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The Prothero Lecture: Sir George Prothero and his circle
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 20 / December 1970
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 101-127
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- SIR GEORGE PROTHERO AND HIS CIRCLE By C. W. Crawley, M.A., F.R.Hist.S. THE PROTHERO LECTURE READ 12 JULY I969 IT is an accident of birth that has brought to a retired CollegeTutor the honour of giving the first Prothero lecture. Todeclare my interest at once, it happens that Sir George Prothero's wife was my mother's sister; both my parents died before my sister and I could remember them.
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Victorian Historians and the Royal Historical Society (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 39 / December 1989
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 125-140
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- December 1989
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- There was from 1886 onwards a Cambridge Branch, with Seeley as Chair- man and Browning Secretary, which included Cunningham, Bass Mullinger, Prothero and A. P. Ropes, all teachers for the newly revised Historical Tripos and three of them, Browning, Prothero and Ropes, Kingsmen. Ropes was, after Browning and Cunningham, the earliest 'professional' contributor to the Transactions, with a paper published in 1886 and two more shortly afterwards.
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The Continuity of the English Revolution (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 1 / December 1991
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 121-135
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- December 1991
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- THE CONTINUITY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION The Prothero Lecture By Lord Dacre of Glanton READ 4 JULY I99O IN our history, the twenty years from 1640 to 1660 are, at first sight, years of desperate, even meaningless change. It is difficult to keep pace with those crowded events or to see any continuity in them. At the time, men struggled from day to day and then sank under the tide.
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England, Britain and the Audit of War (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 7 / December 1997
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 131-153
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- December 1997
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- ENGLAND, BRITAIN AND THE AUDIT OF WAR The Prothero Lecture By Kenneth O. Morgan READ 2 JULY 1996 THE award of the Booker Prize for 1995 to Pat Barker's Ghost Road did more than pay tribute to the latest powerful novel in the author's 'Regeneration Cycle'. 1 It also emphasised once again how much the historical and cultural consciousness of twentieth-century Britain is dominated by images of war.
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London and the Nation in the Nineteenth Century (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 35 / December 1985
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 51-74
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- December 1985
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- LONDON AND THE NATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY The Prothero Lecture By Francis Sheppard, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S. READ I 6 MARCH I 984 THE relationship between London and the rest of the nation is an important but perhaps somewhat neglected aspect of English his- tory.
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The Survival of the British MonarchyThe Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 36 / December 1986
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 143-164
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- December 1986
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- THE SURVIVAL OF THE BRITISH MONARCHY The Prothero Lecture By John Cannon READ 3 JULY I 985 I USE as my epigraph a famous remark by Joseph Chamberlain— fit to be included in that rich anthology of unlucky forecasts, of which classic examples are Pitt's fifteen years of peace in February 1792, and Neville Chamberlain's 'I think it is peace for our time', in 1938.
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A Defence of World History (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 32 / December 1982
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 75-89
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- December 1982
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- A DEFENCE OF WORLD HISTORY The Prothero Lecture By Professor William H. McNeill, Corresponding Fellow READ I JULY 1981 WORLD history was once taken for granted as the only sensible basis for understanding the past. Christians could do no other than begin with creation and fit subsequent details into the framework of divine revelation. This ordering of the past survived into the seventeenth century as Bossuet and Walter Raleigh may remind us.
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‘An Airier Aristocracy’: The Saints at War (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 6 / December 1996
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 103-122
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- December 1996
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- 'AN AIRIER ARISTOCRACY': THE SAINTS AT WAR The Prothero Lecture By Christopher Holdsworth READ 28 JUNE I995 The Latins are much like Arabs, as we say at Radcliffe; decay of infeud scattered the Scottish clans, but ours is an airier aristocracy:...' I want to plunge into my subject by adopting that practice well known to our medieval predecessors, namely to use an exemplum, because at once it transports us into the heart of the problem to be addressed.
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The Myth of Norman Administrative Efficiency The Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 34 / December 1984
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 113-132
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- December 1984
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- THE MYTH OF NORMAN ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY The Prothero Lecture By Professor W.L. Warren, M.A., D.Phil., M.R.I.A., F.R.Hist.S., F.R.S.L. READ 6 JULY 1983 ARGUMENT about 'the consequences of the Conquest' is perennial and probably unresolvable. Exponents may be found of the full range of possibilities from essential continuity to catastrophic change.
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THE AGE OF PROTHERO: BRITISH HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE LONG FIN DE SIÈCLE, 1870–1920
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 20 / December 2010
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- 05 November 2010, pp. 171-193
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- December 2010
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- I Forty years ago, almost to the day and presumably near this spot, Charles Crawley of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, rose to deliver the first Prothero Lecture. 1 That ruby wedding between the Royal Historical Society and the Prothero family weighed with me in wondering whether his subject, George Prothero and his circle, might not be revisited. Revisited, but not repeated.
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The Dutch Case: a National or a Regional Culture? The Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 29 / December 1979
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 155-168
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- December 1979
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- The Prothero Lecture By Professor E. H. Kossmann, D.Litt. READ AT THE SOCIETY'S CONFERENCE l 6 SEPTEMBER I978 AS in relation to many other countries in sixteenth-century Europe, it is difficult to apply modern conceptions of nationhood to the situa- tion in the Low Countries. If the difficulty seems more awkward in this area than elsewhere, it is perhaps merely because the sixteenth- century Netherlands, as we all know, developed into two distinct nations, the northern Netherlands and Belgium.
