Harold Temperley Research Articles

Slavonic and East European Review, 1922–2022

Slavonic and East European Review, 1922–2022 Simon Dixon (bio) This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of this journal, launched in June 1922 as the Slavonic Review, renamed Slavonic (and East European) Review in 1928, and known since 1931, when the brackets were silently dropped, under its current title, commonly abbreviated to SEER. The centenary offers a natural opportunity to reflect on the journal's achievements and vicissitudes and to glance forward to challenges ahead.1 Except for the war years, 1941–44, when the numeration was maintained but SEER was published without British involvement in the United States, it has been edited in London at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). A constituent part of King's College from 1915 until 1932, when it became an independent Senate Institute, SSEES struck some outsiders as one of the more inward-looking institutions in the British higher education system before its merger with University College London (UCL) in 1999.2 However, both the School and its cosmopolitan staff developed in counterpoint with the turbulent history of the region they studied and with changes in academic life in the world beyond. The same is true of the Review. Conceived as 'the joint product of British and American [End Page 1] Slavonic scholars, and of representative Slavs in every field of intellectual effort',3 the journal relied from the outset on the fluctuating international collaborations highlighted in this article. Since the journal's lifespan has so far fallen into two distinct parts, the article's final section focuses on the years after 1950, when SEER became an academic periodical among a growing galaxy of specialist competitors. But I begin in the aftermath of the peace settlements of 1919–20, when Slavonic studies gained unprecedented prominence in Europe and the United States, and when the Review first appeared as a hybrid combining scholarly articles with politically committed contributions inspired by the shared Liberal vision of its two principal founders, R. W. Seton-Watson* (1879–1951) and Sir Bernard Pares* (1867–1949). Scholarship and political activism, 1922–40 In presenting their new journal as a multi-disciplinary miscellany, studded with essays and documents on contemporary affairs, Pares and Seton-Watson ran against a swelling tide of academic professionalization originating in Germany. In their own subject — history — France's Revue historique (1876), the English Historical Review (1886) and the American Historical Review (1895) had all been established in the wake of the Prussian Historische Zeitschrift (1859) as bastions of a 'scientific' method designed to supplant the romantic effusions of 'men of letters'.4 Nevertheless, the transition was neither universal nor smooth.5 And it was especially uneven among historians who sympathized with the 'oppressed' nationalities of the Habsburg Empire and rejoiced in their new-found statehood after 1919. Barely a decade after collaborating with Seton-Watson in British intelligence, the émigré Polish Jew Lewis Namier* (1888–1960) published The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (1929), a work whose very title signalled the author's determination to privilege what he called 'sociological' analysis over teleological narrative.6 By contrast, Seton-Watson and his Liberal friends remained faithful to a heroic vision of national emancipation, granted as a reward for moral courage. Warning against the spurious claims to objectivity of 'colourless' history that 'gave [End Page 2] no clue to the author's party allegiance or ulterior motive', Seton-Watson insisted in his 1928 Creighton Lecture that 'no historian who is worth his salt can altogether avoid taking sides in the tremendous controversies of Authority and Reason, of Tradition and Liberty, of unquestioning faith and sceptical inquiry'.7 Harold Temperley* (1879–1939) might have agreed. Though he launched the austerely professional Cambridge Historical Journal in 1923 and checked his contributors' references at the Public Record Office, Temperley never wholly suppressed the romantic streak that inspired his fascination with the Serbs, the Hungarians and the Slovaks. Having partly overcome his initial mistrust of academic interventions in affairs of state — 'Oh these Professors', he wailed to Seton-Watson in 1909, 'how they fail in politics' — Temperley went on to play a minor part in the peace settlement ten years later.8...

