The study of imperial and commonwealth history at Cambridge, 1881-1981: Founding fathers and pioneer research students

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 75-103

  Hyam, Ronald ^a  

^a Magdalene College   (United Kingdom)

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2. J. Holland Rose: Dictionary of National Biography, 1941-50 (1959), 736-7.
3. G.M. Trevelyan, 'Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond', Autobiography and Other Essays (London, 1949), 222-34, reprinted from Proceedings of the British Academy, XXXII (1946), 325-37.
4. G.M. Trevelyan, 'Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond', Autobiography and Other Essays (London, 1949), 222-34, reprinted from Proceedings of the British Academy, XXXII (1946), 325-37.
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6. Ken Smith, The Changing Past: Trends in South African Historical Writing (Athens, Ohio, 1989), 121-31; C. Saunders, The Making of the South African Past: Major Historians on Race and Class (Cape Town and Johannesburg, 1988), 112-15.
7. Ged Martin, 'The Cambridge Lectureship of 1866: A False Start in American Studies', American Studies, VII (1973), 17-29.
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9. G.S.R. Kitson Clark, 'A Hundred Years of the Teaching of History at Cambridge, 1873-1973', Historical Journal, XVI (1973), 535-53; J.O. McLachlan, 'The Origin and Early Development of the Cambridge Historical Tripos', Cambridge Historical Journal, IX (1947), 78-105.
10. Sir John Seeley (1834-95): see Dictionary of National Biography (hereafter DNB) (1897), 191; Peter Burroughs, 'John Robert Seeley and British Imperial History', JICH, I (1973), 191-211; Deborah Wormell, Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History (Cambridge, 1980); and comments by C.A. Bayly and Wm. Roger Louis in Robin W. Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire (hereafter OHBE), V, Historiographs (Oxford, 1999), 8-10, 57.
11. Sir John Seeley (1834-95): see Dictionary of National Biography (hereafter DNB) (1897), 191; Peter Burroughs, 'John Robert Seeley and British Imperial History', JICH, I (1973), 191-211; Deborah Wormell, Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History (Cambridge, 1980); and comments by C.A. Bayly and Wm. Roger Louis in Robin W. Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire (hereafter OHBE), V, Historiographs (Oxford, 1999), 8-10, 57.
12. Sir John Seeley (1834-95): see Dictionary of National Biography (hereafter DNB) (1897), 191; Peter Burroughs, 'John Robert Seeley and British Imperial History', JICH, I (1973), 191-211; Deborah Wormell, Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History (Cambridge, 1980); and comments by C.A. Bayly and Wm. Roger Louis in Robin W. Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire (hereafter OHBE), V, Historiographs (Oxford, 1999), 8-10, 57.
13. Sir John Seeley (1834-95): see Dictionary of National Biography (hereafter DNB) (1897), 191; Peter Burroughs, 'John Robert Seeley and British Imperial History', JICH, I (1973), 191-211; Deborah Wormell, Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History (Cambridge, 1980); and comments by C.A. Bayly and Wm. Roger Louis in Robin W. Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire (hereafter OHBE), V, Historiographs (Oxford, 1999), 8-10, 57.
14. Cambridge University Reporter, 33 (1902-3), 528-38, report on the proposed regulations for a tripos in Economics (10 May 1903); 773, discussion (14 May 1903); 1133-4, 'supplementary regulations'.
15. Benians Box, Biographical Collection, St John's College Library, Cambridge.
16. CU Reporter, 37 (1906-7), 70.
17. C.R. Fay, DSc (1884-1961), fellow of Christ's College (1908-22), Reader in Economic History, 1930; formerly professor of economic history at Toronto, 1921-30.
18. F.H. Hinsley, Kt (1985), OBE, FBA (1918-98), Master of St John's College (1979-89) and vice-chancellor (1981-83).
19. H.J Habakkuk, Kt (1976), FBA; born John Guest, 1915, but invented 'Hrothgar' as first name and adopted his mother's surname. An undergraduate at St John's, he had a distinction in Part II (1936); fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1938-50; Chichele professor of economic history, Oxford (1950-67), principal of Jesus College, Oxford (1967-84), and vice-chancellor (1973-77).
20. For an important contemporary evaluation of vol II, see J.W. Davidson, 'The History of Empire', Economic History Review, XVI (1946), 68-73, particularly critical of W.F. Reddaway's contribution. However, it is pleasing to see that in so thoroughly modern, even post-modern, a book as Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire (London, 1999), the editor, R.E. Dumett, praises CHBE II as a 'classic volume' (7, n.13) . For an astringent overall assessment of CHBE, see Wm. Roger Louis in OHBE, V, 11-12, 2
21. For an important contemporary evaluation of vol II, see J.W. Davidson, 'The History of Empire', Economic History Review, XVI (1946), 68-73, particularly critical of W.F. Reddaway's contribution. However, it is pleasing to see that in so thoroughly modern, even post-modern, a book as Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire (London, 1999), the editor, R.E. Dumett, praises CHBE II as a 'classic volume' (7, n.13) . For an astringent overall assessment of CHBE, see Wm. Roger Louis in OHBE, V, 11-12, 2
22. For an important contemporary evaluation of vol II, see J.W. Davidson, 'The History of Empire', Economic History Review, XVI (1946), 68-73, particularly critical of W.F. Reddaway's contribution. However, it is pleasing to see that in so thoroughly modern, even post-modern, a book as Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire (London, 1999), the editor, R.E. Dumett, praises CHBE II as a 'classic volume' (7, n.13) . For an astringent overall assessment of CHBE, see Wm. Roger Louis in OHBE, V, 11-12, 2
23. For an important contemporary evaluation of vol II, see J.W. Davidson, 'The History of Empire', Economic History Review, XVI (1946), 68-73, particularly critical of W.F. Reddaway's contribution. However, it is pleasing to see that in so thoroughly modern, even post-modern, a book as Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire (London, 1999), the editor, R.E. Dumett, praises CHBE II as a 'classic volume' (7, n.13) . For an astringent overall assessment of CHBE, see Wm. Roger Louis in OHBE, V, 11-12, 2
24. These quotations are all taken from his chapter in the Cambridge Modern History, XII, 643-8, 671. In the light of them we can see that making Smuts the university's chancellor (1948) - in which Benians presumably played a leading part - would have seemed an act of expiation: see R. Hyam, 'Smuts, Cambridge, and Commonwealth History', The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 360 (2001), 401-14.
25. These quotations are all taken from his chapter in the Cambridge Modern History, XII, 643-8, 671. In the light of them we can see that making Smuts the university's chancellor (1948) - in which Benians presumably played a leading part - would have seemed an act of expiation: see R. Hyam, 'Smuts, Cambridge, and Commonwealth History', The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 360 (2001), 401-14.
