Rede Lecture
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The Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer is an annual appointment to give a public lecture, the Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) at the University of Cambridge
. It is named for Sir Robert Rede
, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
in the sixteenth century.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. It is named for Sir Robert Rede
Robert Rede
Sir Robert Rede KS was a British justice. He was the son of William Rede of Wrangle, Lincolnshire, a merchant working from Calais, and his wife Joan. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1467 and gave his first reading there in 1481...
, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
The Court of Common Pleas, also known as the Common Bench or Common Place, was the second highest common law court in the English legal system until 1880, when it was dissolved. As such, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was one of the highest judicial officials in England, behind only the Lord...
in the sixteenth century.
Initial series
The initial series of lectures ranges from around 1668 to around 1856. In principle, there were three lectureships each year, on Logic, Philosophy and Rhetoric. These differed from the later individual lectures, in that they were appointments to a lectureship for a period of time, rather than an appointment for a one-off annual lecture. There was also a Mathematics lectureship which dated from an earlier time, while another term used was "Barnaby Lecturer", as the lecturers were elected on St Barnabas Day. A selection of the lecturers, who tended to have studied at Cambridge and be appointed after becoming Fellows of a College, is given below, with a full listing given in the sources.New series
From 1858, the lecture was re-established as a one-off annual lecture, delivered by a person appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the university. The names of the appointees and the titles of their lectures are given below.1858-1899
- 1859 Richard OwenRichard OwenSir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia - 1860 John PhillipsJohn Phillips (geologist)John Phillips FRS was an English geologist.- Life and work :Philips was born at Marden in Wiltshire...
Life on the earth, its origin and succession - 1861 Robert WillisRobert Willis (engineer)The Reverend Robert Willis was an English academic. He was the first Cambridge professor to win widespread recognition as a mechanical engineer, and first set the scientific study of vowels on a respectable foundation, but now best remembered for his extensive architectural writings, including a...
The social and architectural history of Trinity College - 1862 Edward SabineEdward SabineGeneral Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer.Two branches of Sabine's work in particular deserve very high credit: Determination of the length of the seconds pendulum, a simple pendulum whose time period on the surface of the Earth is two...
The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism - 1863 David Thomas Ansted The correlation of the natural history sciences
- 1864 George Biddell AiryGeorge Biddell AirySir George Biddell Airy PRS KCB was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881...
The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them - 1865 John TyndallJohn TyndallJohn Tyndall FRS was a prominent Irish 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation, and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere...
On Radiation - 1866 William ThomsonWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging...
The dissipation of energy - 1867 John RuskinJohn RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
The relation of national ethics to national art - 1868 Friedrich Max Müller On the stratification of language
- 1869 William HugginsWilliam HugginsSir William Huggins, OM, KCB, FRS was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy.-Biography:...
On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies - 1870 William Allen MillerWilliam Allen MillerWilliam Allen Miller FRS was a British scientist.He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Ackworth School and King's College London....
On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours - 1871 Joseph Norman LockyerJoseph Norman LockyerSir Joseph Norman Lockyer, FRS , known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium...
Recent solar discoveries - 1872 Edward Augustus FreemanEdward Augustus FreemanEdward Augustus Freeman was an English historian. His reputation as a historian rests largely on his History of the Norman Conquest , his longest completed book...
The Unity of History - 1873 Peter Guthrie TaitPeter Guthrie TaitPeter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical...
Thermo-electricity - 1874 Samuel White Baker Slavery
- 1875 Henry James Sumner MaineHenry James Sumner MaineSir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI , was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis, in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional...
The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought - 1876 Samuel BirchSamuel BirchSamuel Birch was a British Egyptologist and antiquary.-Biography:Birch was the son of a rector at St Mary Woolnoth, London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. From an early age, his manifest tendency to the study of out-of-the-way subjects well suited his later interest in archaeology...
The monumental history of ancient Egypt - 1877 Charles Wyville ThomsonCharles Wyville ThomsonSir Charles Wyville Thomson was a Scottish zoologist and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition.-Career:...
