Charles Firth (historian)
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Sir Charles Harding Firth FBA (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906.[1] Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances, not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."[2]
Career
Born in Sheffield, Firth was educated at
Teaching vs scholarship
Firth was a great friend and ally of
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1892.[6]
He served as president of the Royal Historical Society from 1913 to 1917.[7]
His letters to Tout are in the latter's collection in the
Major works
- Life of the Duke of Newcastle (1886)
- Scotland and the Commonwealth (1895)
- Scotland and the Protectorate (1899)
- Narrative of General Venables (1900)
- Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England (1900)
- Cromwell's Army: A History of the English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate (1902) (publication of Firth's Ford Lectures given at Oxford, 1900–1901)
- The standard edition of Ludlow's Memoirs (1894).
He also edited the Clarke Papers (1891–1901), and Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson (1885), and wrote an introduction to the Stuart Tracts, 1603–1693 (1903), besides contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography. In 1909 he published The Last Years of the Protectorate.
Godfrey Davies, who had been Firth's student and then his research assistant at Oxford between 1910 and 1925, edited and published Firth's posthumously published works.
See also
- Historiography of the United Kingdom
- Oliver Cromwell
- Duke of Newcastle
- Edmund Ludlow
- Colonel John Hutchinson
- Robert Venables
- Sir William Clarke
References
- ^ Herbert Butterfield, "The History of the Historical Association" History Today (Jan 1956) 6#1 pp. 63–67.
- ^ E. S. de Beer, ed, The Diary of John Evelyn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), vol. 1., p. viii
- ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p28: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
- ^ "FIRTH, Charles Harding". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 598.
- S2CID 159647938.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
- ^ "List of Presidents". The Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
Further reading
- Roots, Ivan (2004). "Firth, Sir Charles Harding (1857–1936)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33137. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Firth, Charles Harding". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 425. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Works by or about Charles Harding Firth at Wikisource
- Works by Charles Firth at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Charles H. Firth at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)