Keith Feiling

Keith Feiling (* 1884 as Keith Grahame Feiling ; † 1977 ) was an English historian of contemporary history .

life and career

Feiling was a son of Ernest Feiling and his wife Joan Barbara Hawkins. His education led him from Marlborough College ( Marlborough ) to Balliol College ( Oxford ).

In 1911 he was appointed tutor of history at Christ College and in 1928 he accepted a call from All Souls College (Oxford), where he was lecturer in contemporary history from 1946 to 1950 on the position of Chichele Professor of Modern History . He held his inaugural lecture there on February 1, 1947 and it was entitled "The study of the modern history of Great Britain, 1862-1946".

Honors

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• In 1954 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography on " Warren Hastings "

Works (selection)

• British foreign policy. 1660-1672 . New edition Cass, London 1969.
• England under the Tudors and Stuarts. 1485-1688 . OUP, Oxford 1963 (reprint of the London 1927 edition).
• A history of a Tory party. 1640-1714 . New edition Clarendon, Oxford 1965.
• A history of England. From the coming of the English to 1918 . 2nd edition Macmillan, London 1966.
• Italian policy since 1870 . OUP, Oxford 1914.
• The life of Neville Chamberlain, Macmillan, London 1970 (reprint of the London 1946 edition).
• The second Tory party. 1714-1832 . Macmillan, London 1959 (reprint of the London 1938 edition).
• The study of the modern history of Great Britain. 1862-1946 . OUP, Oxford 1947.
• Warren Hastings . Macmillan, London 1966 (reprint of the London 1954 edition).
• What is conservatism? Faber & Faber, London 1930.

literature

• Hugh Trevor-Roper (Ed.): Essays in British history presented to Sir Keith Feiling . Macmillan, London 1964 (commemorative publication on the occasion of his 80th birthday).