Nixon, The Literary Encyclopedia 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blair Worden Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil War and the Passions of Posterity , Penguin Books 2002. The book first appeared in three volumes in 1698/99, publisher was probably John Toland .
personal data
SURNAME Firth, Charles Harding
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1936
Place of death Oxford