Creighton Lecture

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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

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