The Lees Knowles Lectureship was established at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1912 and first started in 1915. Lectures are given by distinguished experts in military and naval history and selection for this lectureship is considered one of the highest honours available to specialists in military history and affairs.David Parrott. History Faculty Alumni Newsletter No. 3 (May 2005), University of Oxford, Faculty of History. Retrieved 13 July 2008 The lectureship was established by a bequest by Trinity alumnus and military historian Sir Lees Knowles.
+List of Lecturers and LecturesHome > About Trinity > Public Lectures > Lees Knowles Lectures > Past Lees Knowles Lecturers, Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 13 July 2008YearLecturersLectures1915Sir Julian CorbettThe Great War after Trafalgar 1922 Col. Maxwell Earle The principal strategical problems affecting the British Empire 1923 Col. Maxwell Earle The principles of war 1924 Col. M.A. Wingfield The eight principles of war as exemplified in the Palestine campaign, 1915–1918 1924 Lt.-Col. F. Nosworthy Russia before, during and after the Great War 1925 Major-Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice Statesmen and soldiers in the American civil war 1927 Major-Gen. Sir Wilkinson Bird Some early crises of the war, and the events leading up to them: Western Front 1914 1928 Major Gen. Sir George Aston Problems of empire defence 1929 A.R. Hinks Frontiers and boundary delimitations 1930 W.W. Tarn Hellenistic military developments 1931 Adm. Sir Herbert Richmond Capture at sea in war 1932 Capt. Basil Liddell Hart The movement of military thought from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and its influence on European history 1933 John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) Oliver Cromwell as a soldier 1934 Air Com. L E O Charlton Military aeronautics applied to modern warfare 1936 C.R.M.F. Cruttwell The role of British strategy in the Great War 1937 Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside British military history from 1899 to the present 1939 Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell Generalship 1940 Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice Public opinion in war 1941 Capt. Cyril Falls The nature of modern warfare 1942 Maj. Gen. Sir George Lindsay War on the civil and military fronts 1943 Admiral of the Fleet. The Lord Keyes Amphibious Warfare and Combined Operations 1946 Col. A.H. Burne Military strategy as exemplified in World War II 1947 Air-Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder Air power in modern warfare 1948 Adml. Sir William James The influence of sea power upon the history of the British people 1949 Sir Ronald Weeks Organisation and equipment for war 1950 Sir Henry Tizard The influence of war on science 1951 Gen. Sir William Platt The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940–1 1951 Capt. G.H. Roberts, RN, The battles of the Atlantic 1952 Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill Some human factors in war 1953 Sir Fitzroy Maclean Irregular warfare 1954 Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks Are we training for the last war? 1956 Prof. P.M.S. Blackett Atomic weapons, 1945–1955 1957 John Ehrman Cabinet government and war, 1890–1940 1958 Field Marshal John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton Mediterranean strategy in the 2nd World War 1958 Sir Leslie Rowan Arms and economics: the changing challenge 1960 Capt. Stephen Roskill Maritime strategy in the twentieth century 1961 Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim The military mind and the spirit of an army 1962 Lt. Gen. Sir John Hackett The profession of arms 1963 Dr. Noble Frankland The strategic air offensive 1965 Sir Solly Zuckerman Science and military affairs 1966 Prof Michael Howard Conduct of British strategy in the 2nd World War 1968 Prof. R.V. Jones Command 1969 Alastair Buchan The changing functions of military force in international politics 1970 Prof. Geoffrey Best Conscience and the conduct of war, from the French Revolution through the Franco-Prussian war 1971 Prof. F. Harry Hinsley War and the development of the international system 1972 Prof. John Erickson Soviet soldiers and Soviet society 1973 Dr. Piers Mackesy Problems of an amphibious power 1795–1808 1974 Donald Cameron Watt European armed forces and the approach of the 2nd World War 1933–39 1974 Prof. Herman Bondi Science and defence 1975 Dr. R.L. Clutterbuck Guerilla warfare and political violence 1977 Prof. Christopher Thorne Anglo-American relations and war against Japan 1941–45 1979 Field-Marshal Lord Carver Apostles of mobility 1981 Prof. Laurence W. Martin Evolution of nuclear strategic doctrine since 1945 1983 Alistair Horne The French army and politics 1870–1970 1985 Dr. Geoffrey Parker European warfare 1520–1660 1986 John Keegan Some fallacies of military history 1989 Dr. Alan Bowman Vindolanda and the Roman Army: New documents from the northern frontier 1990 Maurice Keen English military experience, c.1340 – c.1450 1992 Prof. William Hardy McNeill Dance, drill and bonding in human affairs 1995 Prof. Hew Strachan The politics of the British Army 1815–1914 1996 Field-Marshal Sir Peter Inge Military force in a changing world 1998 Prof. Keith Jeffery ‘For the freedom of small nations’: Ireland and the Great War 2000 Prof. Brian Bond Britain and the First World War: The challenge to historians 2002 Antony Beevor The experience of war 2004 Dr. David Parrott War, Armies, and Politics in Early Modern Europe: The Military Devolution, 1560–1660 2006 Ben Shephard What Makes a Soldier? And What Does Not? 2008 Peter Paret 1806: The Cognitive Challenge of War 2010 Andrew RobertsProf. Nicholas RodgerProf. Richard OverySir Max Hastings The creation of Anglo-American grand strategy 1941–45The British Navy in the Second World WarAir Power in the Second World War: A War Winner?The British Army in the Second World War 2012 Prof. Amir Weiner Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework 2013 2014 Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles Folly in foreign policy: On the British misadventure in Afghanistan 2015 2016 Dr. James Howard-Johnston The Byzantine Art of War 2018 Dr. Nicholas Rodger The Culture of Naval War, ca 1850 – 1950 2020 Gen. David Petreaus 2022 Prof. Jay Winter The Civilianization of War
See also Birkbeck Lecture in Ecclesiastical History Tarner Lectures
References
Further reading Geoffrey Parker (1998). The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500–1800, Cambridge University Press, p. xiii. "A short biography on Sir Lees-Knowles"