James Ford Special Lectures

MT 1970: Dr F.A. Yates, `James I and the Palatinate: a forgotten chapter in the history of ideas'.
MT 1971: C.E. Stevens: `The five provinces of Roman Britain – a study in medieval antiquarianism and modern scepticism'.
TT 1972: R. Conquest: `Stalinist Mythology and the British Intellectuals'.
MT 1972: Professor J. Hurstfield: `Robert Cecil and the Government of the Tudor State'.
HT 1973: Professor M. Roberts: `Swedish and English Parliamentarianism in the eighteenth century'.
HT 1974: Professor A.G. Dickens: `The English Reformation: Grass Roots and European Perspectives'.
TT 1974: Professor F. Fisher (cancelled).
MT 1974: Sir Peter Gretton: `British Foreign Policy and the Spanish Civil War of 1936‑39'.
HT 1975: Professor S. Piggott: `Ruins in a landscape: aspects of British antiquarianism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'.
MT 1975: Professor J.S. Roskell: `The Anglo-French War: its resumption by Henry V'.
HT 1976: Professor G. Donaldson: `Britain's Northern Isles: problems of sovereignty in Orkney and Shetland'.
MT 1976: J.P.W. Ehrman: `Pitt and the Question of Fox 1789–92'.
TT 1977: Professor J. McConica `Tudor Oxford and the European Renaissance'.
HT 1978: Professor J. Clive: `Let diaries, therefore, be brought in use'.
TT 1978: Professor Edward Miller: `Burgesses and guildsmen in twelfth-century English towns'.
TT 1979: Professor J. Hale: `Defence of the Realm: early Tudor responses to the threat of invasion'.
TT 1979: Professor Sir Idris Foster `Early British History: some concepts and interpretations'.
TT 1980: Professor V. Pearl: `Social Policy in Early Modern London'.
TT 1980: Professor H. Mayer: `Henry II of England and the Holy Land'.
MT 1980: Dr P. Meyvaert: `The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of the Ruthwell Cross: a monument as History'.
TT 1981: Professor G.S.Holmes: `The Rise of the Medieval Profession in England, 1660–1750'.
MT 1981: Professor E.J. Hobsbawm: `The Making of the English Working Class: 1870‑1914'
TT 1982: Professor R. Ashton: `Popular Entertainment and Social Control in later Elizabethan and early Stuart London'.
MT 1982: Dr P. Addison: `Churchill and the Consequences of the First World War'.
TT 1983: Professor L. Stone: `An Open Elite? England 1540–1880'.
TT 1983: Professor W.T. MacCaffrey: `The decline of the Elizabethan Regime, 1590‑1603'.
MT 1983: Professor A.M. Everitt: `Dynasty and Community since the 17th century: an aspect of Provincial Society'.
TT 1984: Dr J.H. Baker: `English Law and the Renaissance'.
HT 1985: Professor Q. Skinner: `Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Renaissance Political Thought'.
TT 1985: Professor P. Kennedy: `Guns, Butter, and Balanced Budgets in twentieth‑century Britain'.
MT 1985: Professor P.J. Marshall: `Authority and Empire in the later Eighteenth Century'.
TT 1986: Sir Richard Southern: `Medieval Retrospect: a partial view of history in Oxford 1929–86'.
MT 1986: Professor E.A. Wrigley: `Malthus on the Prospects for the Labouring Poor'.
MT 1987: Dr R.S. Porter: `The Talking Cure? The Patient's Story in the History of Insanity'.
TT 1988: Professor R.R. Davies `The Struggle for the Identity of Wales in the Thirteenth Century'.
MT 1988: Professor A.H. Woolrych: `The Cromwellian Protectorate: a military dictatorship?'.
TT 1989: Mr E.P. Thompson: `Property in land: the case of the Mohegan Indians in the Privy Council'.
MT 1989: Dr J.J.N. Palmer: `Domesday Book and the new aristocracy'.
TT 1990: Dr C.M. Andrew: `Britain and the KGB, 1917–1990'.
MT 1990: Professor C.R. Dodwell: `Anglo-Saxon attitudes'.
TT 1991: Professor R. Skidelsky: `Keynes's Middle Way: the Politics of Keynes's Economics'.
MT 1991: Dr J.S. Morrill: `Ecclesiastical Imperialism under the Early Stuarts'.
TT 1992: Professor R.A. Griffiths (Cancelled).
MT 1992: Professor O.R. Anderson: `Modern English family law: another Victorian monument?'
TT 1993: Dr K.E. Wrightson: `The politics of the parish in early modern England'.
MT 1993: Professor R.A. Griffiths: `The royal dead in later medieval England'.
TT 1994: Mr Raphael Samuel: `The Tory Interpretation of History'.

[Note. The decree governing the Ford Lectures was changed in 1994 to broaden the scope of the lectures from English to British History.]

MT 1994: Dr H.M. Spufford: `Poverty Portrayed: Gregory King and Eccleshall, Staffordshire, illustrated by Egbert von Heemskerk and Marcellus Laroon'.
TT 1995: Professor R. Bartlett: `"Bring me gifts! Ask my help!": Saints and their followers in 12th- and 13th-century Britain'.
MT 1995: Dr A.J.B. Hilton: `The politics of nature and the nature of politics in the early nineteenth century'.
TT 1996: Dr M. Aston: `Obliteration and Memory in the English Reformation'.
MT 1996: Dr C. Carpenter: ``The Lords and Noble Men which be in Authority': the Nobility of Later Medieval England'.
TT 1997: Professor J. Cannon: ``We have the power': the English Ascendancy 1707‑1801'.
MT 1997: Professor A.B. Worden: `John Milton and Oliver Cromwell'.
MT 1998: Professor L. Colley: `Going Native, Telling Tales: Captives and Collaborations in an Age of Empire'.
MT 1998: Dr B. Yorke: `The Secular Context of Anglo-Saxon Nunneries'.
MT 1999: Professor Hutton: `New perspectives of the Great Witch Hunt'.
MT 2002: Professor I Christie: ‘Patriotism and Business: The issue of a national cinema in Britain, 1915–25’.
MT 2005: Professor Lord Morgan: ‘Lloyd George, the French and the Germans’

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