Book review: An Historian in Peace and War: The Diaries of Harold Temperley, written by T.G. Otte (ed.) (2014)

Book review: An Historian in Peace and War: The Diaries of Harold Temperley, written by T.G. Otte (ed.) (2014)

Learning from the past: the relevance of international history

This article is based on an inaugural lecture for the Stevenson Chair in International History, given at the London School of Economics (LSE) in October 2012. It re-examines the origins in Britain in the 1920s of the academic discipline of international history, focusing on the partnership between the LSE and Chatham House. It highlights the differences among the discipline's founders between broader and more tightly defined conceptions of its subject matter and scope, identified respectively with Arnold J. Toynbee on the one hand and with Harold Temperley and Charles Webster on the other. It also underlines the founders' agreement about international history's practical applicability, particularly for analysing and even for helping to prevent the outbreak of major wars. It explores the theme of ‘learning from the past’ by investigating the interconnection between the diplomatic crises of July–August 1914 and October 1962, reappraising John F. Kennedy's use of history to inform statesmanship. The article points to a recurrent pattern in the international conjunctures of 1914, 1939 and 1962 that may be replicating itself again today. It concludes that a knowledge and understanding of international history can indeed yield insights of practical value, though must be drawn on flexibly and with imagination.

Canning, the principle of non-interference and the struggle for influence in Portugal, 1822-5

This article re-examines Anglo-Portuguese relations in the first half of George Canning's second foreign secretaryship. It contends that Canning's determination to maintain British influence in Portugal led him to interfere in its internal affairs much more deeply and constantly than hitherto believed, and that, in doing so, he was motivated by his belief that British predominance in Lisbon was an essential element in the European balance of power. It will be suggested that Harold Temperley's widely accepted portrayal of Canning as a committed isolationist and a firm believer in the principle of non-interference in another state's internal affairs needs serious reconsideration.

:Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter

While most of today's history graduate students would recognize Herbert Butterfield as the author of The Whig Interpretation of History (1931), few would have read it, and likely none could name the title of any other work by the same man. C.T. McIntire sets out to establish that Butterfield's influence extends far beyond his famous warning against “presentmindedness.” In the process, he provides the first full-bodied evaluation of Butterfield and his work based on unrestricted access to his private papers. The author warns at the outset that this is an “intellectual biography,” conspicuously disregarding his subject's personal life except as it affected the trajectory of Butterfield's work. True to his word, Mclntire devotes only two paragraphs to the 1954 suicide of Butterfield's son. Early exposure to Harold Temperley led to Butterfield's first academic publication on the minutiae of Napoleonic diplomacy. This research experience ensured that Butterfield would henceforth champion “technical” or “scientific history” as the benchmark for investigations of the past. Here was a technique he maintained was free of religious, ethnic, and ideological partisanship. The great irony was that, from 1929 until his retirement in 1968, Butterfield never authored another book that fit his description of scientific history. He spent the last fifty years of his life assuring colleagues that he was working on the definitive life of Charles James Fox, a volume that never quite materialized. Butterfield's sense of guilt at this professional lapse is a recurrent theme of McIntire's study.

John D. Fair. <italic>Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm</italic>. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 1992. Pp. 362. $55.00

John D. Fair. Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 1992. Pp. 362. $55.00 Get access Fair John D.. Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 1992. Pp. 362. $55.00. R. J. Q. Adams R. J. Q. Adams Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 98, Issue 4, October 1993, Page 1259, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/98.4.1259 Published: 01 October 1993

Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm.

Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm.

General

Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. By Orlando Patterson The Evolution of International Society. By Adam Watson Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences. By Geoffrey Hawthorn A Cultural History of Gesture: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg The Heart of Europe: Essays on Literature and Ideology. By J. P. Stern Engels and the Formation of Marxism: History, Dialectics and Revolution. By S.H. Rigby Legal History: A European Perspective. By R.C. Van Caenegem Islamic History: A Framework for Enquiry. By R. Stephen Humphreys Geschichte, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Zeitwende. By Richard Koebner The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs, Volume III: Serious Pursuits: Communications and Education Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm. By John D. Fair The Church and Sovereignty c. 590–1918: Essays in Honour of Michael Wilks. Edited by Diana Wood Essential Papers on Hasidism: Origins to Present. Edited by Gershon David Hundert Muslim‐Christian Encounters: Perceptions and Misperceptions. By William Montgomery Watt Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality and the Catholic Church. By Uta Ranke‐Heinemann The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood since the Seventeenth Century . By Hugh Cunningham Precis d'histoire rurale de la Belgique. By Adriaan Verhulst The Batsford Companion to Local History. By Stephen Friar Maps and History in South‐West England. Edited by Katherine Barker and Roger Kain A Social History of the English Countryside. By G.E. Mingay Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe since 1500: Studies in Social Stratification. Edited by M.L. Bush The Victoria County History of Staffordshire, Volume XIV: The City of Lichfield. Edited by M.W. Greenslade Unity and Variety: A History of the Church in Devon and Cornwall. Edited by Nicholas Orme The History of the Haberdashers' Company. By Ian W. Archer