26. Speeches by E.A. Benians, notes, probably for a talk to LSE on 'Universities and the Empire', c. 1940: Mss W 5, St John's College Library. A very similar formulation appears in the preface to CHBE, II, viii.
27. J.S. B[oys] S[mith], 'Ernest Alfred Benians', The Eagle [the magazine of St John's College], LX, no.240 (1953), 4-9; obituary in Cambridge Independent Press, 15 Feb. 1952.
28. J.S. B[oys] S[mith], 'Ernest Alfred Benians', The Eagle [the magazine of St John's College], LX, no.240 (1953), 4-9; obituary in Cambridge Independent Press, 15 Feb. 1952.
29. So named from 1986, reflecting his having inspired the Dominions Fellowship set up in 1946-47 ('Overseas Fellows' file, St John's College Archives, consulted by permission of the Master, Fellows and Scholars).
30. The Great Experiment was Cambridge's first textbook on American history, translated into fourteen languages. Thistlethwaite became the inaugurating vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia. He made a most important contribution to Expansion studies through his work on Atlantic migrations: 'Birds of Passage: Some Aspects of the History of Migration', Reports of the 11th International Congress of Historical Sciences, VI (1960), 32-60, etc.
31. H.W.V. Temperley, OBE, LittD, FBA (1879-1939): DNB, 1931-40 (1949), 849-50. The Foreign Policy of Canning, which I read at the age of sixteen, triggered my own interest in Britain's overseas policy.
32. J.R.M. Butler, Kt., OBE (1889-1975): DNB, 1971-80 (1986), 113-14.
33. G.S.R. Kitson Clark, LittD (1900-1975), ibid., 470.
34. CU Reporter, 39 (1908-9), 4 May 1909, 964-74; see also 'Notes on the development of the Historical Tripos, 1875-1932', Tripos Reform Papers, box I (1875-1955), no. 1, History Faculty Archives, Seeley Library, Cambridge.
35. CU Reporter, 39 (1908-9), 4 May 1909, 964-74; see also 'Notes on the development of the Historical Tripos, 1875-1932', Tripos Reform Papers, box I (1875-1955), no. 1, History Faculty Archives, Seeley Library, Cambridge.
36. R.E. Robinson believed this was the work which 'inspired Kitson Clark' to campaign for the new paper: 'Oxford in Imperial Historiography', in F. Madden and D.K. Fieldhouse (eds.), Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth: Essays Presented to Sir Edgar Williams (London, 1982), 42.
37. CU Reporter, 75 (1944-45), 729-30, 15 May 1945, report of the History Faculty Board on the addition of a paper on the Expansion of Europe (24 April 1945); see also 882-3 for the first prescribed reading list.
38. J.D. Fage, 'British African Studies Since the Second World War: A Personal Account', African Affairs, 88 (1989), 397-413. The paper also attracted Roland Oliver, hoping to study the expansion of Christianity in colonial lands, but in retrospect he did not think it then a well-designed course, 'nor was it taught by any of the more exciting teachers in the university': In the Realms of Gold: Pioneering in African History (London, 1997), 45.
39. J.D. Fage, 'British African Studies Since the Second World War: A Personal Account', African Affairs, 88 (1989), 397-413. The paper also attracted Roland Oliver, hoping to study the expansion of Christianity in colonial lands, but in retrospect he did not think it then a well-designed course, 'nor was it taught by any of the more exciting teachers in the university': In the Realms of Gold: Pioneering in African History (London, 1997), 45.
40. Anil Seal in the preface to J.A. Gallagher, Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire: The Ford Lectures and Other Essays (Cambridge, 1982), xvi.
41. T.G.P. Spear, OBE (d. 1982), originally from St Catharine's, took a doctorate in Indian history before spending twenty years in India, becoming head of the history departments at St Stephen's College, Delhi, and Delhi University. During the war he was in the Government Information Service at Delhi and briefly government whip in the legislative assembly. In recognition of many years' contribution to faculty lecturing, in 1963 he was appointed to a single-tenure five-year lectureship which took him to retirement in 1968. See Selwyn College Calendar (1983-84), 23, 'Obituaries: Dr T.G.P. Spear'; and C.A. Bayly, 'The Orient: British Historical Writing about Asia since 1890', in Peter Burke (ed.), History and Historians (forthcoming). The Spear Papers are in the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge. His best-known book is India, a Modern History (Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1961, new edn. 1972).
42. T.G.P. Spear, OBE (d. 1982), originally from St Catharine's, took a doctorate in Indian history before spending twenty years in India, becoming head of the history departments at St Stephen's College, Delhi, and Delhi University. During the war he was in the Government Information Service at Delhi and briefly government whip in the legislative assembly. In recognition of many years' contribution to faculty lecturing, in 1963 he was appointed to a single-tenure five-year lectureship which took him to retirement in 1968. See Selwyn College Calendar (1983-84), 23, 'Obituaries: Dr T.G.P. Spear'; and C.A. Bayly, 'The Orient: British Historical Writing about Asia since 1890', in Peter Burke (ed.), History and Historians (forthcoming). The Spear Papers are in the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge. His best-known book is India, a Modern History (Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1961, new edn. 1972).
43. T.G.P. Spear, OBE (d. 1982), originally from St Catharine's, took a doctorate in Indian history before spending twenty years in India, becoming head of the history departments at St Stephen's College, Delhi, and Delhi University. During the war he was in the Government Information Service at Delhi and briefly government whip in the legislative assembly. In recognition of many years' contribution to faculty lecturing, in 1963 he was appointed to a single-tenure five-year lectureship which took him to retirement in 1968. See Selwyn College Calendar (1983-84), 23, 'Obituaries: Dr T.G.P. Spear'; and C.A. Bayly, 'The Orient: British Historical Writing about Asia since 1890', in Peter Burke (ed.), History and Historians (forthcoming). The Spear Papers are in the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge. His best-known book is India, a Modern History (Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1961, new edn. 1972).
44. J.H. Parry, CMG, MBE (1914-82), Fellow of Clare, 1938-49; Royal Navy, 1940-45, first professor of modern history, University College of the West Indies, 1949-56, principal of University College, Ibadan, 1956-60, and of Swansea 1960-65, vice-chancellor of University of Wales, 1963-65, Gardiner Professor of oceanic history and affairs, Harvard, 1965-82; author of The Spanish Theory of Empire in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 1940)
45. and The Age of Reconnaissance (London, 1963); recreations, 'sailing, fishing, mountain walking, ornithology'.
