Oxford University, 1866 - 1987

More than 120 pamphlets, primarily various lecture series, produced by the faculties, colleges, or other groups affiliated with the University of Oxford. Occasional manuscript material such as letters, leaflets, or other small pieces of ephemera are present along with individual pamphlets. Lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year. The materials included are as follows.

BOX ONE

Inaugural Lectures

1894: Robinson Ellis, “The Fables of Phaedrus”
1901: A.C. Bradley, “Poetry for Poetry’s Sake”
1909: Spenser Wilkinson, “The University and the Study of War”
1913: Spenser Wilkinson, “The Early Life of Moltke”
1916: Spenser Wilkinson, “The Way to Victory”
1917: Spenser, Wilkinson, “Some Neglected Aspects of the War”
1920: Clement C.J. Webb, “Philosophy and the Christian Religion”
1920: F. de Zulueta, “The Study of Roman Law Today”
1923: John Fraser, “History and Etymology”
1923: George Gordon, “The Discipline of Letters”
1924: W.M. Geldart, “Legal Personality”
1925: H.W.C. Davis, “The Study of History”
1926: Cuthbert H. Turner, “The Study of the New Testament, 1883 and 1920”
1926: Robert McElroy, “American History as an International Study”
1930: R.V. Southwell, “The Place of Engineering Science in University Studies”
1930: L.W. Grensted, “The Philosophical Implications of Christianity”
1932: William J. Entwistle, “The Scope of Spanish Studies”
1932: Kenneth Mason, “The Geography of Current Affairs”
1933: H.H. Plaskett, “The Place of Observation in Astronomy”
1935: George Gordon, “Poetry and the Moderns”
1935: E.R. Hughes, “Oxford and the Comparative Study of Chinese Philosophy and Religion”
1938: Adam Fox, “Poetry for Pleasure”
1944: Leonard Hodgson, “Theology in an Age of Science”
1945: K.C. Wheare, “The Machinery of Government”
1945: F.L. Cross, “The Study of St. Athanasius”
1946: W.K. Hancock, “Economic History at Oxford”
1947: Cyril Falls, “The Place of War in History”
1947: Keith Feiling, “The Study of the Modern History of Great Britain, 1862-1946”
1948: V.H. Galbraith, “Historical Study and the State”
1948: David M. Potter, “The Lincoln Theme and American National Historiography”
1948: C.F.C. Hawkes, “Archaeology and the History of Europe”
1950: V.A. Demant, “The Responsibility and Scope of Pastoral Theology To-Day”
1952: Jean Seznac, “On Two Definitions of Literature”
1952: Ian T. Ramsey, “Miracles: An Exercise in Logical Mapwork”
1952: Lawrence Henry Gipson, “The British Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Its Strengths and its Weakness”
1953: R.C. Zaehner, “Foolishness to the Greeks”
1954: R.A. Billington, “The American Frontiersman”
1954: C.D. Darlington, “The Place of Botany in the Life of a University”
1955: L.R. Palmer, “Achaeans and Indo-Europeans”
1955: E.W. Gilbert, “Geography as a Humane Study”
1956: Frank Freidel, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal”
1956: David Daube, “The Defence of Superior Orders in Roman Law”
1957: I.A. Richmond, “The Archaeology of the Roman Empire: A Scheme of Study”
1958: Max Beloff, “The Tasks of Government”
1958: Walter Johnson, “The American President and the Art of Communication”
1959: A.S. Link, “President Wilson and his English Critics”
1959: Cecil Grayson, “A Renaissance Controversy: Latin or Italian?”
1960: David Donald, “An Excess of Democracy”
1961: Ernest L. Stahl, “Creativity: A theme from Faust and the Duino Elegies”
1961: R.W. Southern, “The Shape and Substance of Academic History”
1962: K.M. Stampp, “Andrew Johnson and the Failure of the Agrarian Dream”
1962: H.W.R. Wade, “Law, Opinion and Administration”
1962: D.E. Blackwell, “The Future of Optical Astronomy”
1963: J.W.S. Pringle, “The Two Biologies”
1964: Frank E. Vandiver, “Jefferson Davis and the Confederate State”
1965: A.R.N. Cross, “Paradoxes in Prison Sentences”
1965: O. Kahn-Freund, “Comparative Law as an Academic Subject”
1967: Helen Gardner, “Literary Studies”
1968: Basil Mitchell, “Neutrality and Commitment”
1969: Jean Gottmann, “The Renewal of the Geographic Environment”
1969: Lawrence Weiskrantz, “Inroads and Detours in Psychology”
1970: D.B. Davis, “Was Thomas Jefferson an Authentic Enemy of Slavery?”
1971: Peter Mathias, “Living with the Neighbours: The role of Economic History”
1971: H.G. Nicholas, “The American Past and the American Present”
1971: A.M. Honoré, “Justinian’s Digest: Work in Progress”
1971: Richard Ellmann, “Literary Biography”
1972: Hans Motz, “Innovation and the Academic Engineer”
1972: Alastair Buchan, “Can International Relations Be Professed?”
1973: C.A. Coulson, “Theoretical Chemistry: Past and Future”
1974: J. McManners, “Reflections at the Death Bed of Voltaire: The Art of Dying in Eighteenth-Century France”
1975: Jacques Scherer, “Théâtre et Anti-Théâtre Au XVIIIe Siècle”
1975: Margaret Gowing, “What’s Science to History or History to Science?”
1976: Roy Harris, “On the Possibility of Linguistic Change”
1980: Robert Shackleton, “British Scholarship and French Literature”