On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger - 1878 James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory...
On the telephone - 1879 William Henry Dallinger 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'
- 1880 George Murray HumphryGeorge Murray HumphrySir George Murray Humphry was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer.-Life:He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk on 18 July 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, a barrister...
'Man, prehistoric, present, future' - 1881 William MuirWilliam MuirSir William Muir, KCSI was a Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator.-Life:He was born at Glasgow and educated at Kilmarnock Academy, at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, and at Haileybury College. In 1837 he entered the Bengal Civil Service...
The early Caliphate - 1882 Matthew ArnoldMatthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator...
Literature and Science - 1883 Thomas Henry Huxley The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/SM5/Rede.html
- 1884 Francis GaltonFrancis GaltonSir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
The Measurement of Human Faculty - 1885 George John Romanes Mind and motion
- 1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due - 1887 John Robert SeeleyJohn Robert SeeleySir John Robert Seeley, KCMG was an English essayist and historian.-Life:He was born in London, the son of R.B. Seeley, a publisher. Seeley developed a taste for religious and historical subjects...
Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era - 1888 Frederick Augustus AbelFrederick Augustus Abel-External links:...
Applications of science to the protection of human life - 1889 George Gabriel StokesGeorge Gabriel StokesSir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS , was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics , optics, and mathematical physics...
On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter - 1890 Richard Claverhouse JebbRichard Claverhouse JebbSir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, OM, FBA was a British classical scholar and politician.He was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father was a well-known barrister, and his grandfather a judge...
Erasmus - 1891 Alfred Comyn LyallAlfred Comyn LyallSir Alfred Comyn Lyall, GCIE, KCB was a British civil servant, literary historian and poet.-Early life:He was born at Coulsdon in Surrey, the second son of Alfred Lyall and Mary Drummond Broadwood, daughter of James Shudi Broadwood. He was educated at Eton...
Natural religion in India - 1892 Thomas George BonneyThomas George BonneyThomas George Bonney FRS was an English geologist.-Career:Bonney was the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Bonney, master of Rugeley Grammar School...
The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history - 1893 Michael FosterMichael Foster (physiologist)Sir Michael Foster was an English physiologist.He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and educated at University College School, London....
Weariness - 1894 John Willis ClarkJohn Willis ClarkJohn Willis Clark , sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian.Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of Prof. Robert Willis...
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods - 1895 Mandell CreightonMandell CreightonMandell Creighton , was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship that was established around the time that the study...
The Early Renaissance in England - 1896 J. J. ThomsonJ. J. ThomsonSir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, OM, FRS was a British physicist and Nobel laureate. He is credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer...
Röntgen rays - 1897 Arthur William RückerArthur William RuckerSir Arthur William Rucker , KB, FRS was a British physicist. He gained his BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1871, and was a Fellow there from 1871 to 1876...
Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism - 1898 Henry IrvingHenry IrvingSir Henry Irving , born John Henry Brodribb, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as...
The theatre in its relation to the state - 1899 Marie Alfred CornuMarie Alfred CornuMarie Alfred Cornu was a French physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu.Cornu was born at Orléans and was educated at the École polytechnique and the École des mines...
La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne
1900-1949
- 1900 Frederic HarrisonFrederic HarrisonFrederic Harrison was a British jurist and historian.Born at 17 Euston Square, London, he was the son of Frederick Harrison, a stockbroker and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant. He was baptised at St...
Byzantine history in the early middle age - 1901 Frederic William MaitlandFrederic William MaitlandFrederic William Maitland was an English jurist and historian, generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.-Biography:...
English Law and the Renaissance - 1902 Osborne ReynoldsOsborne ReynoldsOsborne Reynolds FRS was a prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies of heat transfer between solids and fluids brought improvements in boiler and condenser design.-Life:...
On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe - 1903 George Walter ProtheroGeorge Walter ProtheroSir George Walter Prothero, KBE was an English writer and historian, and President of the Royal Historical Society....
Napoleon III and the Second Empire - 1904 James Alfred EwingJames Alfred EwingSir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.It was said of Ewing that he was 'Careful at all times of his appearance,...