46. J.W. Davidson (1915-1973), fellow of St John's College, 1944-51, professor of Pacific history, Australian National University, 1949-73. Dr Doug Munro is writing a full-scale biography of Davidson, and has been of the greatest possible assistance, not least with supplying copies of letters in the Davidson Papers in the National Library of Australia at Canberra, and allowing me to see various papers in draft, particularly Doug Munro, 'J.W. Davidson: the making of a participant historian', in B.V. Lal and P. Hempenstall (eds.), Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Changing Boundaries in Pacific History (forthcoming).
47. Davidson's referees were Benians, Kitson Clark, the historical geographer H.C. Darby, the anthropologist Dr Raymond Firth, and Margery Perham (application dated 24 July 1946, Lectures and Lecturers records, Box 1, no 3, 1946, History Faculty Archives).
48. E.V.G. Kiernan, double starred first (1933, 1934), author British Diplomacy in China, 1880-85 (Cambridge, 1939) and two volumes of Urdu poetry; eight years in India, then returned to Cambridge for two years, before going to Edinburgh (becoming professor of history) - a charming Marxist, author of The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to the Outside World (London, 1969) and European Empires from Conquest to Collapse: 1815-1960 (London, 1982).
49. E.V.G. Kiernan, double starred first (1933, 1934), author British Diplomacy in China, 1880-85 (Cambridge, 1939) and two volumes of Urdu poetry; eight years in India, then returned to Cambridge for two years, before going to Edinburgh (becoming professor of history) - a charming Marxist, author of The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to the Outside World (London, 1969) and European Empires from Conquest to Collapse: 1815-1960 (London, 1982).
50. E.V.G. Kiernan, double starred first (1933, 1934), author British Diplomacy in China, 1880-85 (Cambridge, 1939) and two volumes of Urdu poetry; eight years in India, then returned to Cambridge for two years, before going to Edinburgh (becoming professor of history) - a charming Marxist, author of The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to the Outside World (London, 1969) and European Empires from Conquest to Collapse: 1815-1960 (London, 1982).
51. JWD to his mother, 6 July 1948 (Box 65, Davidson Papers, Xerox copy supplied by Doug Munro).
52. J.W. Davidson, The Study of Pacific History: an Inaugural Lecture (ANU, Canberra, 1955). A more than usually inspiring example of the genre, it was reprinted with revisions (and omitting the paragraph about the Expansion of Europe in Cambridge) as 'Problems of Pacific History' in the inaugural number of the Journal of Pacific History, I (1966), 5-21. For further examples of Davidson's synoptic flair, see 'New Zealand, 1820-1870: An Essay in Re-interpretation', Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, V (1953), 349-59, and 'Scholarship and the Government of Colonies', ibid., VII (1957), 406-20 (a study of Raffles, Sir George Grey, and Arthur Hamilton Gordon), together with 'China, Japan and the Pacific, 1900-31' in New Cambridge Modern History, XII 1898-1945 (2nd edn, 1968, ed. C.L. Mowat), 329-72 (co-author); see also n. 14 above.
53. J.W. Davidson, The Study of Pacific History: an Inaugural Lecture (ANU, Canberra, 1955). A more than usually inspiring example of the genre, it was reprinted with revisions (and omitting the paragraph about the Expansion of Europe in Cambridge) as 'Problems of Pacific History' in the inaugural number of the Journal of Pacific History, I (1966), 5-21. For further examples of Davidson's synoptic flair, see 'New Zealand, 1820-1870: An Essay in Re-interpretation', Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, V (1953), 349-59, and 'Scholarship and the Government of Colonies', ibid., VII (1957), 406-20 (a study of Raffles, Sir George Grey, and Arthur Hamilton Gordon), together with 'China, Japan and the Pacific, 1900-31' in New Cambridge Modern History, XII 1898-1945 (2nd edn, 1968, ed. C.L. Mowat), 329-72 (co-author); see also n. 14 above.
54. J.W. Davidson, The Study of Pacific History: an Inaugural Lecture (ANU, Canberra, 1955). A more than usually inspiring example of the genre, it was reprinted with revisions (and omitting the paragraph about the Expansion of Europe in Cambridge) as 'Problems of Pacific History' in the inaugural number of the Journal of Pacific History, I (1966), 5-21. For further examples of Davidson's synoptic flair, see 'New Zealand, 1820-1870: An Essay in Re-interpretation', Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, V (1953), 349-59, and 'Scholarship and the Government of Colonies', ibid., VII (1957), 406-20 (a study of Raffles, Sir George Grey, and Arthur Hamilton Gordon), together with 'China, Japan and the Pacific, 1900-31' in New Cambridge Modern History, XII 1898-1945 (2nd edn, 1968, ed. C.L. Mowat), 329-72 (co-author); see also n. 14 above.
55. J.W. Davidson, The Study of Pacific History: an Inaugural Lecture (ANU, Canberra, 1955). A more than usually inspiring example of the genre, it was reprinted with revisions (and omitting the paragraph about the Expansion of Europe in Cambridge) as 'Problems of Pacific History' in the inaugural number of the Journal of Pacific History, I (1966), 5-21. For further examples of Davidson's synoptic flair, see 'New Zealand, 1820-1870: An Essay in Re-interpretation', Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, V (1953), 349-59, and 'Scholarship and the Government of Colonies', ibid., VII (1957), 406-20 (a study of Raffles, Sir George Grey, and Arthur Hamilton Gordon), together with 'China, Japan and the Pacific, 1900-31' in New Cambridge Modern History, XII 1898-1945 (2nd edn, 1968, ed. C.L. Mowat), 329-72 (co-author); see also n. 14 above.
56. J.W. Davidson, The Study of Pacific History: an Inaugural Lecture (ANU, Canberra, 1955). A more than usually inspiring example of the genre, it was reprinted with revisions (and omitting the paragraph about the Expansion of Europe in Cambridge) as 'Problems of Pacific History' in the inaugural number of the Journal of Pacific History, I (1966), 5-21. For further examples of Davidson's synoptic flair, see 'New Zealand, 1820-1870: An Essay in Re-interpretation', Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, V (1953), 349-59, and 'Scholarship and the Government of Colonies', ibid., VII (1957), 406-20 (a study of Raffles, Sir George Grey, and Arthur Hamilton Gordon), together with 'China, Japan and the Pacific, 1900-31' in New Cambridge Modern History, XII 1898-1945 (2nd edn, 1968, ed. C.L. Mowat), 329-72 (co-author); see also n. 14 above.
