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.
List of Creighton Lectures
1907 Thomas Hodgkin, The Wardens of the Northern Marches (published 1908) 1908 G. W. Prothero, ‘The arrival of Napoleon III’ [unpublished] 1909 J. B. Bury, The Constitution of the Later Roman Empire (published 1910) 1910 F. J. Haverfield, ‘Greek and Roman town-planning’; expanded into his Ancient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, Political Unions (published 1911) 1912 Paul Vinogradoff, ‘Constitutional history and the year books’, Law Quarterly Review, xxix (1913), 273–84 1913 R. B. Haldane, 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Race Sentiment as a Factor in History (published 1915) 1915 J. W. Fortescue, ‘England at war in three centuries’ [unpublished?] 1916 A. F. Pollard, ‘The growth of an imperial parliament’, History, i (1916–17), 129–46 1917 C. H. Firth, Then and Now, or a Comparison between the War with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Review, cxxix (1926), 308–19 1926 C. W. Alvord, ‘The significance of the new interpretation of Georgian politics’ [unpublished?] 1927 C. Grant Robertson, History and Citizenship (published 1928) 1928 R. W. Seton-Watson, ‘A plea for the study of contemporary history’, History, xiv (1929–30), 1–18 1929 ‘E. Barber’ [?= Ernest Barker], ‘Political ideas in Boston during the American Revolution’ [unpublished?] 1930 Henri Pirenne, ‘La révolution belge de 1830’ [unpublished] 1931 Edward Jenks, ‘History and the historical novel’, The Hibbert Journal, Jan. 1932 1932 F.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) 1950 J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan Age (published 1951) 1951 E. F. Jacob, Henry Chichele and the Ecclesiastical Politics of his Age (published 1952) 1952 Lewis Namier, 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.