Temperley, Professor Harold William Vazeille (1879–1939)
© The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Though seen as a classic Whig historian, Temperley, like Gooch, stressed the importance of the original documentary sources, and was the pre-eminent diplomatic historian of the interwar years.
- Forenames:
- Harold William Vazeille
- Surname:
- Temperley
- Title:
- Professor
- Dates:
- 1879–1939
- Institutions:
- Cambridge Historical Journal
International Congress of Historians
University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) - Significant posts:
- Founder, Cambridge Historical Journal
President, International Congress of Historians
Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
- Influences:
- Ward, Adolphus William
- Contemporaries:
- Gooch, George Peabody
- Influenced:
- Butterfield, Herbert
- Themes:
- Diplomatic history
International history
- Biographies:
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Obituaries:
- Times
Bibliography
Personal papers
Significant publications
- Harold Temperley and A. J. Grant, Europe in the Nineteenth Century, 1789–1914 (1927)
- British Documents on the Origins of the War, ed. George Peabody Gooch and Harold Temperley (11 vols., London, 1927–38)
Other reading
- J. D. Hargreaves, 'Some notes on Gooch and Temperley', History, new ser., 39 (1954), 68–75