57. Hancock was the examiner for his MA thesis on the Scandinavians in New Zealand.
58. Walker believed that the history of South Africa must be concerned with the 'adjustment of the mutual relations' between 'Western civilization, tribal Africa, and to a less degree, theocratic Asia' (A History of South Africa, London, 2nd edn., 1940, preface, vi), but unfortunately he never managed to live up to this in practice. Walker thought highly of Davidson, arguing strongly for him to get the Oxford Beit Chair instead of V.T. Harlow (who did not impress Walker: conversation with EAW, 1962), in May 1948 (JWD to his mother, 23 May 1948, MS 5105, box 65, Davidson Papers, Xerox copy courtesy of Dr Munro). Walker further hoped that Davidson would succeed him in the Vere Harmsworth chair (to which E.E. Rich was elected).
59. G. Shepperson, P.E.H. Hair and Doug Munro, 'J.W. Davidson at Cambridge: Some Student Evaluations', History in Africa: a Journal of Method, 27 (New Brunswick NJ, 2000), 215-27. I am most grateful to Professor Shepperson and Dr Munro for allowing me to see this article in draft. The Biographical Collection in St John's College Library has a useful box of Davidsoniana, mostly built up from photocopies supplied by Dr Munro.
60. P.E.H. Hair was Ramsey Muir Professor of modern history at Liverpool, 1979-90, arriving at African history via research on the British and then Nigerian coal industries; he specialised on using Portuguese sources and studying early African languages - see Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence, 1450-1700 (Aldershot, 1997). For Shepperson, see n.60 below.
61. The literature on Davidson is already considerable. Of the obituaries, the most critical is F. West, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', JICH, II (1973), 114-17; see also H.E. Maude, 'James Wightman Davidson', Journal of Pacific History, VIII (1973), 5-9; D. Scarr, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', Historical Studies, XVI (1974), 157-61, repr. in Journal of Pacific History, XXVIII, no. 2 (1993), special issue in honour of J.W. Davidson on the twentieth anniversary of his death, important for the Bibliography compiled by H. Forster, 278-81.
62. The literature on Davidson is already considerable. Of the obituaries, the most critical is F. West, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', JICH, II (1973), 114-17; see also H.E. Maude, 'James Wightman Davidson', Journal of Pacific History, VIII (1973), 5-9; D. Scarr, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', Historical Studies, XVI (1974), 157-61, repr. in Journal of Pacific History, XXVIII, no. 2 (1993), special issue in honour of J.W. Davidson on the twentieth anniversary of his death, important for the Bibliography compiled by H. Forster, 278-81.
63. The literature on Davidson is already considerable. Of the obituaries, the most critical is F. West, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', JICH, II (1973), 114-17; see also H.E. Maude, 'James Wightman Davidson', Journal of Pacific History, VIII (1973), 5-9; D. Scarr, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', Historical Studies, XVI (1974), 157-61, repr. in Journal of Pacific History, XXVIII, no. 2 (1993), special issue in honour of J.W. Davidson on the twentieth anniversary of his death, important for the Bibliography compiled by H. Forster, 278-81.
64. The literature on Davidson is already considerable. Of the obituaries, the most critical is F. West, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', JICH, II (1973), 114-17; see also H.E. Maude, 'James Wightman Davidson', Journal of Pacific History, VIII (1973), 5-9; D. Scarr, 'Obituary: James Wightman Davidson', Historical Studies, XVI (1974), 157-61, repr. in Journal of Pacific History, XXVIII, no. 2 (1993), special issue in honour of J.W. Davidson on the twentieth anniversary of his death, important for the Bibliography compiled by H. Forster, 278-81.
65. Angus Ross, PhD 1949, published version, New Zealand Aspirations in the Pacific in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1964).
66. Deeree Committee Minute Book, vol. III, f. 58, History Faculty Archives.
67. This was not an easy post to fill, and the first attempt failed in July 1948 after the withdrawal of Kiernan, leaving only Spear and G.M. Friters as candidates; Purcell was appointed after interview (very unusual in those days) in April 1949; after his retirement in 1963 he was not replaced (Box on Appointments, 1929-73, Minute Book of the Appointments Committee, 90, 96, History Faculty Archives).
68. V.W.W. Purcell, CMG, LittD (1896-1965); see his Memoirs of a Malayan Official (London, 1965), ch. 5, 'Cambridge'; S. van der Sprenkel, 'Memoir', in J. Ch'eng and N. Tarling (eds.), Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell (Cambridge, 1970), 3-20; for sympathetic sidelights see T.N. Harper, The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya (Cambridge, 1999), 58, 83, 276, 311.
69. V.W.W. Purcell, CMG, LittD (1896-1965); see his Memoirs of a Malayan Official (London, 1965), ch. 5, 'Cambridge'; S. van der Sprenkel, 'Memoir', in J. Ch'eng and N. Tarling (eds.), Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell (Cambridge, 1970), 3-20; for sympathetic sidelights see T.N. Harper, The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya (Cambridge, 1999), 58, 83, 276, 311.
70. V.W.W. Purcell, CMG, LittD (1896-1965); see his Memoirs of a Malayan Official (London, 1965), ch. 5, 'Cambridge'; S. van der Sprenkel, 'Memoir', in J. Ch'eng and N. Tarling (eds.), Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell (Cambridge, 1970), 3-20; for sympathetic sidelights see T.N. Harper, The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya (Cambridge, 1999), 58, 83, 276, 311.
71. Stokes ran a popular course for Expansion on 'theories of imperialism', which Robinson asked him to give, in order, he said, 'to provide intellectual respectability' to the subject. The CU Reporter is the source for all details about lecture courses.
72. G.V. Scammell, undergraduate at Emmanuel College; served with the Royal Navy in the eastern seas, 1942-46; lecturer at Durham; fellow of Pembroke College, 1965; author of The World Encompassed: the First European Maritime Empires, c.800-1650 (London, 1981), The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, c. 1400-1715 (London, 1989); Ships, Oceans and Empire: Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750 (London, 1995); and most recently a striking synoptic survey, 'After Da Gama: Europe and Asia since 1498', Modern Asian Studies, 34 (2000), 513-43.
73. G.V. Scammell, undergraduate at Emmanuel College; served with the Royal Navy in the eastern seas, 1942-46; lecturer at Durham; fellow of Pembroke College, 1965; author of The World Encompassed: the First European Maritime Empires, c.800-1650 (London, 1981), The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, c. 1400-1715 (London, 1989); Ships, Oceans and Empire: Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750 (London, 1995); and most recently a striking synoptic survey, 'After Da Gama: Europe and Asia since 1498', Modern Asian Studies, 34 (2000), 513-43.
74. G.V. Scammell, undergraduate at Emmanuel College; served with the Royal Navy in the eastern seas, 1942-46; lecturer at Durham; fellow of Pembroke College, 1965; author of The World Encompassed: the First European Maritime Empires, c.800-1650 (London, 1981), The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, c. 1400-1715 (London, 1989); Ships, Oceans and Empire: Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750 (London, 1995); and most recently a striking synoptic survey, 'After Da Gama: Europe and Asia since 1498', Modern Asian Studies, 34 (2000), 513-43.
