The Creighton Lecture is an annual lecture delivered at

King's College, London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

on a topic in history. The series, which memorializes historian and prelate

Mandell Creighton Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the ...

, began in 1907 with a grant of £650, half of which was donated by his widow,

Louise Creighton Louise Hume Creighton (née von Glehn; 7 July 1850 – 15 April 1936) was a British author of books on historical and sociopolitical topics, and an activist for a greater representation of women in society, including women's suffrage, and in t ...

List of Creighton Lectures

*1907

Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Hodgkin RMS (17 August 1798 – 5 April 1866) was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, ...

, The Wardens of the Northern Marches (published 1908) *1908 G. W. Prothero, ‘The arrival of Napoleon III’ npublished*1909

J. B. Bury John Bagnell Bury (; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his ''Lat ...

, The Constitution of the Later Roman Empire (published 1910) *1910 F. J. Haverfield, ‘Greek and Roman town-planning’; expanded into his Ancient Town-Planning (1913) *1911

H. A. L. Fisher Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher H.A.L. Fisher: ''A History of Europe, Volume II: From the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to 1935'', Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1984, p. i. (21 March 1865 – 18 April 1940) was an English historian, educator, a ...

, Political Unions (published 1911) *1912

Paul Vinogradoff Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff (russian: Па́вел Гаври́лович Виногра́дов, transliterated: ''Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov''; 18 November 1854 Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe, (O.S.)19 D ...

, ‘Constitutional history and the year books’, Law Quarterly Review, xxix (1913), 273–84 *1913

R. B. Haldane Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, (; 30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928) was a British lawyer and philosopher and an influential Liberal and later Labour politician. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during wh ...

The Meaning of Truth in History
(published 1914) *1914 James Bryce, Race Sentiment as a Factor in History (published 1915) *1915 J. W. Fortescue, ‘England at war in three centuries’ npublished?*1916

A. F. Pollard Albert Frederick Pollard, FBA (16 December 1869 – 3 August 1948) was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Life and career Pollard was born in Ryde o ...

, ‘The growth of an imperial parliament’, History, i (1916–17), 129–46 *1917 C. H. Firth, Then and Now, or a Comparison between the War with Napoleon and the Present War (published 1917) *1918

Gilbert Murray George Gilbert Aimé Murray (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece ...

, Aristophanes and the War Party: a Study in the Contemporary Criticism of the Peloponnesian War (published 1919) *1919

G. M. Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the ...

, The War and the European Revolution in Relation to History (published 1920) *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 (1922) *1921

Julian Corbett Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (12 November 1854 at Walcot House, Kennington Road, Lambeth – 21 September 1922 at Manor Farm, Stopham, Pulborough, Sussex) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and ear ...

, ‘Napoleon and the British Navy after Trafalgar’, Quarterly Review, ccxxxvii (1922), 238–55 *1922

Charles Oman Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, (12 January 1860 – 23 June 1946) was a British Military history, military historian. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. ...

, ‘Historical perspective’; cf. his On the Writing of History (1939), pp. 76ff. *1923

G. P. Gooch George Peabody Gooch (21 October 1873 – 31 August 1968) was a British journalist, historian and Liberal Party politician. A follower of Lord Acton who was independently wealthy, he never held an academic position, but knew the work of histo ...

, Franco-German Relations, 1867–1914 (published 1923) *1924 W. S. Holdsworth, The Influence of the Legal Profession on the Growth of the English Constitution (published 1924) *1925

Graham Wallas Graham Wallas (31 May 1858 – 9 August 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Biography Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Walla ...

, ‘Bentham as political inventor’, Contemporary Review, cxxix (1926), 308–19 *1926 C. W. Alvord, ‘The significance of the new interpretation of Georgian politics’ npublished?*1927 C. Grant Robertson, History and Citizenship (published 1928) *1928 R. W. Seton-Watson, ‘A plea for the study of contemporary history’, History, xiv (1929–30), 1–18 *1929 ‘E. Barber’ = Ernest Barker ‘Political ideas in Boston during the American Revolution’ npublished?*1930

Henri Pirenne Henri Pirenne (; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made a lasting contributio ...

