King’s Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre

KISS303 ARCHIVAL RESEARCH IN MILITARY HISTORY Professor Andrew Lambert [email protected] War Studies 2015/16 Spring B4, North Wing, Strand campus (lecture) Short Course Liddell Hart Archive centre (archive meeting) 2 2 hours (2-4pm) 3 February 2016 B4, North Wing, Strand campus From main Strand reception, go straight ahead then exit through the door on your left. Cross the courtyard into the building in front of you (North Wing), carry on straight along the corridor, B4 is on your left.

17 February 2016 Liddell Hart Archive centre Archives Reading Room is room S3.02 Strand Building. Please confirm location with course convenor. This course would exploit the rich holdings of material relating to the career of the historian/Strategist Sir Julian Corbett (1854- 1922) in the Liddell Hart Archive Centre. There will be two sessions: the first, a lecture/discussion will focus on the opportunities and challenges in archival research, especially from the point of view of the naval/military historian – notably methodologies, and key debates on history and historiography.

The second session would be a hands-on workshop using the archival material, notably Corbett’s Naval War College lectures, correspondence with other individuals to develop students understanding of research processes and methods. Students would have an opportunity to examine individual items from the archives and discuss them with the group.

SESSION 1 Archival Research in the history of war. Methods, debates, resources and ideas. SESSION 2 Working with Archives. A hands-on seminar using original materials. Heuser, D.B.G. The Evolution of Strategy Cambridge 2010 Gat, A. Military Thought in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford 1992 Bentley, M. Modernising England’s Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism. Cambridge 2006 Lambert, A.D. ‘History as Process and Record: The Royal Navy and Officer Education.’ in Kennedy, G C & Neilsen, K. Military Education: Past, Present and Future. Westport, Connecticut 2002 Lambert, A.D. ‘The Development of Education in the Royal Navy: 1854-1914’ in Till, G. ed. The Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in memory of Bryan Ranft. Abingdon 2006 pp.34-59. Lambert, A.D. “Laughton’s Legacy: naval history at King’s College, London. “ in Historical Research: Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research May 2004 pp. 274-288. Lambert, A.D. ‘The Foundations of Naval History': Sir John Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical Profession. London 1997 Lambert, A.D. ed. Letters and Papers of Sir John Knox Laughton, 1830- 1915. London Navy Records Society, 2002. Schurman, D.M. ‘Civilian Historian: Sir Julian Corbett’ in The Education of a Navy: The Development of British Naval Strategic Thought 1867-1914. London 1965 Schurman, D. M. Julian S. Corbett, 1854-1922: Historian of British Maritime Policy from Drake to Jellicoe. London 1981

CORBETT: A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY Drake and the Tudor Navy. London 1898 The Successors of Drake. London 1900 England in the Mediterranean London 1904 England in the Seven Year’s war: A Study in Combined Strategy London 1907 The Campaign of Trafalgar London 1910. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy. London 1911 Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War1904-1905. Ed. Hattendorf, J. & Schurman, D.M. eds. Annapolis 1994. Official History of Naval Operations Vols,. I, II, & III 1920-23.

ESSAYS ‘The Paradox of Empire’ Monthly Review January 1901 ‘Education in the Navy’ 3 articles Monthly Review 1902. ‘Lord Selborne’s Critics’ Monthly Review 1903 Naval Manoeuvres of 1903 Monthly Review December 1903. The Naval War Course The Times 5 & 9.6.1906 ‘Recent Attacks on the Admiralty.’ The Nineteenth Century and After. February 1907 ‘The Strategical Value of Speed’ Journal of the Royal United Service Institution July 1907. Paper delivered 6.3.1907. ’The Capture of Private Property at Sea.’ The Nineteenth Century June 1907: reprinted in Mahan, A. T. ed. Some Neglected Aspects of War. Boston 1907 ‘Trafalgar’ The Times 22.10.1909. ‘Staff Histories’ in Corbett, J. S. & Edwards, H.J. eds. Naval and Military Essays: Being Papers Read at the Naval and Military Section of the International Congress of Historical Studies 1913. Cambridge 1914. ‘The Spectre or Navalism’ Pamphlet New York 1915 ‘The Teaching of Naval and Military History’ History April 1916 ‘The Revival of Naval History.’ The Laughton Memorial Lecture. The Contemporary Review no. 110 (December 1916) ‘Freedom of the Seas’ pamphlet February 1917 ‘The League of Peace and a Free Sea’ pamphlet 1917. ‘Napoleon and the British Navy after Trafalgar’ Creighton Memorial Lecture 11.10.1921. The Quarterly Review April 1922.

LIDDELL HART ARCHIVE CENTRE HOLDINGS GB99 KCLMA Corbett Manuscript notes by Corbett, for lectures, given at the Royal Naval War College, Portsmouth, Hampshire, between 1903-1918 relating to the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1652-1654, the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714, the Trafalgar campaign, Napoleonic Wars, 1805, the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, and combined operations. Six letters to Corbett, dated 1905, on a lecture given at the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, from Col Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Bt, and R Adm Edmund John Warre Slade. Four letters to Corbett, dated 1906-1907, on a lecture to be given at Aldershot, 1907, from Maj Gen Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton and Adm Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont. Four letters to Corbett, dated 1919-1920, on the writing of the Official History of the Great War: Naval operations (Longmans, London, 1920-1931), from Sir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, AF John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (former First Sea Lord) and two from AF David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, First Sea Lord. See also Ian Hamilton. Preparatory reading from the reading list and the list of Corbett’s lectures would be recommended. None

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