The Russian Ukase and the Monroe Doctrine: A Re-Evaluation

1Ukase of September 4 [O.S.], 1821, Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, Proceedings (Washington, 1904), II, 25; for original text, see P. Tikhmenev, Istoricheskoe Obozranie Obrazovanie Rossiysko Amerikanskoi Kompaniy [Historical Survey of the Formation of the Russian American Company] (St. Petersburg, 1861-1863), I, approx. p. 27. The Ukase was signed by Count D. Guriev, Minister of Finance. The Italian mile is equal to one minute of latitude or 1,620 yards (4,860 feet); it is, therefore, 420 feet shorter than the English mile. It is also the same distance as the ancient Roman mile which Russia had carried over into the modern era. One hundred Italian miles is approximately thirty marine leagues, a limit chosen because of precedents found in both the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the Treaty of Ghent (1814). George Davidson, The Alaska Boundary (San Francisco, 1903), 44-45. 2 Harold Temperley erroneously gives September 28 as the date of this decree, having added twelve days to the New Style date of the 16th; see The Foreign Policy of Canning, 1822-1827 (London, 1925), 104.

Trade and Peace with Old Spain, 1667–1750. A Study of the Influence of Commerce on Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century. By Jean O. McLachlan, with a foreword by the late Professor Harold Temperley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1940. Pp. xvi, 249. $3.50.

Trade and Peace with Old Spain, 1667–1750. A Study of the Influence of Commerce on Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century. By Jean O. McLachlan, with a foreword by the late Professor Harold Temperley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1940. Pp. xvi, 249. $3.50.

<italic>Trade and Peace with Old Spain, 1667–1750: A Study of the Influence of Commerce on Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century</italic>. By Jean O. McLachlan, Formerly Research Fellow of Girton College. With a Foreword by the Late Professor Harold Temperley. (Cambridge: University Press; New York: Macmillan Company. 1940. Pp. xvi, 249. $3.50.)

<italic>Trade and Peace with Old Spain, 1667–1750: A Study of the Influence of Commerce on Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century</italic>. By Jean O. McLachlan, Formerly Research Fellow of Girton College. With a Foreword by the Late Professor Harold Temperley. (Cambridge: University Press; New York: Macmillan Company. 1940. Pp. xvi, 249. $3.50.)

Harold Temperley, 1879–1939

Harold Temperley, 1879–1939 Get access * Harold Temperley, 1879–1939. By G. P. Gooch. Offprint from The Proceedings of the British Academy. Vol. XXV. 1940. (London : Humphrey Milford. Cr. 8vo. 41 pp. Illus. 3s. 6d.) International Affairs Review Supplement, Volume 19, Issue 3-4, December 1940, Page 200, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia.19.3-4.200c Published: 01 December 1940

Foundations of British Foreign Policy from Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902), or Documents, Old and New. Harold Temperley , Lillian M. PensonA Century of Diplomatic Blue Books, 1814-1914. Harold Temperley , Lillian M. Penson

<i>Foundations of British Foreign Policy from Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902), or Documents, Old and New</i>. Harold Temperley , Lillian M. Penson<i>A Century of Diplomatic Blue Books, 1814-1914</i>. Harold Temperley , Lillian M. Penson

&lt;italic&gt;Foundations of British Foreign Policy from Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902) or Documents, Old and New.&lt;/italic&gt; Selected and edited, with Historical Introductions, by &lt;sc&gt;Harold Temperley&lt;/sc&gt;, Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, and &lt;sc&gt;Lillian M. Penson&lt;/sc&gt;, Professor of Modern History in the University of London. (Cambridge: University Press; New York: Macmillan Company. 1938. Pp. xxx, 573. $7.50.) and

&lt;italic&gt;Foundations of British Foreign Policy from Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902) or Documents, Old and New.&lt;/italic&gt; Selected and edited, with Historical Introductions, by &lt;sc&gt;Harold Temperley&lt;/sc&gt;, Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, and &lt;sc&gt;Lillian M. Penson&lt;/sc&gt;, Professor of Modern History in the University of London. (Cambridge: University Press; New York: Macmillan Company. 1938. Pp. xxx, 573. $7.50.) and