, ‘La révolution belge de 1830’ npublished*1931 Edward Jenks, ‘History and the historical novel’, The Hibbert Journal, Jan. 1932 *1932 F. M. Powicke, ‘Pope Boniface VIII’, History, xviii (1933–4), 307–29 *1933 N. H. Baynes, ‘The Byzantine imperial ideal’ npublished?*1934 A. P. Newton, ‘The West Indies in international politics, 1550–1850’, History, xix (1934–5), 193–207, 302–10 *1935

F. M. Stenton Sir Frank Merry Stenton, FBA (17 May 1880 – 15 September 1967) was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon England, and president of the Royal Historical Society (1937–1945). The son of Henry Stenton of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, he was educ ...

, ‘The road system of medieval England’, Economic History Review, vii (1936–7), 1–21 *1936 Charles Peers, ‘History in the making’, History, xxi (1936–7), 302–16 *1937

R. H. Tawney Richard Henry Tawney (30 November 1880 – 16 January 1962) was an English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist,Noel W. Thompson. ''Political economy and the Labour Party: the economics of democratic socialism, 1884-2005''. 2nd ...

, ‘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 (1941), 1–38 *1938 J. H. Clapham, ‘Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, 1617–80: an early experiment in liberalism’, Economica, new ser., vii (1940), 381–96 *1939–45 No lectures *1946 C. K. Webster, ‘The making of the charter of the United Nations’, History, xxxii (1947), 16–38 *1947 A. Toynbee, ‘The unification of the world and the change in historical perspective’, History, xxxiii (1948), 1–28 *1948

G. N. Clark Sir George Norman Clark, (27 February 1890 – 6 February 1979) was an English historian, academic and British Army officer. He was the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford from 1931 to 1943 and the Regius Profes ...

, The Cycle of War and Peace in Modern History (published 1949) *1949

V. H. Galbraith Vivian Hunter Galbraith (15 December 1889 – 25 November 1976) was an English historian, fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History. Early career Galbraith was born in Sheffield, son of David Galbraith, ...

, Historical Research in Medieval England (published 1951) *1950 J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan Age (published 1951) *1951

E. F. Jacob Ernest Fraser Jacob (12 September 1894 – 7 October 1971) was a British medievalist and scholar who was President of the Chetham Society, Lancashire Parish Register Society and Ecclesiastical History Society. Education He was educated at Tw ...

, Henry Chichele and the Ecclesiastical Politics of his Age (published 1952) *1952

Lewis Namier Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (; 27 June 1888 – 19 August 1960) was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were ''The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III'' (1929), ''England in the Age of the Ameri ...

, Basic Factors in 19th-Century European History (published 1953) *1953 T. F. T. Plucknett, The Mediaeval Bailiff (published 1954) *1954 H. Hale Bellot, Woodrow Wilson (published 1955) *1955 Keith Hancock, The Smuts Papers (published 1956) *1956 M. D. Knowles, Cardinal Gasquet as an Historian (published 1957) *1957 J. G. Edwards, The Commons in Medieval English Parliaments (published 1958) *1958 Lucy S. Sutherland, The City of London and the Opposition to Government, 1768–74: a Study in the Rise of Metropolitan Radicalism (published 1959) *1959

Steven Runciman Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman ( – ), known as Steven Runciman, was an English historian best known for his three-volume ''A History of the Crusades'' (1951–54). He was a strong admirer of the Byzantine Empire. His history's negative ...

, The Families of Outremer: the Feudal Nobility of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1291 (published 1960) *1960

Lillian Penson Dame Lillian Margery Penson, DBE (18 July 1896 – 17 April 1963) was a professor of modern history at the University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public r ...

, Foreign Affairs under the Third Marquis of Salisbury (published 1962) *1961

Herbert Butterfield Sir Herbert Butterfield (7 October 1900 – 20 July 1979) was an English historian and philosopher of history, who was Regius Professor of Modern History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered chiefly for a shor ...

, Charles James Fox and Napoleon: the Peace Negotiations of 1806 (published 1962) *1962 R. R. Darlington, The Norman Conquest (published 1963) *1963

Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...

, ‘Caesar: drama, legend, personality’ npublished?*1964 R. A. Humphreys, Tradition and Revolt in Latin America (published 1965) *1965 Michael Roberts, On Aristocratic Constitutionalism in Swedish History, 1520–1720 (published 1966) *1966 R. W. Southern, ‘England and the continent in the twelfth century’; cf. his Medieval Humanism and Other Studies (1970), pp. 135–57 *1967

A. H. M. Jones Arnold Hugh Martin Jones FBA (9 March 1904 – 9 April 1970) (known as A. H. M. Jones or Hugo Jones) was a prominent 20th-century British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire. Biography Jones's best-known wor ...

