The Watson Chair Lectures

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SCHEDULE OF WATSON CHAIR LECTURES

Year	Lecturer	Topic
1921	Viscount Bryce	The Study of American History
1922	Ex-President Hadley, Yale	Economic Problems of Democracy
1923	President Nicholas Butler, Columbia	Building the American Nation
1924	Professor AF Pollard, UCL	Factors in American History
1925	President Sir Robert Falconer, Toronto	The United States as a Neighbour
1926	Professor Robert McElroy, Oxford	Some British-American Crises
1927	Professor CH van Tyne, Michigan	The Struggle for the Truth about the American Revolution
1928	Professor Reginald Coupland, Oxford	The After Effects of the American Revolution on British Policy
1929	Dr John H Finley, New York Times	The Predestinating of America
1930	Professor GS Gordon, President Magdalen College, Oxford	The Literary Relations, Past and Present, of England and the United States
1931-2	Hon James Beck, past Solicitor General of USA	The United States Constitution as an Experiment in Democracy
1933	Sir John Squire, The London Mercury	American Poetry and its Relation with English Poetry
1934	Professor Allan Nevins, Columbia	The New Deal. Recent Politico-Economic Changes in the United States
1935	Mr Arthur Bryant	The American Ideal: Six Biographical Studies
1936	Col Theodore Roosevelt, late Governor of the Philippines	America as a Colonial Power
1937	Professor H Hale Bellot	Recent Advances in the Interpretation of American History
1938	Mr Frank Lloyd Wright	Organic Architecture
1939	Sir Frederick Whyte, KCSI, Director, American Division of the Ministry of Information	Foreign Relations of the United States
1952	Walter Lippmann, journalist	Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in the United States
1953	Mr Roy Harrod, Economics Journal	The Dollar Problem
1954	Dr RM Hutchins, Ford Foundation & past President Chicago	The Idea of an American University
1957	Professor AJ Ayer, UCL	Pragmatism
1958	Mr WG Constable, Boston Museum of Fine Arts	Art Collecting in America
1965	Allan Nevins	The Place of Franklin D Roosevelt in History
1966	Cleanth Brooks	American Literature: Mirror, Lens, or Prism?
1967	Esmond Wright	The American Revolution
1968	David Daiches	The Teaching of Literature in American Universities
1969	Sir Denis Brogan	The Destiny of the American Party System
1970	Oscar Handlin	The American University as an Instrument of Republican Culture
1971	Robin W Winks	The Myth of the American Frontier
1972	Richard Poirier	The Aesthetics of Contemporary American Radicalism
1973	Marcus Cunliffe	The Right to Property: A Theme in American History
1976	Charles R Ritcheson	Edmund Burke and the American Revolution
1984	Professor Samuel P Hays, Oxford	The New Deal: Then and Now
1985	Malcolm Bradbury FRSL	The Politics of the Liberal Imagination: Writers & Society in the American 1950s
1987	Professor Emeritus Esmond Wright, London	Why Celebrate the American Constitution
1995	Dr Daniel J Boorstin	George Washington and American Character
2005	The Hon Peter Jay	USE never, USA ever
2006	Professor Stephen Trachtenberg, President of George Washington University	Rights and Culture in the Market of Ideas: Thoughts on Freedom of Expression
2007	Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge	The artist as critic, and the critic as artist: Whistler, Sargent, Henry James
2008	General Sir Michael Rose	Fighting Insurgency Wars – The American War of Independence
2009	David Goodhart, Prospect Magazine	Citizens and Immigrants: Britain and the US since 1945
2010	Rt. Hon. Baroness Hayman, PC, Speaker of the House of Lords	Contrasts between the American Senate and the British House of Lords