75. G.V. Scammell, undergraduate at Emmanuel College; served with the Royal Navy in the eastern seas, 1942-46; lecturer at Durham; fellow of Pembroke College, 1965; author of The World Encompassed: the First European Maritime Empires, c.800-1650 (London, 1981), The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, c. 1400-1715 (London, 1989); Ships, Oceans and Empire: Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750 (London, 1995); and most recently a striking synoptic survey, 'After Da Gama: Europe and Asia since 1498', Modern Asian Studies, 34 (2000), 513-43.
76. G. Johnson (b. 1943), fellow of Trinity College (1966-74), lecturer in the history of South Asia (1974), president of Wolfson College, Cambridge, since 1994, director of the South Asian Studies Centre (to 2001), editor of Modern Asian Studies (since 1971); his thesis was published as Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism: Bombay and the Indian National Congress, 1880-1915 (Cambridge, 1973).
77. G. Johnson (b. 1943), fellow of Trinity College (1966-74), lecturer in the history of South Asia (1974), president of Wolfson College, Cambridge, since 1994, director of the South Asian Studies Centre (to 2001), editor of Modern Asian Studies (since 1971); his thesis was published as Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism: Bombay and the Indian National Congress, 1880-1915 (Cambridge, 1973).
78. C.A. Bayly, LittD, FBA, Vere Harmsworth professor since 1992. His landmark work Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870 was published in 1983.
79. D.A. Brading, LittD, FBA, professor of Mexican history (1999). John Street had a double first in Spanish (1942, 1946) and completed a PhD on 'British Influences in the Independence of the River Plate Provinces, 1806-16'; his opportunity came with the departure of J.H. Parry in 1949. Street was succeeded by D.C.M. Platt, an Oxford man who held the lectureship from 1969 to 1972, before taking up the chair of Latin American history in Oxford; he died in 1989, aged 55.
80. CU Reporter, passim.
81. C.B.A. Behrens (1904-89), fellow of Newnham College and then of Clare Hall, university lecturer in history from 1938, author of two masterpieces in unrelated fields: Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War (London, HMSO, 1955) and Society, Government and the Enlightenment: The Experiences of Eighteenth-Century France and Prussia (London 1985). Sir Keith Hancock told me, c.1964, that he regarded her as the best and most brilliant historian in post-war Cambridge, and I was happy to concur. She discomfited Regius Professor Sir Herbert Butterfield to his face
82. C.B.A. Behrens (1904-89), fellow of Newnham College and then of Clare Hall, university lecturer in history from 1938, author of two masterpieces in unrelated fields: Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War (London, HMSO, 1955) and Society, Government and the Enlightenment: The Experiences of Eighteenth-Century France and Prussia (London 1985). Sir Keith Hancock told me, c.1964, that he regarded her as the best and most brilliant historian in post-war Cambridge, and I was happy to concur. She discomfited Regius Professor Sir Herbert Butterfield to his face
83. and destroyed Regius Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton's The Practice of History in a review in the Historical Journal, XII (1969), 190-93.
84. See Noel Annan, The Dons : Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (London, 1999), 245-55;
85. Jonathan Steinberg, 'Based on Fact but Told Like a Novel': the Historical Legacy of C.B.A. Behrens (a memorial lecture, Newnham College, Cambridge, 1989);
86. Jonathan Haslam, The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892-1982 (London and New York, 1999), 228-95, passim, for her disastrous marriage in 1966 to E.H. Carr.
87. This section on research students is based mainly on the History Faculty Degree Committee Minute Books, vols. I-IV (1922-50), and the dissertations index, Manuscripts Room, Cambridge University Library, together with personal knowledge. I have usually noted 'double firsts' obtained as an undergraduate, since these are distinctly less common in the academic community than doctorates.
88. Roland Oliver, In the Realms of Gold : Pioneering in African History (London, 1997), 49: 'I do not think that any research student in any of the universities in which I have subsequently taught was ever subjected to quite the tests of self-reliance cultivated in post-war Cambridge.'
89. G.S. Graham (1903-88), professor of history, Queen's University, Canada (1936-46), Rhodes professor of imperial history, London (1949-70); his best known book is probably Empire of the North Atlantic (Toronto, 1950, 1959); for an assessment, see OHBE, V, 332-4.
90. G.S. Graham (1903-88), professor of history, Queen's University, Canada (1936-46), Rhodes professor of imperial history, London (1949-70); his best known book is probably Empire of the North Atlantic (Toronto, 1950, 1959); for an assessment, see OHBE, V, 332-4.
91. Published as Bismarck and British Colonial Policy: The Problem of South-West Africa, 1883-1885 (Philadelphia, 1937).
92. Published as The Berlin West African Conference, 1884-1885 (London, 1942) : 'still the standard work' (A.D. Roberts, OHBE, V, 470), which 'convincingly demolished many nostrums' (J.E. Flint, ibid., 455).
93. Published as The Berlin West African Conference, 1884-1885 (London, 1942) : 'still the standard work' (A.D. Roberts, OHBE, V, 470), which 'convincingly demolished many nostrums' (J.E. Flint, ibid., 455).
94. Published as The Berlin West African Conference, 1884-1885 (London, 1942) : 'still the standard work' (A.D. Roberts, OHBE, V, 470), which 'convincingly demolished many nostrums' (J.E. Flint, ibid., 455).
95. R.A. Humphreys, OBE, DLitt (b. 1907), professor of Latin American history, London (1948-74), president of the Royal Historical Society (1964-68).
96. Published as British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-1842 (Cambridge, 1951).
97. C. Northcote Parkinson, famous for Parkinson's Law: the Pursuit of Progress (London, 1958); published his thesis as Trade in the Eastern Seas (Cambridge, 1937); professor of history at Singapore (1950-58); author of British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1870 (Singapore, 1960); recreations 'painting, travel, sailing, badminton'.
98. C. Northcote Parkinson, famous for Parkinson's Law: the Pursuit of Progress (London, 1958); published his thesis as Trade in the Eastern Seas (Cambridge, 1937); professor of history at Singapore (1950-58); author of British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1870 (Singapore, 1960); recreations 'painting, travel, sailing, badminton'.
99. C. Northcote Parkinson, famous for Parkinson's Law: the Pursuit of Progress (London, 1958); published his thesis as Trade in the Eastern Seas (Cambridge, 1937); professor of history at Singapore (1950-58); author of British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1870 (Singapore, 1960); recreations 'painting, travel, sailing, badminton'.