The structure of metals - 1905 Francis Edward Younghusband Our true relationship with India
- 1906 William Mitchell RamsayWilliam Mitchell RamsaySir William Mitchell Ramsay was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. By his death in 1939 he had become the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament...
The wars between Moslem and Christian for the possession of Asia Minor - 1907 Aston WebbAston WebbSir Aston Webb, RA, FRIBA was an English architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century...
The art of architecture, and the training required to practise it - 1908 Ernest Mason SatowErnest Mason SatowSir Ernest Mason Satow PC, GCMG, , known in Japan as "" , known in China as "薩道義" or "萨道义", was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist....
An Austrian diplomatist in the fifties - 1909 Archibald GeikieArchibald GeikieSir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE , was a Scottish geologist and writer.-Early life:Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of musician and music critic James Stuart Geikie...
Charles Darwin as Geologist - 1910 Charles Harding FirthCharles Harding FirthSir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian.Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford...
The parallel between the English and American Civil Wars - 1911 Charles Algernon ParsonsCharles Algernon ParsonsSir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence on the naval and electrical engineering fields...
The Steam Turbine - 1912 George Gilbert Aimé Murray The chorus in Greek tragedy
- 1913 George Nathaniel Curzon Modern Parliamentary Eloquence
- 1914 Norman MooreNorman Moore (medical historian)Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet FRCP was a British doctor and historian of medicine.-Early life:Moore was born in Higher Broughton, Manchester, in 1847. He was the only child of noted Irish political economist Robert Ross Rowan Moore, and his wife Rebecca...
St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war - 1915 Frederic George Kenyon Ideals and characteristics of English culture
- 1916 George Forrest BrowneGeorge Forrest BrowneGeorge Forrest Browne was an English clergyman, the inaugural Anglican Bishop of Stepney from 1895 until 1897 when he was appointed Bishop of Bristol....
The ancient cross-shafts of BewcastleBewcastleBewcastle is a large civil parish in the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England.According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 411. The parish is large and includes the settlements of Roadhead, Shopford, Blackpool Gate, Roughsike and The Flatt. To the north the parish extends...
and RuthwellRuthwellRuthwell is a village and parish on the Solway Firth between Dumfries and Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.Ruthwell's most famous inhabitant was the Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan. He was a minister, author, antiquarian, geologist, publisher, philanthropist, artist and businessman.In 1810, Dr... - 1917 Richard Tetley Glazebrook Science and industry
- 1918 Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven The Royal Navy, 1815-1915
- 1919 Lord Moulton, Science and War
- 1920 James Scorgie Meston, 1st Baron Meston India at the crossways
- 1921 William Napier Shaw The air and its ways
- 1922 William Ralph IngeWilliam Ralph IngeWilliam Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, "Dean Inge."- Life :...
The Victorian Age - 1923 Hendrick Antoon Lorentz Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
- 1924 Herbert Hensley HensonHerbert Hensley HensonHerbert Hensley Henson was an Anglican priest, a controversialist and Bishop of Durham...
Byron - 1925 Hugh WalpoleHugh WalpoleSir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large...
Some notes on the evolution of the English novel - 1926 Arthur Mayger Hind Claude LorrainClaude LorrainClaude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English Claude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, , dit le Lorrain) Claude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French...
and modern art - 1927 Josiah Stamp On stimulus in the economic life
- 1928 Michael Ernest SadlerMichael Ernest SadlerSir Michael Ernest Sadler KCSI was a British historian, educationalist and university administrator. He worked at the universities of Manchester and Leeds. He was a champion of the public school system.-Early life and education:...
Thomas Day: an English disciple of Rousseau - 1929 John Buchan The Causal and the Casual in History
- 1930 James Hopwood JeansJames Hopwood JeansSir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.-Background:...
The mysterious universe, resulting in the book The Mysterious UniverseThe Mysterious UniverseThe Mysterious Universe, by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, is a science book for lay persons, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press.... - 1931 George Stuart GordonGeorge Stuart GordonGeorge Stuart Gordon was a British literary scholar.Gordon was educated at Glasgow University, Oriel College, Oxford ....
