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University of Glasgow, 1932 - 1974

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1-3

Scope and Contents

26 pamphlets containing various lectures from the University of Glasgow. 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.

David Murray Foundation Lectures (1932-1970)

1932: P.S. Allen, “The Correspondence of an Early Printing-House: The Amorbachs of Basle”
1934: Sir Fredric G. Kenyon, “The British Museum in War Time”
1936: A.F. Pollard, “Parliament in the Wars of the Roses”
1944: V.H. Galbraith, “Roger Wendover and Matthew Paris”
1945: R.W. Chapman, “Two Centuries of Johnsonian Scholarship”
1946: David Douglas, “The Norman Conquest and British Historians”
1951: H. Butterfield, “The Reconstruction of an Historical Episode: The History of the Enquiry into the Origins of the Seven Years’ War”
1952: George Norman Clark, “The Idea of the Industrial Revolution”
1955: J.G. Edwards, “Historians and the Medieval English Parliament”
1956: Hector McKechnie, “Judicial Process Upon Brieves, 1219-1532”
1957: F.C. Francis, “Robert Copland: Sixteenth-Century Printer and Translator”
1959: Sir Reader Bullard, “Large and Loving Privileges: The Capitulations in the Middle East and North Africa”
1967: Robert Feenstra, “Philip of Leyden”
1969: Ernest C. Mossner, “Adam Smith: The Biographical Approach”
1970: Cecil Fifoot, “Pollock and Maitland”

W.P. Ker Memorial Lectures (1940-1974)

1940: R.W. Chambers, “King Lear”
1943: Lord David Cecil, “Antony and Cleopatra”
1948: Harold Nicolson, “The Future of the English-Speaking World”
1949: Sir William Craigie, “The Romantic Poetry of Iceland”
1950: Geoffrey L. Bickersteth, “Dante’s Virgil: A Poet’s Poet”
1952: Sidney Castle Roberts, “Thomas Gray of Pembroke”
1962: James Sutherland, “John Dryden: The Poet as Orator”
1968: Gwyn Jones, “The Legendary History of Olaf Tryggvason”
1974: Denis Donoghue, “Imagination”

Miscellaneous Lectures (1945-1951)

1945: T.J. Wertenbaker, “Early Scotch Contributions to the United States”
1951: Lord Macmillan, “Oration Commemorative of the Fifth Centenary”

Dates

  • 1932 - 1974

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Extent

From the Collection: 7.5 Cubic Feet (21 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository

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