100. H.S. Ferns (1913-92), professor of political science, Birmingham (1961-81), thesis published as Britain and Argentina in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1960); recreations, 'journalism, idling, pottering about'.
101. G.A. Shepperson, CBE (b. 1922), King's African Rifles (1942-46); emeritus professor of Commonwealth and American history, Edinburgh; author (with T. Price), Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Rising of 1915 (Edinburgh, 1958, 5th edn 1987).
102. K. Ballhatchet, Reader in Indian History at Oxford, then professor at SOAS; author of Social Policy and Social Change in Western India, 1817-1830 (London, 1957), and Race, Sex and Class Under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Their Critics, 1793-1905 (London, 1980).
103. K. Ballhatchet, Reader in Indian History at Oxford, then professor at SOAS; author of Social Policy and Social Change in Western India, 1817-1830 (London, 1957), and Race, Sex and Class Under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Their Critics, 1793-1905 (London, 1980).
104. J.D. Fage, 'British African Studies Since the Second World War', African Affairs, 88 (1989), 397.
105. J.D. Fage (b 1921): Lecturer at SOAS, London (1959-63), professor of African history, Birmingham (1963-84); with R. Oliver, co-founder and co-editor of Journal of African History (1960) and of Cambridge History of Africa (7 vols, 1975-86), and co-author of the Penguin Short History of Africa (1962: seven edns, translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Afrikaans, and Japanese, etc.); recreation 'doing things to houses and gardens'. See: J.D. Fage, 'Reflections on the Genesis of Anglophone African History after World War Two', History in Africa, 20 (1993), 15-26; D.R., 'John Donnelly Fage', Journal of African History, 27 (1986), 193-201 (Festschrift); Tutorial Files, H/FRS/JDF (references from Benians, Walker and Turner, 1946-48) Magdalene College Archives.
106. J.D. Fage (b 1921): Lecturer at SOAS, London (1959-63), professor of African history, Birmingham (1963-84); with R. Oliver, co-founder and co-editor of Journal of African History (1960) and of Cambridge History of Africa (7 vols, 1975-86), and co-author of the Penguin Short History of Africa (1962: seven edns, translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Afrikaans, and Japanese, etc.); recreation 'doing things to houses and gardens'. See: J.D. Fage, 'Reflections on the Genesis of Anglophone African History after World War Two', History in Africa, 20 (1993), 15-26; D.R., 'John Donnelly Fage', Journal of African History, 27 (1986), 193-201 (Festschrift); Tutorial Files, H/FRS/JDF (references from Benians, Walker and Turner, 1946-48) Magdalene College Archives.
107. J.D. Fage (b 1921): Lecturer at SOAS, London (1959-63), professor of African history, Birmingham (1963-84); with R. Oliver, co-founder and co-editor of Journal of African History (1960) and of Cambridge History of Africa (7 vols, 1975-86), and co-author of the Penguin Short History of Africa (1962: seven edns, translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Afrikaans, and Japanese, etc.); recreation 'doing things to houses and gardens'. See: J.D. Fage, 'Reflections on the Genesis of Anglophone African History after World War Two', History in Africa, 20 (1993), 15-26; D.R., 'John Donnelly Fage', Journal of African History, 27 (1986), 193-201 (Festschrift); Tutorial Files, H/FRS/JDF (references from Benians, Walker and Turner, 1946-48) Magdalene College Archives.
108. J.D. Fage (b 1921): Lecturer at SOAS, London (1959-63), professor of African history, Birmingham (1963-84); with R. Oliver, co-founder and co-editor of Journal of African History (1960) and of Cambridge History of Africa (7 vols, 1975-86), and co-author of the Penguin Short History of Africa (1962: seven edns, translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Afrikaans, and Japanese, etc.); recreation 'doing things to houses and gardens'. See: J.D. Fage, 'Reflections on the Genesis of Anglophone African History after World War Two', History in Africa, 20 (1993), 15-26; D.R., 'John Donnelly Fage', Journal of African History, 27 (1986), 193-201 (Festschrift); Tutorial Files, H/FRS/JDF (references from Benians, Walker and Turner, 1946-48) Magdalene College Archives.
109. J.D. Fage (b 1921): Lecturer at SOAS, London (1959-63), professor of African history, Birmingham (1963-84); with R. Oliver, co-founder and co-editor of Journal of African History (1960) and of Cambridge History of Africa (7 vols, 1975-86), and co-author of the Penguin Short History of Africa (1962: seven edns, translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Afrikaans, and Japanese, etc.); recreation 'doing things to houses and gardens'. See: J.D. Fage, 'Reflections on the Genesis of Anglophone African History after World War Two', History in Africa, 20 (1993), 15-26; D.R., 'John Donnelly Fage', Journal of African History, 27 (1986), 193-201 (Festschrift); Tutorial Files, H/FRS/JDF (references from Benians, Walker and Turner, 1946-48) Magdalene College Archives.
110. Magdalene Bye-Fellowships were normally for one year only, but in all other respects the same as Research Fellowships, normally of three years duration; at this time the College elected to one Research Fellowship once every three years. Fage was a Bye-Fellow, 1947-49.
111. In 1948 Gallagher and Fage gave a joint course of eight lectures on Africa, and this pilot scheme became a formal proposal for the Lent Term of 1949, with Gallagher down to give the first four lectures on 'European political and economic penetration of West Africa', and Fage the next four on 'European settlement and native problems in Central and East Africa', CU Reporter, 79 (1948-49), 1072; Fage's were never given. I'm not sure this quite justifies the claim by A.D. Roberts that these were the first lectures on tropical Africa in Cambridge (OHBE, V, 477), since Walker had anticipated them.
112. In 1948 Gallagher and Fage gave a joint course of eight lectures on Africa, and this pilot scheme became a formal proposal for the Lent Term of 1949, with Gallagher down to give the first four lectures on 'European political and economic penetration of West Africa', and Fage the next four on 'European settlement and native problems in Central and East Africa', CU Reporter, 79 (1948-49), 1072; Fage's were never given. I'm not sure this quite justifies the claim by A.D. Roberts that these were the first lectures on tropical Africa in Cambridge (OHBE, V, 477), since Walker had anticipated them.
113. Roland Oliver (b.1923 at Srinagar, Kashmir), published his thesis as The Missionary Factor in East Africa (London, 1952); he spent the war years at Bletchley Park; and after Cambridge, his entire career at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, being professor of the history of Africa, 1963-86. He supervised 42 theses, of which 26 were published. See M.C., 'Roland Oliver', Journal of African History, XXIX (1988), 1-4, special issue in honour of Roland Oliver, and R. Oliver, In the Realms of Gold.
