Lees Knowles Lecture
The Lees Knowles Lectureship was established at
Sir Lees Knowles.[2]
Year | Lecturers | Lectures |
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1915 | Sir Julian Corbett | The Great War after Trafalgar |
1922 | Col. Maxwell Earle | The principal strategical problems affecting the British Empire |
1923 | Col. Maxwell Earle | The principles of war |
1924 | Col. M.A. Wingfield | The eight principles of war as exemplified in the Palestine campaign, 1915–1918 |
1924 | Lt.-Col. F. Nosworthy | Russia before, during and after the Great War |
1925 | Major-Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice |
Statesmen and soldiers in the American civil war |
1927 | Major-Gen. Sir Wilkinson Bird | Some early crises of the war, and the events leading up to them: Western Front 1914 |
1928 | Major Gen. Sir George Aston | Problems of empire defence |
1929 | A.R. Hinks | Frontiers and boundary delimitations
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1930 | W.W. Tarn |
Hellenistic military developments |
1931 | Adm. Sir Herbert Richmond | Capture at sea in war |
1932 | Capt. Basil Liddell Hart |
The movement of military thought from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and its influence on European history |
1933 | John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) | Oliver Cromwell as a soldier |
1934 | Air Com. L E O Charlton | Military aeronautics applied to modern warfare |
1936 | C.R.M.F. Cruttwell |
The role of British strategy in the Great War |
1937 | Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside | British military history from 1899 to the present |
1939 | Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell |
Generalship |
1940 | Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice |
Public opinion in war |
1941 | Capt. Cyril Falls | The nature of modern warfare |
1942 | Maj. Gen. Sir George Lindsay | War on the civil and military fronts |
1943 | Admiral of the Fleet. The Lord Keyes | Amphibious Warfare and Combined Operations |
1946 | Col. A.H. Burne |
Military strategy as exemplified in World War II |
1947 | Air-Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder |
Air power in modern warfare |
1948 | Adml. Sir William James |
The influence of sea power upon the history of the British people |
1949 | Sir Ronald Weeks | Organisation and equipment for war |
1950 | Sir Henry Tizard | The influence of war on science |
1951 | Gen. Sir William Platt | The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940–1 |
1951 | Capt. G.H. Roberts, RN, | The battles of the Atlantic |
1952 | Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill | Some human factors in war |
1953 | Sir Fitzroy Maclean | Irregular warfare |
1954 | Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks | Are we training for the last war? |
1956 | Prof. P.M.S. Blackett |
Atomic weapons, 1945–1955 |
1957 | John Ehrman | Cabinet government and war, 1890–1940 |
1958 | Field Marshal John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton | Mediterranean strategy in the 2nd World War |
1958 | Sir Leslie Rowan | Arms and economics: the changing challenge |
1960 | Capt. Stephen Roskill | Maritime strategy in the twentieth century |
1961 | Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim | The military mind and the spirit of an army |
1962 | Lt. Gen. Sir John Hackett | The profession of arms |
1963 | Dr. Noble Frankland | The strategic air offensive |
1965 | Sir Solly Zuckerman |
Science and military affairs |
1966 | Prof Michael Howard | Conduct of British strategy in the 2nd World War |
1968 | Prof. R.V. Jones |
Command |
1969 | Alastair Buchan | The changing functions of military force in international politics |
1970 | Prof. Geoffrey Best | Conscience and the conduct of war, from the French Revolution through the Franco-Prussian war |
1971 | Prof. F. Harry Hinsley | War and the development of the international system |
1972 | Prof. John Erickson | Soviet soldiers and Soviet society |
1973 | Dr. Piers Mackesy | Problems of an amphibious power 1795–1808 |
1974 | Donald Cameron Watt | European armed forces and the approach of the 2nd World War 1933–39 |
1974 | Prof. Herman Bondi |
Science and defence |
1975 | Dr. R.L. Clutterbuck | Guerilla warfare and political violence |
1977 | Prof. Christopher Thorne |
Anglo-American relations and war against Japan 1941–45 |
1979 | Field-Marshal Lord Carver |
Apostles of mobility |
1981 | Prof. Laurence W. Martin |
Evolution of nuclear strategic doctrine since 1945 |
1983 | Alistair Horne | The French army and politics 1870–1970 |
1985 | Dr. Geoffrey Parker | European warfare 1520–1660 |
1986 | John Keegan | Some fallacies of military history |
1989 | Dr. Alan Bowman | Vindolanda and the Roman Army: New documents from the northern frontier |
1990 | Maurice Keen | English military experience, c.1340 – c.1450 |
1992 | Prof. William Hardy McNeill |
Dance, drill and bonding in human affairs |
1995 | Prof. Hew Strachan | The politics of the British Army 1815–1914 |
1996 | Field-Marshal Sir Peter Inge | Military force in a changing world |
1998 | Prof. Keith Jeffery | ‘For the freedom of small nations’: Ireland and the Great War |
2000 | Prof. Brian Bond | Britain and the First World War: The challenge to historians |
2002 | Antony Beevor | The experience of war |
2004 | Dr. David Parrott | War, Armies, and Politics in Early Modern Europe: The Military Devolution, 1560–1660 |
2006 | Ben Shephard | What Makes a Soldier? And What Does Not? |
2008 | Peter Paret | 1806: The Cognitive Challenge of War |
2010 | The creation of Anglo-American grand strategy 1941–45 The British Navy in the Second World War Air Power in the Second World War: A War Winner? The British Army in the Second World War | |
2012 | Prof. Amir Weiner | Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework |
2013 | ||
2014 | Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles | Folly in foreign policy: On the British misadventure in Afghanistan |
2015 | ||
2016 | Dr. James Howard-Johnston | The Byzantine Art of War |
2018 | Dr. Nicholas Rodger |
The Culture of Naval War, ca 1850 – 1950 |
2020 | Gen. David Petreaus |
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2022 | Prof. Jay Winter | The Civilianization of War |
See also
References
- ^ David Parrott. History Faculty Alumni Newsletter No. 3 (May 2005), University of Oxford, Faculty of History. Retrieved 13 July 2008
- ^ "Obituary: Sir Lees Knowles. A Life of Public Service". The Times. 8 October 1928. p. 18.
- ^ Home > About Trinity > Public Lectures > Lees Knowles Lectures > Past Lees Knowles Lecturers, Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 13 July 2008
Further reading
- Geoffrey Parker (1998). The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500–1800, Sir Lees-Knowles"