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A Hundred Years of the Teaching of History at Cambridge, 1873–1973*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

G. Kitson Clark
G. Kitson Clark
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Trinity College, Cambridge
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Before I start I would like to express my gratitude to the Faculty Board of History who have entrusted me with the very interesting task of delivering this lecture and to Mrs Lindsay for handing me a copy of her article on the ‘Origin and Early Development of the Cambridge Historical Tripos’, which appeared in volume IX of the Cambridge Historical Journal. This article surely must remain the authoritative account of the early development of the Tripos. I owe much to it, as also to an anonymous set of notes on the changes in the Tripos up to 1932, which was discovered in the offices of the History Faculty. This I suspect to have been compiled by Ronald Balfour, a Fellow of King's and close friend of mine, who was killed in the last war. I need not say that neither Mrs Lindsay, nor the author of these notes is responsible for what follows.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 1973 , pp. 535 - 553
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

References

1 See Mrs Lindsay's article passim. The best account of Seeley's views is by Tanner, J. R. in the English Historical Review, vol. ix (1895)Google Scholar, but see also Seeley's inaugural lecture on ‘The Teaching of Politics’ in his Lectures and Essays (1870)Google Scholar, his Introduction to Political Science (1896)Google Scholar and also the quotation cited by Oscar Browning in the Cambridge Review 1884–6, pp. 178–80.Google Scholar For the opinions of Sir Adolphus Ward the best source is Mrs Lindsay's article which cites an important pamphlet by Ward not readily available elsewhere. Ward's article on ‘The Study of History at Cambridge’, published in 1872, is however re-published in vol. v of The Collected Papers of Sir Adolphus Ward (Cambridge, 1921), pp. 248–55.Google Scholar

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