Robert BridgesRobert BridgesRobert Seymour Bridges, OM, was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.-Personal and professional life:... - 1932 Edgar Allison PeersEdgar Allison PeersEdgar Allison Peers , also known by his pseudonym Bruce Truscot, was an English Hispanist and educationist. He was Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool and is notable for founding the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies .As "Bruce...
St. John of the Cross - 1933 Charles Scott SherringtonCharles Scott SherringtonSir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s...
Brain and its mechanism - 1934 Hugh Pattison Macmillan Two ways of thinking
- 1935 Alfred Daniel HallAlfred Daniel HallSir Alfred Daniel Hall, FRS, sometimes known as Sir Daniel Hall was a British agricultural educationist and researcher.He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire....
The pace of progress - 1936 Cedric Webster Hardwicke The drama to-morrow
- 1937 Harold George Nicolson The Meaning Of Prestige
- 1938 Patrick Playfair Laidlaw Virus diseases and viruses
- 1939 Edward Mellanby Some social and economic implications of the recent advances in medical science
- 1940 Augustus Moore Daniel Some approaches to judgment in painting
- 1941 E. M. ForsterE. M. ForsterEdward Morgan Forster OM, CH was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society...
Virginia Woolf - 1942 Archibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...
American opinion of the war - 1943 Max BeerbohmMax BeerbohmSir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.-Early life:...
Lytton Strachey's writings - 1944 Richard Winn Livingstone Plato and modern education
- 1945 Norman Birkett National Parks and the countryside
- 1946 Edward Victor AppletonEdward Victor AppletonSir Edward Victor Appleton, GBE, KCB, FRS was an English physicist.-Biography:Appleton was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and educated at Hanson Grammar School. At the age of 18 he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge...
Terrestrial magnetism and the ionosphere - 1947 Hubert Douglas Henderson The uses and abuses of economic planning
- 1948 Walter Hamilton MoberlyWalter Hamilton MoberlySir Walter Hamilton Moberly, GBE, KCB, Kt, DSO was a British academic.-Life:The son of Rev. Robert Campbell Moberly and the grandson of George Moberly, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford...
Universities and the state - 1949 Ernest William BarnesErnest William BarnesErnest William Barnes FRS was an English mathematician and scientist who later became a theologian and bishop....
Religion and turmoil
1950-1999
- 1950 Edward Bridges Portrait of a Profession
- 1951 Cecil Maurice Bowra Inspiration and poetry
- 1952 Walter Russell Brain The Contribution of Medicine to our Idea of the Mind
- 1953 Arthur Duncan Gardner The proper study of mankind
- 1954 Charles Alfred Coulson Science and religion: a changing relationship
- 1955 Lord David CecilLord David CecilEdward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH , was a British biographer, historian and academic. He held the style of 'Lord' by courtesy, as a younger son of a marquess.-Early life and studies:...
Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist - 1956 John BetjemanJohn BetjemanSir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...
The English Town in the Last Hundred Years - 1957 Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer Matthew Prior
- 1958 Charles Galton DarwinCharles Galton DarwinSir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS was an English physicist, the grandson of Charles Darwin. He served as director of the National Physical Laboratory during the Second World War.-Early life:...
The problems of world population - 1959 C. P. SnowC. P. SnowCharles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester CBE was an English physicist and novelist who also served in several important positions with the UK government...
The Two CulturesThe Two CulturesThe Two Cultures is the title of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures—namely the sciences and the humanities—and that this was a major... - 1960 Edgar WindEdgar WindEdgar Wind was a German-born British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University...
Classicism - 1961 Lord Radcliffe Censors
- 1962 Robert Hall Planning
- 1963 Douglas William Logan The Years of Challenge
- 1964 Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson The oldest Irish tradition - a window on the early Iron Age
- 1965 Gavin de BeerGavin de BeerSir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS was a British evolutionary embryologist. He was Director of the British Museum , President of the Linnean Society, and received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.-Biography:...
