University of London, 1913 - 1978

File — Box: 5, Folder: 1-3

Scope and Contents

27 pamphlets containing lectures from various schools and colleges of the University of London, including the London School of Economics, University College, King’s College, and Birkbeck College, among others. Lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year.

Inaugural Lectures (1913-1968)

1913: Sir Sidney Lee, “The Place of English Literature in the Modern University”
1923: R.W. Chambers, “Concerning Certain Great teachers of the English Language”
1946: Edmund Giffen, “Engineering Research in the University”
1947: A.J. Ayer, “Thinking and Meaning”
1953: John Stephenson Spink, “Literature and the Sciences in the Age of Molière”
1962: E.L. Mascall, “Theology and History”
1968: Peter Winch, “Moral Integrity”
1968: C.N.L. Brooke, “Time, the Archsatirist”

L.T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust Lectures (1935-1955)

1935: Morris Ginsberg, “The Unity of Mankind”
1938: R.H. Tawney, “Some Thoughts on the Economics of Public Education”
1945: H.L. Beales, “The Making of Social Policy”
1946: Charles E. Raven, “Religion and Science: A Diagnosis”
1951: Charles Singer, “Technology and History”
1953: D.M. MacKinnon, “On the Notion of a Philosophy of History”
1955: Sir Mortimer Wheeler, “Aspects of the Ascent of a Civilization”

Miscellaneous Lectures (1928-1978)

1928: Charles Grant Robertson, “History and Citizenship”
1947: Sir John Anderson, “The Organization of Economic Studies in Relation to the Problems of Government”
1949: Earl Wavell, “National and International History”
1949: A.H. Smith, “Idleness as a Part of Education”
1950: Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, “Strasbourg: The Second Year”
1950: T.S.R. Boase, “Reading and Listening”
1950: W.K. Hancock, “The History of Our Times”
1951: Lionel Robbins, “The Balance of Payments”
1959: The Viscount Kilmur, “The Law of Parliamentary Privilege”
1971: Robert Shackleton, “The Library, the Scientist and the Humanist”
1975: Naomi Mitchison, “Sittlichkeit”
1978: Geoffrey F. Nuttall, “The Moment of Recognition: Luke as Story-Teller”

Dates

1913 - 1978

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