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Presidential Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Extract

On previous occasions I have chosen as the subject of my address at the annual meeting of this Society a historical theme suggested by my studies. Three historical addresses, each of which involved careful preparation, are, I venture to think, as many as a President of the Society need feel it his duty to deliver. Yet I think that I should have inflicted a fourth upon the Society if some special considerations had not combined to divert me from what is certainly the safer, and is perhaps the more profitable course. Moreover, it so happens that the period of my presidency has been a time of significant development in the organisation of historical study in this country. The history of this Society has been affected by the general movement. We have tried deliberately to adjust ourselves to it, and to take a leading part in it. I decided, therefore, to make my last appearance in the chair an occasion for a review of current developments and for some reflections upon them.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1937

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References

page 5 note 1 Bulletin: Supplement no. 7, November 1936.

page 6 note 1 See Transactions, Fourth Series, xvi, 1933, pp. 4553.Google Scholar