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The Creighton Century, 1907–2007
An edited collection of classic lectures from acclaimed historians.
The Creighton Century, 1907–2007 offers a selection of ten classic lectures on history from the first hundred years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series.
This volume offers a chance to revisit some of the great lectures of our time, including previously unpublished lectures by R. H. Tawney, Lucy Sutherland, Donald Coleman, Eric Hobsbawm, and Keith Thomas, published here with commentaries by Virginia Berridge, Justin Champion, Julian Hoppit, and Jinty Nelson, among others. This volume provides a fascinating insight into the development of the discipline of history over the twentieth and early twenty-first century, with lectures on the meaning of truth and modern mythologies, revealing some significant changes in approach and emphasis as well as some surprising continuities.
The Creighton Century, 1907–2007 offers a selection of ten classic lectures on history from the first hundred years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series.
This volume offers a chance to revisit some of the great lectures of our time, including previously unpublished lectures by R. H. Tawney, Lucy Sutherland, Donald Coleman, Eric Hobsbawm, and Keith Thomas, published here with commentaries by Virginia Berridge, Justin Champion, Julian Hoppit, and Jinty Nelson, among others. This volume provides a fascinating insight into the development of the discipline of history over the twentieth and early twenty-first century, with lectures on the meaning of truth and modern mythologies, revealing some significant changes in approach and emphasis as well as some surprising continuities.
334 pages | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2020
History: British and Irish History, General History, History of Ideas
Table of Contents
Introduction
David Bates
Preface
Jo Fox
The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907-2007
Robert Evans
The meaning of truth in history’ (1913), with an introduction by Justin Champion
R. B. Haldane
A plea for the study of contemporary history’ (1928), with an introduction by Martyn Rady
R. W. Seton-Watson
The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the Civil War [published as ’The rise of the gentry, 1558-1640] (1937), with an introduction by F. M. L. Thompson
R. H. Tawney
The City of London and the opposition to government, 1768-74, with an introduction by P. J. Marshall
Lucy Sutherland
The guns of Kaifeng-Fu: China’s development of man’s first chemical explosive (1979), with an introduction by Janet Hunter
Joseph Needham
The perception of the past in early modern England (1983), with an introduction by Ariel Hessayon
Keith Thomas
Myth, history and the Industrial Revolution (1989), with an introduction by Julian Hoppit
Donald Coleman
The uncertainties of isolation: Japan between the wars (1992), with an introduction by Antony Best
Ian Nish
The present as history: writing the history of one’s own time (1993), with an introduction by Virginia Berridge
Eric Hobsbawm
The war against heresy in medieval Europe (2004), with an introduction by Jinty Nelson
R. I. Moore
David Bates
Preface
Jo Fox
The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907-2007
Robert Evans
The meaning of truth in history’ (1913), with an introduction by Justin Champion
R. B. Haldane
A plea for the study of contemporary history’ (1928), with an introduction by Martyn Rady
R. W. Seton-Watson
The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the Civil War [published as ’The rise of the gentry, 1558-1640] (1937), with an introduction by F. M. L. Thompson
R. H. Tawney
The City of London and the opposition to government, 1768-74, with an introduction by P. J. Marshall
Lucy Sutherland
The guns of Kaifeng-Fu: China’s development of man’s first chemical explosive (1979), with an introduction by Janet Hunter
Joseph Needham
The perception of the past in early modern England (1983), with an introduction by Ariel Hessayon
Keith Thomas
Myth, history and the Industrial Revolution (1989), with an introduction by Julian Hoppit
Donald Coleman
The uncertainties of isolation: Japan between the wars (1992), with an introduction by Antony Best
Ian Nish
The present as history: writing the history of one’s own time (1993), with an introduction by Virginia Berridge
Eric Hobsbawm
The war against heresy in medieval Europe (2004), with an introduction by Jinty Nelson
R. I. Moore