Creighton Lecture
Creighton Lecture is an annual series of lectures or lectures established in 1907 by King's College London .
It is named in honor of the historian Mandel Creighton (1843–1901) and deals with a wide variety of historical topics. The lecturer is appointed by the college on an annual basis. The office was initially endowed with £ 650; half of the amount came from the college and half from Louise Creighton (1850–1936), widow of the honoree.
Lecturers
- 1907 Thomas Hodgkin - The wardens of the northern marches
- 1908 George Walter Prothero - The arrival of Napoleon III.
- 1909 John Bagnell Bury - The Constitution of the later Roman Empire
- 1910 Francis John Haverfield - Greek an d Roman town-planning
- 1911 Herbert Fisher - Political Unions
- 1912 Paul Vinogradoff - Constitutional history and the "year books"
- 1913 Richard Haldane - The meaning of truth in history
- 1914 James Bryce - Race sentiment as a factor in history
- 1915 John William Fortescue - England at war in three centuries
- 1916 Albert Frederick Pollard - The growth of an imperial parliament
- 1917 Charles Harding Firth - Then and now, or a comparison between the war with Napoleon and the present war
- 1918 Gilbert Murray - Aristophanes and the war party
- 1919 George Macaulay Trevelyan - The war and the European revolution in relation to history
- 1920 Thomas Frederick Tout - England and France in the 14th century and now
- 1921 Julian Corbett - Napoleon and the British Navy after Trafalgar
- 1922 Charles Oman - Historical Pespective
- 1923 George Peabody Gooch - Franco-German relations, 1867–1914
- 1924 William Searle Holdsworth - The influence of the legal profession on the growth of the English Constitution
- 1925 Graham Wallas - Bentham as political inventor
- 1926 Charles Walworth Alvord - The significance of the new interpretation of Georgian politics
- 1927 Charles Grant Robertson - History and Citizenship
- 1928 Robert William Seton-Watson - A plea for the study of contemporary history
- 1929 Ernest Barker - Political ideas in Boston during the American Revolution
- 1930 Henri Pirenne - La révolution belge de 1830
- 1931 Edward Jenks - History and historical novel
- 1932 Frederick Maurice Powicke - Pope Boniface III.
- 1933 Norman Hepburn Baynes - The Byzantine imperial idea
- 1934 Arthur Perceval Newton - The West Indies in international politics
- 1935 Frank Merry Stenton - The road system of medieval England
- 1936 Charles Peers - History in the making
- 1937 Richard Henry Tawney - The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the civil war
- 1938 John Harold Clapham - Charles Louis, elector palatine 1617–1680
- Failed in 1939
- Failed in 1940
- Failed in 1941
- Failed in 1942
- Failed in 1943
- Failed in 1944
- 1945 failed
- 1946 Charles K. Webster - The making of the charter of the United Nations
- 1947 Arnold J. Toynbee - The unification of the world and the change in historical perspective
- 1948 George Norman Clark - The cycle of war and peace in modern history
- 1949 Vivian Hunter Galbraith - Historical research in medieval England
- 1950 John Ernest Neale - The Elizabethan age
- 1951 Ernest Fraser Jacob - Henry Chichele and the ecclesiastical politics of his age
- 1952 Lewis Namier - Basis factors in the 19th century European history
- 1953 Theodore Frank Plucknett - The mediaeval Bailiff
- 1954 Hugh Hale Bellot - Woodrow Wilson
- 1955 Keith Hancock - The Smuts Papers
- 1956 Michael Clive Knowles - Cardinal Gasquet as an historian
- 1957 John Goronwy Edwards - The commons in medieval English Parliaments
- 1958 Lucy Stuart Sutherland - The City of London and the opposition to government 1768–74
- 1959 Steven Runciman - The families of Outremer
- 1960 Lillian Penson - Foreign affairs under the 3rd Marquis of Salisbury
- 1961 Herbert Butterfield - Charles James Cox and Napoleon
- 1962 Reginald Ralph Darlington - The Norman Conquest
- 1963 Ronald Syme - Caesar
- 1964 Robert Arthur Humphreys - Tradition and revolt in Latin America
- 1965 Michael Roberts - On aristocratic constitutionalism in Swedish history
- 1966 Richard William Southern - England and the continent in the 12th century
- 1967 Arnold Hugh Martin Jones - The caste system in the later Roman Empire
- 1968 William Norton Medlicott - Britain and Germany
- 1969 Ernst Gombrich - Myth and reality in German wartime broadcasts
- 1970 Philip Grierson - The origins of money
- 1971 Isaiah Berlin - George Sorel
- 1972 Cyril Henry Philips - The young Wellington in India
- 1973 Alan JP Taylor - The second world war
- 1974 Frederick Jack Fisher - Labor in the economy of Stuart England
- 1975 Owen Chadwick - Acton and Gladstone
- 1976 Anthony Blunt - Illusionism in baroque architecture
- 1977 Michael Moïssey Postan - The English rural laborer in the later middle ages
- 1978 Joel Hurstfield - The illusion of power in Tudor politics
- 1979 Joseph Needham - The guns of Kaifeng-fu
- 1980 Arnaldo Momigliano - The origins of universal history
- 1981 Michael Howard - The causes of wars
- 1982 Ragnhild Hatton - The Anglo-Hanoverian connection
- 1983 Keith Thomas - The perception of the past in early modern England
- 1984 William G. Beasley - The nature of Japanese imperialism
- 1985 Maurice Hugh Keen - Some late medieval views on nobility
- 1986 James Henderson Burns - Absolutism
- 1987 Ernst Heinrich Kossmann - 1787
- 1988 Henry Royston Loyn - The "matter" of Britain
- 1989 Donald Cuthbert Coleman - Myth, history and the industrial revolution
- 1990 Douglas Johnson Occupation and collaboration
- 1991 John Huxtable Elliott - Illusion and disillusionment
- 1992 Ian Nish - The uncertainties of isolation
- 1993 Eric Hobsbawm - The present as history
- 1994 Peter James Marshall - Imperial Britain
- 1995 James Campbell - European economic development in the 11th century
- 1996 Averil Cameron - Byzantium
- 1997 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - The history of the book in France
- 1998 Peter Clarke - The rise and fall of Thatcherism
- 1999 John Gillingham - Civilizing the English?
- 2000 Jessica Rawson - The power of images
- 2001 Shula Marks - Class, culture and consciousness
- 2002 Patrick Collinson - Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history
- 2003 JGA Pocock - The politics of historiography
- 2004 Robert Ian Moore - The war against heresy in medieval Europe
- 2005 Robert F. Foster - Changed utterly
- 2006 Olwen Hufton - Faith, hope and money
- 2007 Robert JW Evans - The Creighton century
- 2008 Chris Wickham - Medieval Assembly
- 2009 Robert Service - Russia since 1917 in Western mirrors
- 2010 Tim Blanning - The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
- 2011 Catherine Hall - Macaulay and Son
- 2012 Quentin Skinner - John Milton as a theorist of liberty
- 2013 Lisa Jardine - Meeting my own history coming back
- 2014 Richard J. Evans - What is the “final solution” unique?
literature
- Robert JW Evans: The Creighton Century. British historians and Europe . In: Historical Research , Vol. 82 (2009), pp. 320-329, ISSN 1468-2281
Web links
- Creighton Lecture at the Institute of Historical Research