, ‘The caste system in the later Roman empire’ npublished?*1968

W. N. Medlicott William Norton Medlicott (11 May 1900 – 7 October 1987) was a British historian. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, University College London and the Institute of Historical Research.''The Times'' (9 October 1987), p. 20. ...

, Britain and Germany: the Search for Agreement, 1930–7 (published 1969) *1969 E. H. Gombrich, Myth and Reality in German War-time Broadcasts (published 1970) *1970

Philip Grierson Philip Grierson, FBA (15 November 1910 – 15 January 2006) was a British historian and numismatist, emeritus professor of numismatics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College for over seventy years. During his long an ...

, The Origins of Money (published 1977) *1971

Isaiah Berlin Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks ...

, ‘Georges Sorel arbinger of the Storm��, in Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr, ed. C. Abramsky (1974), pp. 3–35 *1972 C. H. Philips, The Young Wellington in India (published 1973) *1973

A. J. P. Taylor Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his televis ...

, The Second World War (published 1974) *1974 F. J. Fisher, ‘Labour in the economy of Stuart England’ npublished*1975

Owen Chadwick William Owen Chadwick (20 May 1916 – 17 July 2015) was a British Anglican priest, academic, rugby international,A. Blunt, ‘Illusionism in Baroque architecture’ npublished?*1977 M. M. Postan, ‘The English rural labourer in the later middle ages’ npublished*1978

Joel Hurstfield Joel Hurstfield (4 November 1911 – 29 November 1980) was a British historian of the Tudor period.'Professor Joel Hurstfield', ''The Times'' (1 December 1980), p. 16. Early life and career He was educated at Owen's School in Islington'Correctio ...

, The Illusion of Power in Tudor Politics (published 1979) *1979

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, in ...

, The Guns of Kaifêng-fu: China's Development of Man's First Chemical Explosive (published 1979) *1980 A. Momigliano, ‘The origins of universal history’, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, ser. 3, xii (1982), 533–60 *1981

Michael Howard Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet posi ...

, The Causes of Wars (published 1981) *1982 Ragnhild M. Hatton, The Anglo-Hanoverian Connection, 1714–60 (published 1983) *1983 Keith Thomas, The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England (published 1983) *1984

William G. Beasley William Gerald Beasley (22 December 1919 – 19 November 2006) was a British academic, author, editor, translator and Japanologist. He was Emeritus Professor of the History of the Far East at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London Un ...

, The Nature of Japanese Imperialism (published 1985) *1985 M. H. Keen, Some Late Medieval Views on Nobility (published 1985) *1986 J. H. Burns, Absolutism: the History of an Idea (published 1986) *1987

E. H. Kossmann Ernst Heinrich Kossmann (31 January 1922 – 8 November 2003), often named as E. H. Kossmann in his books, was a Dutch historian. He was professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His magnum opus is ''The Low Co ...

, 1787: the Collapse of the Patriot Movement and the Problem of Dutch Decline (published 1988) *1988

H. R. Loyn Henry Royston Loyn (16 June 1922 – 9 October 2000), Fellow of the British Academy, FBA, was a British historian specialising in the history of Anglo-Saxon England. His eminence in his field made him a natural candidate to run the Sylloge of the ...

, The ‘Matter of Britain’: a Historian's Perspective (published 1989) *1989 D. C. Coleman, Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution (published 1989) *1990 Douglas Johnson, ‘Occupation and collaboration: the conscience of France’ npublished?*1991 J. H. Elliott, Illusion and Disillusionment: Spain and the Indies (published 1992) *1992

Ian Nish Ian Hill Nish Order of the British Empire, CBE (3 June 1926 – 31 July 2022) was a British academic. A specialist in Japanese studies, he was Emeritus Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (L ...

, The Uncertainties of Isolation: Japan between the Wars (published 1993) *1993 E. J. Hobsbawm, The Present as History: Writing the History of One's Own Times (published 1993) *1994

P. J. Marshall Peter James Marshall (born 1933 in Calcutta) is a British historian known for his work on the British Empire, particularly the activities of British East India Company servants in 18th-century Bengal, and also the history of British involvemen ...

