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Presidential Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2009

G. W. Prothero
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Extract

In my third year of office I may, I hope, congratulate the Society on the satisfactory condition disclosed by the report which is in your hands.

The volume of ‘Transactions’ for the year 1902–3 contains some valuable papers based on original research and providing a varied entertainment for the historical reader. They show, as usual, a dominant interest in British history, a fact of which I do not complain; but I should be glad if the sphere of our activity were more frequently extended, so as to take in ancient and foreign history as well.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 18 , December 1904 , pp. 1 - 31
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1903

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References

page 15 note 1 Since the date at which this Address was delivered and put into type, the area of study included in the Honours School of Modern History at Oxford has been extended by the incorporation of the period 1815–1878.

page 16 note 1 I take the following items from Ascherson's DeutscAer Universitats-Kalender, 1903–4. I have noted professorial lectures only, omitting those of Privatdozenten.

page 16 note 2 Nevertheless, in Vienna, Pribram lectures on ‘Weltgeschichte,’ 1789–1830; and Fournier on European History since 1848. Last year Fournier lectured on the Political Ideas of the Nineteenth Century, and on the Reaction 1815–1848.

page 18 note 1 The following items are taken from a handbook, entitled Graduate Courses, for the year 1897–8, the publication of which has lately ceased. Only lectures on foreign history are included. Courses on American history in the nineteenth century are far more numerous; but as the history of the United States only begins in 1776, a comparison based on these might be regarded as unfair.

Besides these courses, classed under the head of History, many others, classed under Economics, Sociology, and Political Science, deal with nineteenth-century history.