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Herbert Butterfield (1951-1952)
Jan 31, 1952
“Liberty in the Modern World” Herbert Butterfield was elected Chair in Modern History at Cambridge University in 1944 after 20 years as a fellow at Peterhouse College.. He taught modern history, especially the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and authored a number of [...]
John MacMurray (1948-1949)
Jan 30, 1949
“The Conditions of Freedom” John MacMurray was born at Maxwell, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, in 1891. During the First World War, he enlisted as a private and in 1916 was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he returned to Oxford to study history and philosophy. [...]