Wiles Lectures 1954-88
1988 R. R. Davies, (University of Aberystwyth)
‘Domination and conquest: the experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1990)
1987 J. F. Ade Ajayi, (University of Abadan)
‘The search for development in Africa: an exploration of the development process within the African historical experience’
1986 Maurice Larkin, (University of Edinburgh)
‘Religion and politics in the twentieth century: the French experience’.
Published as(Cambridge, 1986)
1985 E. J. Hobsbawm, (University of London)
‘Nations and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’.
Published as(Cambridge, 1990; 2nd ed., 1992)
1984 Jonathan Spence, (Yale University)
‘Politics and culture in Chinese society'.
1982 John Cannon, (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
‘The peerage in eighteenth-century England'.
Published as (Cambridge, 1984)
1981 D. C. Watt, (University of London)
‘America in Britain’s place 1900–1975’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1984)
1980 Sir Moses Finley, (University of Cambridge)
‘Politics in the ancient world’.
Published as: (Cambridge, 1983)
1979 Brian Tierney, (Cornell University)
‘Ecclesiology and constitutional thought, 1150–1650: from Gratian to Grotius’.
Published as Religion, law, and the growth of constitutional thought 1150–1650 (Cambridge, 1982)
1978 Terence Ranger, (University of Manchester)
‘Witchcraft belief in the history of three continents: an Africanist Perspective’
1977 Michael Roberts, (formerly of the Queen’s University, Belfast)
‘The Swedish imperial experience, 1560–1718’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1979)
1976 W. B. Gallie, (University of Cambridge)
‘Philosophers of war and peace’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1978)
1975 H. R. Trevor-Roper, (University of Oxford)
‘The ecumenical movement and the English church, 1560–1640’
1974 J. A. Gallagher, (University of Cambridge)
‘European powers and colonial subjects: imperialism and nationalism since the Boston Tea Party’
1973 F. J. Fisher, (University of London)
‘Economic change in the seventeenth century’
1972 G. R. Elton, (University of Cambridge)
‘Reform and renewal in early Tudor England’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1973)
1971 E. Estyn Evans, (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast)
‘Habitat, heritage and history: the personality of Ireland’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1973; revised ed., Belfast, 1981)
1970 Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, (President, General Medical Council)
‘Bloodletting: its influence on the evolution of medicine’
1969 J. H. Elliott, (University of London)
‘The old world and the new, 1492–1650’.
Published as The old world and the new, 1492–1650 (Cambridge, 1970)
1968 Sir Steven Runciman,
‘The last Byzantine Renaissance: intellectual life under the Palaeologan emperors’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1970)
1967 J. Steven Watson, (University of St Andrews)
‘The rise of party politics in England and America’
1966 I. Bernard Cohen, (Harvard University)
‘Isaac Newton: the creative scientific mind at work’
Published as With illustrations of the transformation of scientific ideas (Cambridge, 1980)
1965 Sir Maurice Bowra, (University of Oxford)
‘Poetry and politics, 1900–1960’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1966)
1964 G.S. Graham, (University of London)
‘An epoch of Maritime Empire: the nineteenth century’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1965)
1963 E.R. Dodds, (University of Oxford)
‘Pagan and Christian in an age of anxiety: some aspects of religious experience, A.D. 161–312’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1965)
1962 Alfred Cobban, (University of London)
‘The French Revolution’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1964)
1961 Denys Hay, (University of Edinburgh)
‘The Italian renaissance in its historical background’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1961: rev. ed., Cambridge, 1977)
1960 Sir Keith Hancock, (Australian National University, Canberra)
‘A View of this Century’.
Published as (Cambridge. 1961)
1959 Norman Sykes, (Dean of Winchester)
‘Ecclesiastical history’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1960)
1958 T. F. T. Plucknett, (University of London)
‘Edward I and Criminal Law’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1960)
1956 Sir George N. Clark, (University of Oxford)
‘War and society in the seventeenth century’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1958)
1955 J.U. Neff, (University of Chicago)
‘Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1958).
1954 Herbert Butterfield, (University of Cambridge)
‘The history of historical enquiry’.
Published as (Cambridge, 1955)