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The Problem of Popular Allegiance in the English Civil War* (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 31 / December 1981
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 69-94
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- December 1981
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- r THE PROBLEM OF POPULAR ALLEGIANCE IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR* The Prothero Lecture By Professor David Underdown, M.A., B.Litt., F.R.Hist.S. READ 2 JULY 1980 THE belief that the common people of England had little real sym- pathy for either side in the civil war—that they were mere cannon- fodder, targets for plunder, at best deferential pawns—has a long and respectable ancestry.
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Empire and Opportunity in Britain, 1763–75 The Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 5 / December 1995
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 111-128
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- December 1995
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- EMPIRE AND OPPORTUNITY IN BRITAIN, 1763-75 The Prothero Lecture By P. J. Marshall READ 6 JULY 1994 AT the Peace of Paris in 1763 Britain reaped the rewards of a successful war overseas. Great gains were made in North America, die West Indies and West Africa. Two years later Robert Clive signed the treaty of Allahabad by which the Mughal emperor transferred the diwani and widi it effective possession of die huge province of Bengal to the East India Company.
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Thomas Hobbes on the Proper Signification of Liberty The Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 40 / December 1990
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 121-151
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- December 1990
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- THOMAS HOBBES ON THE PROPER SIGNIFICATION OF LIBERTY The Prothero Lecture By Quentin Skinner READ 5 JULY I 989 I 'CIVIL philosophy', Hobbes declares in an oft-quoted boast at the start of De Corpore, is a science 'no older . . . than my own book De Cive.' 1 As Hobbes explains in De Cive itself, and later in Leviathan, the failure of all previous efforts has simply been due to their 'want of method.' 2 The method hitherto followed, especially in the universities, has been to rely on the authority
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PUTTING THE ENGLISH REFORMATION ON THE MAP The Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 15 / December 2005
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- 28 November 2005, pp. 75-95
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- December 2005
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- /S Printed in the United Kingdom PUTTING THE ENGLISH REFORMATION ON THE MAP The Prothero Lecture By Diarmaid MacCulloch READ JULY ABSTRACT. The essay examines how the international Protestant identity of the English Church came to be in tension with the later assertion of sacramentalist or Catholic values within it.
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Numeracy in Early Modern England. The Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 37 / December 1987
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 103-132
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- December 1987
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- NUMERACY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND The Prothero Lecture By Keith Thomas READ 2 JULY 1986 IN RECENT years historians of the early modern period have given much attention to the subject of literacy, its growth, its determinants and its consequences. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England saw the widespread dissemination of the printed book and a substantial increase in the proportion of the population able to use the written word.
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The Pursuit of Happiness in the City: Changing Opportunities and Options in America (The Prothero Lecture)
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 23 / January 1973
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 175-220
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- January 1973
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- THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN THE CITY: CHANGING OPPORTUNITIES AND OPTIONS IN AMERICA The Prothero Lecture By Professor Eric E. Lampard, B.Sc.(Econ.), Ph.D. READ AT THE SOCIETY'S CONFERENCE l6 SEPTEMBER IO.72* If everything occurred at the same time there would be no develop- ment. If everything existed in the same place there could be no particularity. Only space makes possible the particular, which then unfolds in time.
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The Monetary Pattern of Sixteenth-Century Coinage1: The Prothero Lecture 1970
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 21 / December 1971
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 45-60
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- December 1971
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- THE MONETARY PATTERN OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY COINAGE The Prothero Lecture 1970 By P. Grierson, M.A., F.B.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. READ 13 MARCH 1970 THE equipment of any well-appointed counting house in the late sixteenth century would include, as a matter of course, one or more money-books illustrating and evaluating all coins likely to come its master's way.
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THE BREAK-UP OF BRITAIN? SCOTLAND AND THE END OF EMPIREThe Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 16 / December 2006
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- 23 November 2006, pp. 163-180
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- December 2006
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- SCOTLAND AND THE END OF EMPIRE The Prothero Lecture By T. M. Devine READ 6 JULY 2005 ABSTRACT. The essay is concerned with the retreat from the British empire and specifically with the Scottish aspects of that process. It is now acknowledged that the Scottish role in the imperial project was central. Hence there is a special interest in tracing the response to the end of empire north of the border.
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Mass Education and Modernization—The Case of Germany 1780–1850: The Prothero Lecture
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society / Volume 27 / December 1977
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 155-172
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- December 1977
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- MASS EDUCATION AND MODERNIZATION—THE CASE OF GERMANY 1780-1850 The Prothero Lecture By Professor Thomas Nipperdey, Dr.Phil. READ AT THE SOCIETY'S CONFERENCE I 7 SEPTEMBER IO.76 'You alone are to blame for all the misery that has befallen Prussia in the past year. You and your pseudo education, your impious platitudes which you disseminate as true wisdom, have eradicated the faith and loyalty in the minds of my subjects and have turned their hearts from me.
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