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The Watson Chair Lectures

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PAST WATSON CHAIR LECTURES

Year

Lecturer

Topic

Location

2007 Duncan Robinson The artist as critic: Whistler, Sargent and Henry James Sulgrave Manor
2006 Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Rights and Culture in the Market of Ideas: Thoughts on Freedom of Expression

Sulgrave Manor

2005

The Hon Peter Jay

USE never, USA ever

Sulgrave Manor

1995

Dr Daniel J Boorstin

George Washington and American Character

1: American Embassy, London

1987

Professor Emer Esmond Wright, London

Why Celebrate the American Constitution

1: Leicester

1985

Malcolm Bradbury FRSL

The Politics of the Liberal Imagination: Writers and Society in the American 1950s

1: Leicester

1984

Professor Samuel P Hays, Oxford

The New Deal: Then and Now

1: Leicester

1976

Charles R Ritcheson

Edmund Burke and the American Revolution

1: Leicester

1973

Marcus Cunliffe

The Right to Property: A Theme in American History

1: Leicester

1972

Richard Poirier

The Aesthetics of Contemporary American Radicalism

1: Leicester

1971

Robin W Winks

The Myth of the American Frontier

1: Leicester

1970

Oscar Handlin

The American University as an Instrument of Republican Culture

1: Leicester

1969

Sir Denis Brogan

The Destiny of the American Party System

1: Leicester

1968

David Daiches

The Teaching of Literature in American Universities

1: Leicester

1967

Esmond Wright

The American Revolution

1: Leicester

1966

Cleanth Brooks

American Literature: Mirror, Lens, or Prism?

1: Leicester

1965

Allan Nevins

The Place of Franklin D Roosevelt in History

1: Leicester

1958

Mr WG Constable, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Art Collecting in America

4: London, Leeds

1957

Professor AJ Ayer, UCL

Pragmatism

UCL

1954

Dr RM Hutchins, Ford Foundation & past President Chicago

The Idea of an American University

Oxford, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester, Univ Coll of North Staffs

1953

Mr Roy Harrod, Economics Journal

The Dollar Problem

Goldsmith’s Hall

1952

Walter Lippmann, journalist

Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in the United States

6: Oxford, Cambridge, Chatham House

1939

Sir Frederick Whyte, KCSI, Dir American Div of the Min of Information

Foreign Relations of the United States

Rhodes House, Oxford

1938

Mr Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic Architecture

RIBA

1937

Professor H Hale Bellot

Recent Advances in the Interpretation of American History

Birmingham

1936

Col Theodore Roosevelt, late Gov of Philippines

America as a Colonial Power

London

1935

Mr Arthur Bryant

The American Ideal: Six Biographical Studies

UCL

1934

Professor Allan Nevins, Columbia

The New Deal.  Recent Politico-Economic Changes in the United States

UCL

1933

Sir John Squire, The London Mercury

American Poetry and its Relation with English Poetry

Cambridge

1931-2

Hon James Beck, past Solicitor General of USA

The United States Constitution as an Experiment in Democracy

King’s College, London

1930

Professor GS Gordon, Pres Magdalen College, Oxford

The Literary Relations, Past and Present, of England and the United States

UCL

1929

Dr John H Finley, New York Times

The Predestinating of America

Edinburgh

1928

Professor Reginald Coupland, Oxford

The After Effects of the American Revolution on British Policy

UCL

1927

Professor CH van Tyne, Michigan

The Struggle for the Truth about the American Revolution

6: Oxford, Cambridge, London, Aberystwyth, Birmingham, Glasgow

1926

Professor Robert McElroy, Oxford

Some British-American Crises

6: Cambridge, London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester

1925

President Sir Robert Falconer, Toronto

The United States as a Neighbour

6: Oxford, Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester

1924

Professor AF Pollard, UCL

Factors in American History

6: Cambridge, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham

1923

President Nicholas Butler, Columbia

Building the American Nation

8: Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, St Andrews

1922

Ex-President Hadley, Yale

Economic Problems of Democracy

6: Oxford, Cambridge, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield

1921

Viscount Bryce

 

1: Mansion House