, Imperial Britain (published 1994) *1995

James Campbell James Campbell may refer to: Academics * James Archibald Campbell (1862–1934), founder of Campbell University in North Carolina * James Marshall Campbell (1895–1977), dean of the college of arts and sciences at the Catholic University of Americ ...

, ‘European economic development in the eleventh century: an English case-study’ npublished?*1996

Averil Cameron Dame Averil Millicent Cameron ( Sutton; born 8 February 1940), often cited as A. M. Cameron, is a British historian. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, and the Warden of Keble College, Oxford ...

, ‘Byzantium: why do we need it?’ npublished?*1997 E. Le Roy Ladurie, ‘The History of the book in France, 1460–1970’ npublished?*1998 Peter Clarke, ‘The rise and fall of Thatcherism’, Historical Research, lxxii (1999), 301–22 *1999

John Gillingham John Bennett Gillingham (born 3 August 1940) is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. On 19 July 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Gillingham is renowned as an expert on ...

, ‘Civilizing the English? The English histories of William of Malmesbury and David Hume’, Historical Research, lxxiv (2001), 17–43 *2000

Jessica Rawson Dame Jessica Mary Rawson, (born 20 January 1943) is an English art historian, curator and sinologist. She is also an academic administrator, specialising in Chinese art. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden (head) of Merton C ...

, ‘The power of images: the model universe of the First Emperor and its legacy’, Historical Research, lxxv (2002), 123–54 *2001

Shula Marks Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA (born 14 October 1938, in Cape Town) is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. She has written at least seven books and a WHO monograph on Health and A ...

, ‘Class, culture and consciousness: the experience of Black South Africans, c.1870–1920’ npublished?*2002

Patrick Collinson Patrick "Pat" Collinson, (10 August 1929 – 28 September 2011) was an English historian, known as a writer on the Elizabethan era, particularly Elizabethan Puritanism. He was emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge ...

, ‘Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history’, Historical Research, lxxvi (2003), 469–91 *2003

J. G. A. Pocock John Greville Agard Pocock (; born 7 March 1924) is a historian of political thought from New Zealand. He is especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period (mostly in Europe, Britain, and America), his work on th ...

, ‘The politics of historiography’, Historical Research, lxxviii (2005), 1–14 *2004

R. I. Moore Robert Ian "Bob" Moore (born 1941), most commonly known as R. I. Moore, is a British historian who is Professor Emeritus of History at Newcastle University. He specialises in medieval history and has written several influential works on t ...

, ‘The war against heresy in medieval Europe’, Historical Research, lxxxi (2008), 189–210 *2005 R. F. Foster, ‘Changed Utterly’? Transformation and continuity in late 20th-century Ireland’, Historical Research, lxxx (2007), 419–41 *2006

Olwen Hufton Dame Olwen Hufton, (born 1938) is a British historian of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social history and of women's history. She is an expert on early modern, western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis on ...

, ‘Faith, hope and money: the Jesuits and the genesis of educational fundraising, 1550–1650’ (Historical Research, lxxxi (2008), 585–609) *2007 R. J. W. Evans, 'The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907–2007', (''Historical Research'', lxxxii (2009), 320–329) *2008

Chris Wickham Christopher John Wickham, (born 18 May 1950) is a British historian and academic. From 2005 to 2016, he was Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford: he is now emeritus professor ...

, '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 Timothy Charles William Blanning (born 21 April 1942) is an English historian who served as Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 2009. Career Timothy Charles William Blanning attended the King's Sch ...

, 'The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation past and present'. *2011 Catherine Hall, 'Macaulay and Son: an imperial story'. *2012

Quentin Skinner Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including th ...

, 'John Milton as a theorist of liberty'. *2013

Lisa Jardine Lisa Anne Jardine (née Bronowski; 12 April 1944 – 25 October 2015) was a British historian of the early modern period. From 1990 to 2011, she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and ...

, 'Meeting my own history coming back : Jacob Bronowski's MI5 files'. *2014

Richard J. Evans Sir Richard John Evans (born 29 September 1947) is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany. He is the author of eighteen books, including his three-volume ''The Third Reich Trilogy'' (2003–2008). Evans was ...

, 'Was the 'Final Solution' Unique? Reflections on Twentieth-Century Genocides'. *2015

Margaret MacMillan Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson Univer ...

, 'The Outbreak of the First World War: Why the debate goes on'.

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