Genetics and prehistory - 1966 Harold McCarter TaylorHarold McCarter TaylorHarold McCarter Taylor CBE TD was a New Zealand-born British mathematician, theoretical physicist and academic administrator, but is best known as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Taylor, née Sills, of the three volumes of Anglo-Saxon Architecture, published...
Why should we study the Anglo-Saxons? - 1967 Kenneth WheareKenneth WheareSir Kenneth Clinton Wheare CMG was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England...
The university in the news - 1968 Patrick Arthur Devlin, Lord Devlin The House of Lords and the Naval Prize Bill 1911
- 1969 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett The gap widens
- 1970 Kenneth ClarkKenneth ClarkKenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation...
The artist grows old - 1971 Herbert ButterfieldHerbert ButterfieldSir Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for two books—a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History and his Origins of Modern Science...
The discontinuities between the generations in History: their effect on the transmission of political experience - 1972 None
- 1973 Kingsley Dunham Non-renewable resources - a dilemma
- 1974 Walker Laing Macdonald Perry Higher education for adults: where more means better
- 1975 Alfred Alistair Cooke The American in England: from Emerson to S. J. Perelman
- 1976 Rupert CrossRupert CrossSir Alfred Rupert Neale Cross was a prominent English lawyer and academic...
The golden thread of English Criminal Law: the burden of proof - 1977 Richard SouthernRichard SouthernSir Richard William Southern , who published under the name R. W. Southern, was a noted English medieval historian, based at the University of Oxford.-Biography:...
The historical experience - 1978 Margaret GowingMargaret GowingProfessor Margaret Gowing, CBE, was an English historian.- Overview :Margaret Gowing was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in conjunction with Longman's, Green and Co...
Reflections on Atomic Energy History - 1979 HRH The Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....
Philosophy, politics and administration - 1980 Shirley Williams Technology, employment, and change
- 1981 Frederick Sydney Dainton British universities: purposes, problems, and pressures
- 1982 Fred HoyleFred HoyleSir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally...
Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere - 1983 David Towry Piper The increase of learning and other great objects
- 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair A time for change
- 1985 Brian UrquhartBrian UrquhartSir Brian Urquhart, KCMG, MBE is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. He is also a World War II veteran and an author.-Early life:...
The United Nations and international law - 1986 David AttenboroughDavid AttenboroughSir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
Islands - 1987 Sir John Thompson A reconsideration of the ideas underlying the international system
- 1988 Roy JenkinsRoy JenkinsRoy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...
Lord Jenkins of Hillhead; 'An Oxford view of Cambridge' - 1989 Peter Alexander Ustinov Communication
- 1990 HRH The Princess RoyalAnne, Princess RoyalPrincess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
Punishment - 1991 Peter Swinnerton-DyerPeter Swinnerton-DyerSir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet KBE FRS , commonly known as Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, is an English mathematician specialising in number theory at University of Cambridge...
Policy on Higher Education and Research - 1993 L. M. SinghviL. M. SinghviL. M. Singhvi लक्ष्मीमल सिंघवी was a, Indian jurist, parliamentarian, constitutional expert, scholar, distinguished diplomat...
A Tale of Three Cities - 1994 Geoffrey HoweGeoffrey HoweRichard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, QC, PC is a former British Conservative politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and finally Leader of the House of Commons...
Nationalism and the Nation State - 1996 Mary RobinsonMary RobinsonMary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate...
- 1997 Leon Brittan Globalisation vs. Sovereignty? The European Response
- 1998 Rosalyn HigginsRosalyn HigginsDame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC is the former President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006. Her term of office expired on 6 February 2009...
International Law in a Changing Legal System
2000 onwards
- 2009 Wen JiabaoWen JiabaoWen Jiabao is the sixth and current Premier and Party secretary of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, serving as China's head of government and leading its cabinet. In his capacity as Premier, Wen is regarded as the leading figure behind China's economic policy...
See China in the Light of Her Development - 2010 Onora O'Neill The Two Cultures Fifty Years On
- 2011 Harold Varmus The Purpose and Conduct of Science