Cambridge University, 1908 - 1978

28 pamphlets, primarily various lecture series, produced by the faculties, colleges, or other groups affiliated with the University of Cambridge. 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 TWO

Inaugural Lectures (1919-1975)

1919: Thomas Okey, “Italian Studies: Their place in modern education”
1922: A.C. Pearson, “Verbal Scholarship and the Growth of Some Abstract Terms”
1926: Earl of Ronaldshay, “India”
1927: “The Present Position of History”
1946: Basil Willey, “The ‘Q’ Tradition”
1961: D.M. Mackinnon, “The Borderlands of Theology”
1964: C.H. Wilson, “History in Special and in General”
1976: Glyn Daniel, “Cambridge and the Looking-Back Curiosity”
1977: Kathleen Hughes, “The Early Celtic Idea of History and the Modern History”

BOX THREE

Leslie Stephen Lectures (1929-1976)

1929: Lascelles Abercrombie, “Progress in Literature”
1959: Sir Lewis Namier, “Charles Townshend: His Character and Career”
1976: Alan Bullock, “Is History Becoming a Social Science?”


Rede Lectures (1949-1978)

1949: E.W. Barnes, “Religion Amid Turmoil”
1950: Sir Edward Bridges, “Portrait of a Profession: The Civil Service Tradition”
1953: A.D. Gardner, “The Proper Study of Mankind”
1967: Kenneth Wheare, “The Universities in the News”
1978: Margaret Gowing, “Reflections on atomic energy history”

Miscellaneous Lectures and Printed Ephemera (1908-1960)

1908 and 1927: Prolusiones Academicae
1914: Henry Jackson, “A Commemorative Sermon Preached 9 December 1913…”
1928: Gilbert Murray, “Jane Ellen Harrison”
1939: General Sir Archibald Wavell, “Generals and Generalship”
1948: Lord Lytton, “Western Union”
1949: G.N. Clark, “The Cycle of War and Peace in Modern History”
1960: Kathleen Raine, “Blake and England”
1962: Sir John Winthrop Hackett, “The Profession of Arms”
1964: W.K. Hancock, “Smuts: Study for a Portrait”
1968: David Newsome, “Bishop Westcott and the Platonic Tradition”