The Lees Knowles Lectureship was established at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1912 and first started in 1915. Lectures are given by distinguished experts in military and naval history and selection for this lectureship is considered one of the highest honours available to specialists in military history and affairs.[1] The lectureship was established by a bequest by Trinity alumnus and military historian Sir Lees Knowles.[2]

List of Lecturers and Lectures[3]
YearLecturersLectures
1915Sir Julian CorbettThe Great War after Trafalgar
1922Col. Maxwell EarleThe principal strategical problems affecting the British Empire
1923Col. Maxwell EarleThe principles of war
1924Col. M.A. WingfieldThe eight principles of war as exemplified in the Palestine campaign, 1915–1918
1924Lt.-Col. F. NosworthyRussia before, during and after the Great War
1925Major-Gen. Sir Frederick MauriceStatesmen and soldiers in the American civil war
1927Major-Gen. Sir Wilkinson BirdSome early crises of the war, and the events leading up to them: Western Front 1914
1928Major Gen. Sir George AstonProblems of empire defence
1929A.R. HinksFrontiers and boundary delimitations
1930W.W. TarnHellenistic military developments
1931Adm. Sir Herbert RichmondCapture at sea in war
1932Capt. Basil Liddell HartThe movement of military thought from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and its influence on European history
1933John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir)Oliver Cromwell as a soldier
1934Air Com. L E O CharltonMilitary aeronautics applied to modern warfare
1936C.R.M.F. CruttwellThe role of British strategy in the Great War
1937Gen. Sir Edmund IronsideBritish military history from 1899 to the present
1939Gen. Sir Archibald WavellGeneralship
1940Gen. Sir Frederick MauricePublic opinion in war
1941Capt. Cyril FallsThe nature of modern warfare
1942Maj. Gen. Sir George LindsayWar on the civil and military fronts
1943Admiral of the Fleet. The Lord KeyesAmphibious Warfare and Combined Operations
1946Col. A.H. BurneMilitary strategy as exemplified in World War II
1947Air-Marshal Sir Arthur TedderAir power in modern warfare
1948Adml. Sir William JamesThe influence of sea power upon the history of the British people
1949Sir Ronald WeeksOrganisation and equipment for war
1950Sir Henry TizardThe influence of war on science
1951Gen. Sir William PlattThe campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940–1
1951Capt. G.H. Roberts, RN,The battles of the Atlantic
1952Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic HillSome human factors in war
1953Sir Fitzroy MacleanIrregular warfare
1954Gen. Sir Brian HorrocksAre we training for the last war?
1956Prof. P.M.S. BlackettAtomic weapons, 1945–1955
1957John EhrmanCabinet government and war, 1890–1940
1958Field Marshal John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of PethertonMediterranean strategy in the 2nd World War
1958Sir Leslie RowanArms and economics: the changing challenge
1960Capt. Stephen RoskillMaritime strategy in the twentieth century
1961Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount SlimThe military mind and the spirit of an army
1962Lt. Gen. Sir John HackettThe profession of arms
1963Dr. Noble FranklandThe strategic air offensive
1965Sir Solly ZuckermanScience and military affairs
1966Prof Michael HowardConduct of British strategy in the 2nd World War
1968Prof. R.V. JonesCommand
1969Alastair BuchanThe changing functions of military force in international politics
1970Prof. Geoffrey BestConscience and the conduct of war, from the French Revolution through the Franco-Prussian war
1971Prof. F. Harry HinsleyWar and the development of the international system
1972Prof. John EricksonSoviet soldiers and Soviet society
1973Dr. Piers MackesyProblems of an amphibious power 1795–1808
1974Donald Cameron WattEuropean armed forces and the approach of the 2nd World War 1933–39
1974Prof. Herman BondiScience and defence
1975Dr. R.L. ClutterbuckGuerilla warfare and political violence
1977Prof. Christopher ThorneAnglo-American relations and war against Japan 1941–45
1979Field-Marshal Lord CarverApostles of mobility
1981Prof. Laurence W. MartinEvolution of nuclear strategic doctrine since 1945
1983Alistair HorneThe French army and politics 1870–1970
1985Dr. Geoffrey ParkerEuropean warfare 1520–1660
1986John KeeganSome fallacies of military history
1989Dr. Alan BowmanVindolanda and the Roman Army: New documents from the northern frontier
1990Maurice KeenEnglish military experience, c.1340 – c.1450
1992Prof. William Hardy McNeillDance, drill and bonding in human affairs
1995Prof. Hew StrachanThe politics of the British Army 1815–1914
1996Field-Marshal Sir Peter IngeMilitary force in a changing world
1998Prof. Keith Jeffery‘For the freedom of small nations’: Ireland and the Great War
2000Prof. Brian BondBritain and the First World War: The challenge to historians
2002Antony BeevorThe experience of war
2004Dr. David ParrottWar, Armies, and Politics in Early Modern Europe: The Military Devolution, 1560–1660
2006Ben ShephardWhat Makes a Soldier? And What Does Not?
2008Peter Paret1806: The Cognitive Challenge of War
2010Andrew Roberts
Prof. Nicholas Rodger
Prof. Richard Overy
Sir Max Hastings
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
2012Prof. Amir WeinerTotal War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework
2013
2014Sir Sherard Cowper-ColesFolly in foreign policy: On the British misadventure in Afghanistan
2015
2016Dr. James Howard-JohnstonThe Byzantine Art of War
2018Dr. Nicholas RodgerThe Culture of Naval War, ca 1850 – 1950
2020Gen. David Petreaus
2022Prof. Jay WinterThe Civilianization of War

See also

References

  1. David Parrott. History Faculty Alumni Newsletter No. 3 (May 2005), University of Oxford, Faculty of History. Retrieved 13 July 2008
  2. "Obituary: Sir Lees Knowles. A Life of Public Service". The Times. 8 October 1928. p. 18.
  3. Home > About Trinity > Public Lectures > Lees Knowles Lectures > Past Lees Knowles Lecturers, Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 13 July 2008

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