Charles Firth (historian) - Wikipedia Charles Firth (historian) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Charles Harding Firth) Jump to navigation Jump to search Sir Charles Harding Firth FBA Born (1857-03-16)16 March 1857 Broom Spring House, Wilkinson Street, Ecclesall, Sheffield, England Died 19 February 1936(1936-02-19) (aged 78) Acland Hospital, Oxford, England Resting place Wolvercote, Oxford Nationality British Education Clifton College Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford Occupation Historian Known for Works on the English Civil War and the Commonwealth Title Regius Professor of Modern History Term 1904–1925 Predecessor Frederick York Powell Successor Henry William Carless Davis Sir Charles Harding Firth FBA (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906.[1] Contents 1 Career 2 Teaching vs scholarship 3 Major works 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Career[edit] Born in Sheffield, Firth was educated at Clifton College[2] and at Balliol College, Oxford. At university he took the Stanhope prize for an essay on Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley in 1877 and was a member of the exclusive Stubbs Society for high-achieving historians. He became lecturer at Pembroke College in 1887, and fellow of All Souls College in 1901. He was Ford's lecturer in English history in 1900, was elected FBA in 1903[3] and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in succession to Frederick York Powell in 1904. Firth's historical work was almost entirely confined to English history during the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by S. R. Gardiner, who wrote about the same period, his books were highly regarded. Teaching vs scholarship[edit] Firth was a great friend and ally of T. F. Tout, who was professionalising the History undergraduate programme at Manchester University, especially by introducing a key element of individual study of original sources and production of a thesis. Firth's attempts to do likewise at Oxford brought him into bitter conflict with the college fellows, who had little research expertise of their own and saw no reason why their undergraduates should be made to acquire such arcane, even artisan, skills, given their likely careers. They saw Firth as a power-seeker for the university professoriate as against the role of the colleges as proven finishing-schools for the country and empire's future establishment. Firth failed but the twentieth century saw universities go his and Tout's way.[4] He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1892.[5] He served as president of the Royal Historical Society from 1913 to 1917.[6] His letters to Tout are in the latter's collection in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University. Major works[edit] Life of the Duke of Newcastle (1886) Scotland and the Commonwealth (1895) Scotland and the Protectorate (1899) Narrative of General Venables (1900) Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England (1900) Cromwell's Army: A History of the English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate (1902) (publication of Firth's Ford Lectures given at Oxford, 1900–1901) The standard edition of Ludlow's Memoirs (1894). He also edited the Clarke Papers (1891–1901), and Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson (1885), and wrote an introduction to the Stuart Tracts, 1603–1693 (1903), besides contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography. In 1909 he published The Last Years of the Protectorate. Godfrey Davies, who had been Firth's student and then his research assistant at Oxford between 1910 and 1925, edited and published Firth's posthumously published works. See also[edit] Historiography of the United Kingdom Oliver Cromwell Duke of Newcastle Edmund Ludlow Colonel John Hutchinson Robert Venables Sir William Clarke References[edit] ^ Herbert Butterfield, "The History of the Historical Association" History Today (Jan 1956) 6#1 pp 63–67. ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p28: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 ^ "FIRTH, Charles Harding". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 598. ^ Soffer, Reba (1987). "Nation, duty, character and confidence: history at Oxford, 1850–1914". Historical Journal. 30 (1): 77–104. ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory ^ "List of Presidents". The Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2010. Further reading[edit] Ivan Roots, ‘Firth, Sir Charles Harding (1857–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) accessed 10 Nov 2014 Attribution  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Firth, Charles Harding". Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 425. External links[edit] Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Firth, Charles Harding. Works written by or about Charles Harding Firth at Wikisource Works by Charles Firth at Project Gutenberg Academic offices Preceded by William Cunningham President of the Royal Historical Society 1913–1917 Succeeded by Charles Oman v t e Presidents of the Royal Historical Society 1871–1872 George Grote 1873–1878 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1878–1891 Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare 1891–1899 Sir M. E. Grant Duff 1899–1901 Sir Adolphus Ward 1901–1905 Sir George Prothero 1905–1909 William Hunt 1909–1913 William Cunningham 1913–1917 Sir Charles Firth 1917–1921 Sir Charles Oman 1921–1925 Sir John Fortescue 1925–1929 Frederick Tout 1929–1933 Sir Richard Lodge 1933–1937 Sir F. M. Powicke 1937–1945 Sir Frank Stenton 1946–1949 Robert William Seton-Watson 1949–1953 Theodore Plucknett 1953–1957 Hale Bellot 1957–1961 David Knowles 1961–1965 Sir Goronwy Edwards 1965–1969 Robin Humphreys 1969–1973 Sir R. W. Southern 1973–1977 Sir Geoffrey Elton 1977–1981 Sir John Habakkuk 1981–1985 Sir J. C. Holt 1985–1989 Gerald Aylmer 1989–1993 Michael Thompson 1993–1997 Sir Rees Davies 1997–2001 Sir P. J. Marshall 2001–2005 Dame Janet Nelson 2005–2008 Martin Daunton 2009–2012 Colin Jones 2012–2016 Peter Mandler 2016–present Margot Finn v t e Fellows of the British Academy elected in 1903 Fellows Bernard Bosanquet Edward Granville Browne Arthur Cohen Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Sir Charles Firth Alexander Campbell Fraser Sir Edward Fry Frederick James Furnivall Percy Gardner Henry Jackson M. R. James Sir Frederick Kenyon W. P. Ker The Lord Lindley Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall William Morfill Alexander Stuart Murray Joseph Shield Nicholson Sir George Prothero Armitage Robinson George Stout Authority control BNF: cb123671454 (data) CANTIC: a12319910 GND: 116532831 ISNI: 0000 0001 0881 9166 LCCN: n50005303 NDL: 00744531 NKC: kup20030000117453 NLA: 36516764 NTA: 07207227X PLWABN: 9810569365105606 SNAC: w6gb2pmq SUDOC: 03269007X Trove: 1267415 VcBA: 495/160477 VIAF: 27144448 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50005303 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Firth_(historian)&oldid=996219151" Categories: 1857 births 1936 deaths British historians People educated at Clifton College Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Presidents of the Royal Historical Society People from Ecclesall Knights Bachelor Regius Professors of History (University of Oxford) English legal writers Fellows of the British Academy Members of the American Antiquarian Society Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from May 2012 Use British English from May 2012 Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Articles with Project Gutenberg links Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikisource Languages Deutsch Español Русский Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 25 December 2020, at 06:26 (UTC). 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