Creighton Lecture

List of Creighton Lectures

1907-49

• 1907 Thomas Hodgkin, The Wardens of the Northern Marches
• 1908 G. W. Prothero, ‘The arrival of Napoleon III’
• 1909 J. B. Bury, The Constitution of the Later Roman Empire
• 1910 F. J. Haverfield, ‘Greek and Roman town-planning’; expanded into his Ancient Town-Planning
• 1911 H. A. L. Fisher, Political Unions
• 1912 Paul Vinogradoff, ‘Constitutional history and the year books’, Law Quarterly Review, xxix, 273–84
• 1913 R. B. Haldane,
• 1914 James Bryce, Race Sentiment as a Factor in History
• 1915 J. W. Fortescue, ‘England at war in three centuries’
• 1916 A. F. Pollard, ‘The growth of an imperial parliament’, History, i, 129–46
• 1917 C. H. Firth, Then and Now, or a Comparison between the War with Napoleon and the Present War
• 1918 Gilbert Murray, Aristophanes and the War Party: a Study in the Contemporary Criticism of the Peloponnesian War
• 1919 G. M. Trevelyan, The War and the European Revolution in Relation to History
• 1920 T. F. Tout, ‘England and France in the 14th century and now’; expanded into his France and England: their Relations in the Middle Ages and Now
• 1921 Julian Corbett, ‘Napoleon and the British Navy after Trafalgar’, Quarterly Review, ccxxxvii, 238–55
• 1922 Charles Oman, ‘Historical perspective’; cf. his On the Writing of History, pp. 76ff.
• 1923 G. P. Gooch, Franco-German Relations, 1867–1914
• 1924 W. S. Holdsworth, The Influence of the Legal Profession on the Growth of the English Constitution
• 1925 Graham Wallas, ‘Bentham as political inventor’, Contemporary Review, cxxix, 308–19
• 1926 C. W. Alvord, ‘The significance of the new interpretation of Georgian politics’
• 1927 C. Grant Robertson, History and Citizenship
• 1928 R. W. Seton-Watson, ‘A plea for the study of contemporary history’, History, xiv, 1–18
• 1929 ‘E. Barber’ , ‘Political ideas in Boston during the American Revolution’
• 1930 Henri Pirenne, ‘La révolution belge de 1830’
• 1931 Edward Jenks, ‘History and the historical novel’, The Hibbert Journal, Jan. 1932
• 1932 F. M. Powicke, ‘Pope Boniface VIII’, History, xviii, 307–29
• 1933 N. H. Baynes, ‘The Byzantine imperial ideal’
• 1934 A. P. Newton, ‘The West Indies in international politics, 1550–1850’, History, xix, 193–207, 302–10
• 1935 F. M. Stenton, ‘The road system of medieval England’, Economic History Review, vii, 1–21
• 1936 Charles Peers, ‘History in the making’, History, xxi, 302–16
• 1937 R. H. Tawney, ‘The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the civil war’; cf. his ‘Rise of the gentry, 1558–1640’, Economic History Review, xi, 1–38
• 1938 J. H. Clapham, ‘Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, 1617–80: an early experiment in liberalism’, Economica, new ser., vii, 381–96
• 1939–45 No lectures
• 1946 C. K. Webster, ‘The making of the charter of the United Nations’, History, xxxii, 16–38
• 1947 A. Toynbee, ‘The unification of the world and the change in historical perspective’, History, xxxiii, 1–28
• 1948 G. N. Clark, The Cycle of War and Peace in Modern History
• 1949 V. H. Galbraith, Historical Research in Medieval England