J.L. Myres Lectures

1961: Bernard Ashmole, “Forgeries of Ancient Sculpture Creation and Detection”
1971: W. Gordon East, “The Destruction of Cities in the Mediterranean Lands”
1979: J.N.L. Myres, “Commander J.L. Myres, R.N.V.R.: The Blackbeard of the Aegean”
1985: V. Karageorghis, “The Archaeology of Cyprus: The Ninety Years after Myres”


Frazer Lectures,

1934: Herbert Jennings Rose, “Concerning Parallels”
1937: Henry Balfour, “Spinners and Weavers in Anthropological Research”
1938: J.H. Hutton, “A Primitive Philosophy of Life”
1947: H.J. Fleure, “Some Aspects of British Civilization”


BOX TWO

Romanes Lectures

1962: Lord Radcliffe of Werneth, “Mountstuart Elphinstone”
1970: Isaiah Berlin, “Fathers and Children”
1987: Norman St John-Stevas, “The Omnipresence of Walter Bagehot”


Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lectures

1968: H.F.R. Catherwood, “The High Risks of Low Growth”
1970: Sir George Edwards, “Partnership in Major Technological Projects”
1974: F.J.M. Laver, “Information Engineering and Society”
1976: Sir Frederick Warner, “Engineering Safety and The Environment”


Zaharoff Lectures

1949: P. Renouvin, “L'Idée de Fédération Européenne dans la Pensée Politique du XIXe Siècle”
1962: Jean Seznec, “Marcel Proust et les Dieux”
1973: Jean-Jacques Mayoux, “L’Humour et l’absurde: attitudes anglo-saxonnes attitudes françaises”
1987: Michel Fleury, “Point d'archéologie sans histoire”


Public Lectures at Corpus Christi College by Robinson Elllis

1901: “The New Fragments of Juvenal”
1906: “A Bodleian MS. of Copa, Moretum, and Other Poems of the Appendix Vergiliana”
1911: “The Tenth Declamation of (Pseudo) Quintilian”
1912: “The Amores of Ovid: A Lecture”
1913: “The Second Book of Ovid’s Tristia: A Public Lecture”


The Stanhope Essay

1866: Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, “The Reign of Richard the Second”
1879: Hastings Rashdall, “John Huss”
1870: Lloyd C. Sanders, “The Possibility of a Stewart Restoration on the Death of Anne”
1883: John Bruce Williamson, “The Foreign Commerce of England under the Tudors”
1890: David Watson Rannie, “Daniel Defoe”


Miscellaneous Lectures, Sermons, and Essays

1901: Francis Paget, “The Years That Are Past”
1912: F. Haverfield, “The Study of Ancient History in Oxford”
1913: T. Herbert Warren, “Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate: Readings from his Poems”
1926: Alfred Simmern, “The British Commonwealth in the Post-War World”
1926: Peter Haworth, “Hymn-Writing as a Form of Literature”
1928: A.B. Poynton, “Isocrates: A Public Lecture”
1935: Julian S. Huxley, “Problems in Experimental Embryology”
1936: A.G. Fraser, “Africa and Peace”
1943: [Alic Halford Smith], “H.W.B. Joseph 1867-1943”
1945: J.A. Westrup, “The Meaning of Musical History”
1946: R.C.K. Ensor, “Some Reflections on Herbert’s Spencer’s Doctrine that Progress is Differentiation”
1969: Robert Gardiner, “Developing Africa”
1980: H.R. Trevor-Roper, “History and Imagination”


The Oriel Record

1923 (December)
1925 (June and December)
1926 (December)


Miscellaneous Printed Ephemera

The Oxford Union Centenary Banquet Speeches, 1924


Report, Lady Margaret Hall, 1935-1936


Wytham: A Record Issued by the Oxford Preservation Trust on the Acquisition of Wytham Abbey and Estate by the University of Oxford, 1943


Robert Ranulph Marett, Oxford University Anthropological Society, 1943


Thanksgiving Service leaflet, Rhodes Scholars, 1953


Annual Record, Balliol College, 1977 and 1978


Funeral leaflet for Jean Joseph Seznec, All Souls College, 1984