Chichele Lectures

The Chichele Lectures are a series of lectures sponsored by All Souls College, Oxford and are an example of the college's use of its income for the general benefit of the University of Oxford.^[1]Henry Chichele was the founder of All Souls.

The series began formally in 1912, but the idea that All Souls College, Oxford might sponsor an independent series of academic lectures can be dated back to 1873, or even earlier. The college had already started to establish a series of professorships, the Chichele Professorships, beginning with the first two in 1859 and 1862, who delivered their own courses of "Chichele lectures". This series of lectures, separate from the professorships, can be traced to a proposal made in 1873 by Thomas Ryburn Buchanan that the college invite a distinguished foreign professor to lecture. He later withdrew his suggestion in the face of competing ideas. But on 1 June 1909, a proposal was approved that the college would set aside £300 for three "Chichele Lectures" in foreign history, along the lines of the already established Ford Lectures. The first lecture was held in 1912. In 1919, the College widened the lecture to include law, political theory, or economic, as well as foreign and British history. Nevertheless, the lectureship was dormant from 1920 until it was revived again briefly in 1933, but was dormant again until 1947. In recent years, lectures have been given by several lecturers on a common theme as well as continuing the tradition of having a single lecturer. The lectures have normally been given in the Old Library at All Souls, but in 1959 it was moved for the first time to accommodate the great crowd drawn by Field Marshal Montgomery.^[1]

• 1912 H. A. L. Fisher, "The Napoleonic Influence in Europe"^[2]
• 1912 Henri Pirenne, "Les Phases principales du développement politique, économique, et sociale en Belgique"
• 1913 Henry William Carless Davis, " The Age of Gregory VII"
• 1914 Geoffrey Baskerville, "The Age of Boniface VII"
• 1920 Sir George Prothero, "The Second Empire and the Rise of Germany"
• 1933 Ernst Cassirer, "Die Philosophie des Rechts"
• 1933 Jacob Marschak, "Quantitative Methods in Economics"
• 1947 Bertil Ohlin, "Some Problems in Monetary Theory and Policy"
• 1948 Arnold Toynbee , "Recurrencia y singularidad en la historia"
• 1949 J. Dover Wilson , "Shakespeare y la Guerra de las Rosas"
• 1950 Edward M. Earle , "La presencia estadounidense en Europa, 1900-1950"
• 1951 Federico Chabod , "Algunos aspectos de la política exterior italiana, 1870-1919"
• 1952 RH Gabriel , "Jefferson; Emerson; Thoreau; William James; Melville"
• 1953 Harold Nicolson , "La evolución del método diplomático"
• 1954 Edgar Wind , "Arte y erudición bajo Julio II "
• 1955 C.S. Lewis , " Milton "
• 1957 Arthur Waley , "La guerra del opio vista a través de los ojos chinos"
• 1959, Mariscal de Campo Lord Montgomery , "El conflicto entre Oriente y Occidente"
• 1960 Clement Attlee , "Cambios en la concepción y estructura del Imperio británico durante el último medio siglo"
• 1961 Elias Avery Lowe , [Sobre paleografía]
• 1962 Richard Hoggart , "Artistas, organizaciones y público"
• 1964 FR Leavis , " Dickens : Arte y crítica social"
• 1964 Owen Lattimore , "Entre la Gran Muralla y Siberia"
• 1965 Lionel Robbins , "La teoría económica en la historia del pensamiento económico"
• 1967 R. Birley , "El Imperio Británico en perspectiva y retrospectiva"
• 1969 George F. Kennan , "El marqués de Custine y la Rusia de 1839"