  1950-99

• 1950 J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan Age
• 1951 E. F. Jacob, Henry Chichele and the Ecclesiastical Politics of his Age
• 1952 Lewis Namier, Basic Factors in 19th-Century European History
• 1953 T. F. T. Plucknett, The Mediaeval Bailiff
• 1954 H. Hale Bellot, Woodrow Wilson
• 1955 Keith Hancock, The Smuts Papers
• 1956 M. D. Knowles, Cardinal Gasquet as an Historian
• 1957 J. G. Edwards, The Commons in Medieval English Parliaments
• 1958 Lucy S. Sutherland, The City of London and the Opposition to Government, 1768–74: a Study in the Rise of Metropolitan Radicalism
• 1959 Steven Runciman, The Families of Outremer: the Feudal Nobility of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1291
• 1960 Lillian Penson, Foreign Affairs under the Third Marquis of Salisbury
• 1961 Herbert Butterfield, Charles James Fox and Napoleon: the Peace Negotiations of 1806
• 1962 R. R. Darlington, The Norman Conquest
• 1963 Ronald Syme, ‘Caesar: drama, legend, personality’
• 1964 R. A. Humphreys, Tradition and Revolt in Latin America
• 1965 Michael Roberts, On Aristocratic Constitutionalism in Swedish History, 1520–1720
• 1966 R. W. Southern, ‘England and the continent in the twelfth century’; cf. his Medieval Humanism and Other Studies, pp. 135–57
• 1967 A. H. M. Jones, ‘The caste system in the later Roman empire’
• 1968 W. N. Medlicott, Britain and Germany: the Search for Agreement, 1930–7
• 1969 E. H. Gombrich, Myth and Reality in German War-time Broadcasts
• 1970 Philip Grierson, The Origins of Money
• 1971 Isaiah Berlin, ‘Georges Sorel ’, in Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr, ed. C. Abramsky, pp. 3–35
• 1972 C. H. Philips, The Young Wellington in India
• 1973 A. J. P. Taylor, The Second World War
• 1974 F. J. Fisher, ‘Labour in the economy of Stuart England’
• 1975 Owen Chadwick, Acton and Gladstone
• 1976 A. Blunt, ‘Illusionism in Baroque architecture’
• 1977 M. M. 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 Kaifêng-fu: China's Development of Man's First Chemical Explosive
• 1980 A. Momigliano, ‘The origins of universal history’, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, ser. 3, xii, 533–60
• 1981 Michael Howard, The Causes of Wars
• 1982 Ragnhild M. Hatton, The Anglo-Hanoverian Connection, 1714–60
• 1983 Keith Thomas, The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England
• 1984 William G. Beasley, The Nature of Japanese Imperialism
• 1985 M. H. Keen, Some Late Medieval Views on Nobility
• 1986 J. H. Burns, Absolutism: the History of an Idea
• 1987 E. H. Kossmann, 1787: the Collapse of the Patriot Movement and the Problem of Dutch Decline
• 1988 H. R. Loyn, The ‘Matter of Britain’: a Historian's Perspective
• 1989 D. C. Coleman, Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution
• 1990 Douglas Johnson, ‘Occupation and collaboration: the conscience of France’
• 1991 J. H. Elliott, Illusion and Disillusionment: Spain and the Indies
• 1992 Ian Nish, The Uncertainties of Isolation: Japan between the Wars
• 1993 E. J. Hobsbawm, The Present as History: Writing the History of One's Own Times
• 1994 P. J. Marshall, Imperial Britain
• 1995 James Campbell, ‘European economic development in the eleventh century: an English case-study’
• 1996 Averil Cameron, ‘Byzantium: why do we need it?’
• 1997 E. Le Roy Ladurie, ‘The History of the book in France, 1460–1970’
• 1998 Peter Clarke, ‘The rise and fall of Thatcherism’, Historical Research, lxxii, 301–22
• 1999 John Gillingham, ‘Civilizing the English? The English histories of William of Malmesbury and David Hume’, Historical Research, lxxiv, 17–43

  2000-present

• 2000 Jessica Rawson, ‘The power of images: the model universe of the First Emperor and its legacy’, Historical Research, lxxv, 123–54
• 2001 Shula Marks, ‘Class, culture and consciousness: the experience of Black South Africans, c.1870–1920’
• 2002 Patrick Collinson, ‘Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history’, Historical Research, lxxvi, 469–91
• 2003 J. G. A. Pocock, ‘The politics of historiography’, Historical Research, lxxviii, 1–14
• 2004 R. I. Moore, ‘The war against heresy in medieval Europe’, Historical Research, lxxxi, 189–210
• 2005 R. F. Foster, ‘Changed Utterly’? Transformation and continuity in late 20th-century Ireland’, Historical Research, lxxx, 419–41
• 2006 Olwen Hufton, ‘Faith, hope and money: the Jesuits and the genesis of educational fundraising, 1550–1650’
• 2007 R. J. W. Evans, 'The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907-2007'|
• 2008 Chris Wickham, 'Medieval Assembly : The culture of the public: Assembly politics and the feudal revolution.
• 2009 Robert Service, 'Russia since 1917 in Western mirrors'.
• 2010 Tim Blanning, 'The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation past and present'.
• 2011 Catherine Hall, 'Macaulay and Son: an imperial story'.
• 2012 Quentin Skinner, 'John Milton as a theorist of liberty'.
• 2013 Lisa Jardine, 'Meeting my own history coming back : Jacob Bronowski's MI5 files'.
• 2014 Richard J. Evans, 'Was the 'Final Solution' Unique? Reflections on Twentieth-Century Genocides'.
• 2015 Margaret MacMillan, 'The Outbreak of the First World War: Why the debate goes on'.
• 2016 John Darwin, 'The Globe, the Sea and the City: Port Cities and Globalisation in the long 19th Century'
• 2017 Miri Rubin, 'Strangers in Medieval Cities'
• 2018 Richard Vinen, 'When was Thatcherism?'
• 2019 ?
• 2020 ?
• 2021 ?
• 2022 ?
• 2023: J. Willgoose, Esq 'The Power of Archives'
• 2024: Clive Myrie, "A Conversation on History with Clive Myrie"