114. Roland Oliver (b.1923 at Srinagar, Kashmir), published his thesis as The Missionary Factor in East Africa (London, 1952); he spent the war years at Bletchley Park; and after Cambridge, his entire career at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, being professor of the history of Africa, 1963-86. He supervised 42 theses, of which 26 were published. See M.C., 'Roland Oliver', Journal of African History, XXIX (1988), 1-4, special issue in honour of Roland Oliver, and R. Oliver, In the Realms of Gold.
115. Roland Oliver (b.1923 at Srinagar, Kashmir), published his thesis as The Missionary Factor in East Africa (London, 1952); he spent the war years at Bletchley Park; and after Cambridge, his entire career at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, being professor of the history of Africa, 1963-86. He supervised 42 theses, of which 26 were published. See M.C., 'Roland Oliver', Journal of African History, XXIX (1988), 1-4, special issue in honour of Roland Oliver, and R. Oliver, In the Realms of Gold.
116. 'The Moral Disarmament of African Empire, 1919-1947', in N. Hillmer and P. Wigley (eds.), The First British Commonwealth; Essays in Honour of Nicholas Mansergh (London, 1980), 86-104, repr. from JICH, VIII.
117. 'The Moral Disarmament of African Empire, 1919-1947', in N. Hillmer and P. Wigley (eds.), The First British Commonwealth; Essays in Honour of Nicholas Mansergh (London, 1980), 86-104, repr. from JICH, VIII.
118. H.R. Tinker (1921-2000), scholar of Sidney Sussex College, captain in Indian Army (1941-45), professor of history at Rangoon, Cornell, London; director of the Institute of Race Relations (1970-72), professor of politics, Lancaster (1977-82); thesis published as The Foundations of Local Self-Government in India, Pakistan and Burma (London, 1954). He twice stood at general elections as a Liberal candidate. Tinker's son, David, was killed in the Falklands War, 1982; three years later Tinker completed A Message from the Falklands: The Life and Gallant Death of David, Lieutenant RN, which became one of the most powerful anti-war classics of the century. See Sidney Sussex College Annual (2000), 115-16.
119. H.R. Tinker (1921-2000), scholar of Sidney Sussex College, captain in Indian Army (1941-45), professor of history at Rangoon, Cornell, London; director of the Institute of Race Relations (1970-72), professor of politics, Lancaster (1977-82); thesis published as The Foundations of Local Self-Government in India, Pakistan and Burma (London, 1954). He twice stood at general elections as a Liberal candidate. Tinker's son, David, was killed in the Falklands War, 1982; three years later Tinker completed A Message from the Falklands: The Life and Gallant Death of David, Lieutenant RN, which became one of the most powerful anti-war classics of the century. See Sidney Sussex College Annual (2000), 115-16.
120. H.R. Tinker (1921-2000), scholar of Sidney Sussex College, captain in Indian Army (1941-45), professor of history at Rangoon, Cornell, London; director of the Institute of Race Relations (1970-72), professor of politics, Lancaster (1977-82); thesis published as The Foundations of Local Self-Government in India, Pakistan and Burma (London, 1954). He twice stood at general elections as a Liberal candidate. Tinker's son, David, was killed in the Falklands War, 1982; three years later Tinker completed A Message from the Falklands: The Life and Gallant Death of David, Lieutenant RN, which became one of the most powerful anti-war classics of the century. See Sidney Sussex College Annual (2000), 115-16.
121. J.C. Ch'eng began his research under Victor Kiernan; his thesis was published as Chinese Sources for the Taiping Rebellion (Hong Kong, 1963).
122. [P.] N. Tarling, LittD; thesis first published in Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 30, no. 3 (1957), repr. as British Policy in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 1824-1871 (Kuala Lumpur, 1969); emeritus professor of history, University of Auckland; editor of the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (2 vols., 1992).
123. [P.] N. Tarling, LittD; thesis first published in Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 30, no. 3 (1957), repr. as British Policy in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 1824-1871 (Kuala Lumpur, 1969); emeritus professor of history, University of Auckland; editor of the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (2 vols., 1992).
124. [P.] N. Tarling, LittD; thesis first published in Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 30, no. 3 (1957), repr. as British Policy in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 1824-1871 (Kuala Lumpur, 1969); emeritus professor of history, University of Auckland; editor of the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (2 vols., 1992).
125. W. David McIntyre, OBE: emeritus professor of history at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; his London thesis was published as The Imperial Frontier in the Tropics, 1865-1875 (London, 1967).
126. R.T. Anstey, who wrote a thesis on the Congo and was the author of The Atlantic Slave Trade and its British Abolition, 1760-1810 (London, 1975), died young, the first professor of modern history at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
127. J.E. Flint, professor emeritus of history at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia; his thesis was published as Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria (London, 1956).
128. W.D. Tordoff, supervised by G.S. Graham; thesis published as Ashanti Under the Prempehs, 1888-1935 (Oxford 1965);
129. author of Government and Politics in Africa (London, 1984, 1993); professor of politics at Dar es Salaam, Zambia and Manchester.
130. [J.] Richard Gray, professor of African history, University of London, 1972-89, in succession to Roland Oliver, his former supervisor; author of History of the Southern Sudan, 1839-1889 (Oxford, 1961).
131. W.H. Morris-Jones (1918-99), a graduate of LSE working at Christ's College on political thought, supervised by Professor Sir Ernest Barker; Lieut-Colonel Indian Army (1941-46), professor of political theory, Durham (1955), professor of Commonwealth history and director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 1966-83. He specialised in Indian politics.
132. Double first (1938, with distinction, 1939); author of East Indian Economic Problems in the Age of Cornwallis and Raffles (London, 1961).
133. Author of A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong (New York, 1993, London, 1997), and A History of South Africa (London, 1998), written after a business career.
134. Author of A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong (New York, 1993, London, 1997), and A History of South Africa (London, 1998), written after a business career.
135. David Cannadine, LittD, director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, author of Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (London, 2001), a Clare College student (double first, 1971, 1972, starred in Part I, later a fellow of Christ's), supervised in Part II Commonwealth history by Ged Martin.
136. Published as Trade and Empire in Western India, 1784-1806 (Cambridge, 1970).
137. A.J.S. Reid, professor of Southeast Asian history, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU. That other pioneer Indonesian specialist, Benedict Anderson, read Classics (double first, 1956, 1957) at King's.
138. G.W. Martin, president of the Cambridge Union, research fellow of Magdalene College (1970-72), director of the Centre of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh and professor of Canadian studies (to 2001); author of Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-1867 (Basingstoke, 1995).
