Creighton Lecture

Creighton Lecture ist eine jährlich stattfindende Reihe von Vorlesungen bzw. Vorträgen, die 1907 vom King’s College London eingerichtet wurde.

Sie ist zu Ehren des Historikers Mandel Creighton (1843–1901) benannt und beschäftigt sich mit den verschiedensten geschichtswissenschaftlichen Themen. Der Lecturer wird durch das College im jährlichen Wechsel berufen. Das Amt war anfangs mit £ 650 dotiert; der Betrag stammte jeweils zur Hälfte vom College und von Louise Creighton (1850–1936), der Witwe des Geehrten.

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
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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 J. P. Taylor – The second world war
1974 Frederick Jack Fisher – Labour 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 labourer 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 andconsciousness
2002 Patrick Collinson – Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history
2003 J. G. A. 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 J. W. 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 – Was the „final solution“ unique?

Literatur

Robert J. W. Evans: The Creighton Century. British historians and Europe. In: Historical Research, Bd. 82 (2009), S. 320–329, ISSN 1468-2281

Weblinks

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