The Creighton Lecture is an annual lecture delivered at
King's College, London on a topic in history. The series, which memorializes historian and prelate
Mandell Creighton, began in 1907 with a grant of £650, half of which was donated by his widow,
Louise Creighton.[1]
1914
James Bryce, Race Sentiment as a Factor in History (published 1915)
1915
J. W. Fortescue, ‘England at war in three centuries’ [unpublished?]
1916
A. F. Pollard, ‘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, Aristophanes and the War Party: a Study in the Contemporary Criticism of the Peloponnesian War (published 1919)
1919
G. M. Trevelyan, 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, ‘Napoleon and the British Navy after Trafalgar’, Quarterly Review, ccxxxvii (1922), 238–55
1922
Charles Oman, ‘Historical perspective’; cf. his On the Writing of History (1939), pp. 76ff.
1923
G. P. Gooch, 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, ‘Bentham as political inventor’, Contemporary Review, cxxix (1926), 308–19
1926
C. W. Alvord, ‘The significance of the new interpretation of Georgian politics’ [unpublished?]
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1929 ‘E. Barber’ [?= Ernest Barker], ‘Political ideas in Boston during the American Revolution’ [unpublished?]
1930
Henri Pirenne, ‘La révolution belge de 1830’ [unpublished]
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N. H. Baynes, ‘The Byzantine imperial ideal’ [unpublished?]
1934
A. P. Newton, ‘The West Indies in international politics, 1550–1850’, History, xix (1934–5), 193–207, 302–10
1935
F. M. Stenton, ‘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, ‘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, The Cycle of War and Peace in Modern History (published 1949)
1949
V. H. Galbraith, Historical Research in Medieval England (published 1951)
1995
James Campbell, ‘European economic development in the eleventh century: an English case-study’ [unpublished?]
1996
Averil Cameron, ‘Byzantium: why do we need it?’ [unpublished?]
1997
E. Le Roy Ladurie, ‘The History of the book in France, 1460–1970’ [unpublished?]
1998
Peter Clarke, ‘The rise and fall of Thatcherism’, Historical Research, lxxii (1999), 301–22
1999
John Gillingham, ‘Civilizing the English? The English histories of William of Malmesbury and David Hume’, Historical Research, lxxiv (2001), 17–43
2000
Jessica Rawson, ‘The power of images: the model universe of the First Emperor and its legacy’, Historical Research, lxxv (2002), 123–54
2001
Shula Marks, ‘Class, culture and consciousness: the experience of Black South Africans, c.1870–1920’ [unpublished?]
2002
Patrick Collinson, ‘Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history’, Historical Research, lxxvi (2003), 469–91
2003
J. G. A. Pocock, ‘The politics of historiography’, Historical Research, lxxviii (2005), 1–14
2004
R. I. Moore, ‘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, ‘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, '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'.[5]
2016
John Darwin, 'The Globe, the Sea and the City: Port Cities and Globalisation in the long 19th Century'[6]