139. Gavin's important thesis remained unpublished, to the detriment of almost every biography of Palmerston; something of his approach may however be seen in his review article, 'Palmerston and Africa', Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, VI (Ibadan,1971), 93-99, criticising Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston. Gavin taught for many years at Zaria before returning to Ulster. With R.A. Betley he edited documents on the Berlin West Africa Conference in 1973, and he published Aden under British Rule, 1839-1967 (London, 1975).
140. Gavin's important thesis remained unpublished, to the detriment of almost every biography of Palmerston; something of his approach may however be seen in his review article, 'Palmerston and Africa', Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, VI (Ibadan,1971), 93-99, criticising Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston. Gavin taught for many years at Zaria before returning to Ulster. With R.A. Betley he edited documents on the Berlin West Africa Conference in 1973, and he published Aden under British Rule, 1839-1967 (London, 1975).
141. B.J. Porter, fellow of Corpus Christi College, 1966-68; professor of modern history, University of Newcastle (1992); author of The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, 1850-1970 (first edn, London, 1975).
142. Published as The Aftermath of Revolt: India, 1857-1870 (Princeton NJ, 1965); Metcalf had to abandon the first sixty pages of his thesis, as it was pre-empted by Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India (Oxford, 1959); he is now professor of the history of India and the British Empire at the University of California, Berkeley.
143. Published as The Aftermath of Revolt: India, 1857-1870 (Princeton NJ, 1965); Metcalf had to abandon the first sixty pages of his thesis, as it was pre-empted by Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India (Oxford, 1959); he is now professor of the history of India and the British Empire at the University of California, Berkeley.
144. J.M. Lonsdale, fellow of Trinity College, Reader in African history.
145. J. Iliffe, LittD, FBA, fellow of St John's College, professor of African history.
146. Published as The Conquest of the Western Sudan: A Study in French Military Imperialism (Cambridge, 1969). Kanya-Forster was a Hungarian graduate of Toronto.
147. Twaddle wanted to explore oral history. For Robinson's doubts about this, see M. Twaddle, 'Historians and African History', in D. Rimmer and A. Kirk-Greene (eds.), The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century (London, 2000), 151. Twaddle completed his biography of the Uganda warlord Semei Kakungulu, and became a leading historian of Uganda, at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London.
148. A.J. Stockwell, professor of imperial and Commonwealth history, Royal Holloway College, University of London, leading historian of Malaya; he began his career as a civil servant.
149. Andrew Porter, Rhodes Professor of imperial history, King's College, University of London (1993); thesis published as The Origins of the South African War (Manchester, 1980).
150. Donald Denoon, professor of Pacific history, Australian National University, and formerly professor of history, University of Papua New Guinea; thesis published as A Grand Illusion: The Failure of Imperial Policy in the Transvaal Colony 1900-1905 (London, 1973).
151. Goodfellow became head of the history department at Roma, the Lesotho Campus of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, and committed suicide by throwing himself off a cliff overlooking the university in 1966; see C. Saunders, The Making of the South African Past, 150, and 213 n.24.
152. 'The Swaziland Question and a Road to the Sea, 1887-1895', Argief-jaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis (Archives Yearbook for South African History), II, no.2 (Cape Town, 1957), 261-434 (MA thesis), written at Sidney Sussex College, 1955.
153. E.D. Steele's career was spent at Leeds; thesis published as Irish Land and British Politics: Tenant Right and Nationality, 1865-70 (Cambridge, 1974); in 1991 he published a study of Palmerston's last ten years. D.P.B. Fitzpatrick: associate professor of modern history and fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.
154. Published as Canada and the Transition to Commonwealth, 1917-1926 (Cambridge, 1977); lecturer in Commonwealth and Canadian history, Edinburgh, before his early death.
155. Published as The In-Between Time: Canadian External Policy in the 1930s (Canada, 1975); professor of history, Carleton University.
156. Published as The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1969); despite its undoubted influence, a factual account of some of the educational developments was anticipated by B.T. McCully, English Education and the Origins of Indian Nationalism, in Columbia University Studies in History, 473 (New York, 1940).
157. Published as The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1969); despite its undoubted influence, a factual account of some of the educational developments was anticipated by B.T. McCully, English Education and the Origins of Indian Nationalism, in Columbia University Studies in History, 473 (New York, 1940).
158. T. Raychaudhuri, 'Indian Nationalism as Animal Politics', Historical Journal, XXII (1979), 747-63; OHBE, V, 218, 231-2.
159. T. Raychaudhuri, 'Indian Nationalism as Animal Politics', Historical Journal, XXII (1979), 747-63; OHBE, V, 218, 231-2.
160. J.M. Brown, fellow of Girton College (1968-71), Beit Professor of the history of the British Commonwealth, Oxford and fellow of Balliol College (1990); leading authority on Gandhi.
161. B.R. Tomlinson, research fellow of Magdalene College (1978-80), professor of economic history, University of Strathclyde; his especially important pair of articles on 'India and the British Empire', 1880-1935 and 1935-1947, appeared in the Indian Economic and Social History Review, XII and XIII (1975, 1976).
162. R. Chandavarkar, fellow of Trinity College, and university lecturer in history.
163. D. Washbrook, reader in modern South Asian history and fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
164. Francis Robinson, professor of history of South Asia, Royal Holloway College, London.
165. Professor Jalal established her reputation with The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (Cambridge, 1985).
166. Gallagher, Johnson and Seal (eds.), Locality, Province and Nation; Baker, Johnson and Seal (eds.), Power, Profit and Politics in 20th Century India.
167. Gallagher, Johnson and Seal (eds.), Locality, Province and Nation; Baker, Johnson and Seal (eds.), Power, Profit and Politics in 20th Century India.
168. Keith Jeffery, professor of history, University of Ulster at Jordanstown; thesis published as The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-1922 (Manchester, 1984).
169. S. Bayly, Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900 (Cambridge, 1989), xii.
170. Personal information from JML, 17 March 2000.
171. N. Mansergh, The Unresolved Question: The Anglo-Irish Settlement and its Undoing, 1912-72 (London, 1991), 3.
172. Memoirs of a Malayan Official, 163-4.
173. In 1957 Davidson wrote: 'The qualities are not very different that make for real success in scholarship and in the government of colonies', and he implied that Sir Arthur Gordon, governor of Fiji, New Zealand and Ceylon, should have been able to fulfil his ambition of becoming regius professor of modern history at Cambridge. 'Scholarship and the Government of Colonies', Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, V (1953), 420.
174. OHBE, V, 71.
175. Quoted by D.K. Fieldhouse in his inaugural address to the Cambridge Commonwealth Seminar, 1982, though not printed in the formal inaugural lecture, 'Can Humpty-Dumpty Be Put Together Again? Imperial History in the 1980s', JICH, XII (1984), 9-23.