&lt;italic&gt;British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898–1914&lt;/italic&gt;. Volume X, Part II, &lt;italic&gt;The Last Years of Peace&lt;/italic&gt;. Edited by G. P. &lt;sc&gt;Gooch&lt;/sc&gt; and &lt;sc&gt;Harold Temperley&lt;/sc&gt;, with the assistance of &lt;sc&gt;Lillian M. Penson&lt;/sc&gt;. (London: H. M. Stationery Office; New York: British Library of Information. 1938. Pp. lx, 921. $5.25.)

&lt;italic&gt;British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898–1914&lt;/italic&gt;. Volume X, Part II, &lt;italic&gt;The Last Years of Peace&lt;/italic&gt;. Edited by G. P. &lt;sc&gt;Gooch&lt;/sc&gt; and &lt;sc&gt;Harold Temperley&lt;/sc&gt;, with the assistance of &lt;sc&gt;Lillian M. Penson&lt;/sc&gt;. (London: H. M. Stationery Office; New York: British Library of Information. 1938. Pp. lx, 921. $5.25.)

England and the Near East: the Crimea. Harold Temperley

<i>England and the Near East: the Crimea</i>. Harold Temperley

Reviews of Books

Journal Article Reviews of Books Get access British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898–1914. Vol. x, pt. 1.The Near and Middle East on the Eve of the War. Edited by G. P. GOOCH, and HAROLD TEMPERLEY, (London: Stationery Office, 1936.) R. B. MOWAT R. B. MOWAT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LII, Issue CCV, January 1937, Pages 135–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LII.CCV.135 Published: 01 January 1937

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:The Dangers of Being Human. By Edward Glover. he Retreat From Reason. By Lancelot Hogben.Germany's War Machine. By Albert Müller(translated by A. H. Marlow).Hitler: The Pawn. By Rudolf Olden.Europe Under the Terror. By John L. Spivak.The New Germany. By Fritz Ermarth.Government in the Third Reich. By F. M. Marx.Commons Debates 1621. Edited by Wallace Notestein, Frances Helen Relf and Hartley Simpson.The Socia0l Services: A Historical Survey. By W. H. Wickwar.World Population, Past Growth and Present Trends. By A. M. Carr‐Saunders.The Crimea. By Harold Temperley. (Longmans, 25s..) Lord Palmerston. By Herbert C. F. Bell.Toward Social Security. By Eveline M. Burns.France Today and the People's Front. By Maurice Thorez. Translated by Emile Burns.France Faces the Future. By Ralph Fox.Current Problems of Public Policy. Edited by Charles A. Beard. With the collaboration of G. H. E. Smith.Locarno: A Collection of Documents. Edited by Dr. F. J. Berber.Psychology and the Social Order. By J. F. Brown.The American Ideal. By Arthur Bryant.The Alternative to War. By Charles Roden Buxton.English Constitutional Ideas in the I5TH Century. By S. B. Chrimes.The Struggle for Peace. By Stafford CriThe King and his Dominion Governors. By H. Verb Evatt.Under Moscow SkiesBy Maurice Hindus.Pacific Relations. By W. G. Hoffman.Soviet Money and Finance. By L. E. Hubbard.Economics and the Public. By W. H. Hutt.Changing Man: The Soviet Educational System. By Beatrice King.Walls Have Mouths. By W. F. R. Macartney.Poverty and Public Health. By G. C. M. M'Gonigleand J. Kirby.Russia U.S.S.R. Edited by P. Malevsky‐Malevitch.The Peace Settlement in the German‐Polish Borderlands. By Ian F. D. Morrowand L. M. Sieveking.India and the World. By Jawaharlal Nehru.Commerce and Society. By W. F. Oakeshott.The Career of Théophile Delcassé. By Charles W. Porter.Tsushima. By A. Novik.off‐Priboy.On the Rim of the Abyss. By James T. Shotwell.The Law of Peace. By C. van Vollenhoven.American Diplomacy. By Benjamin H. Williams.The Training of Staff and the Technique of Administrative Discretion

Studies in Anglo-French History during the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Studies in Anglo-French History during the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Get access 65. Studies in Anglo-French History during the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Alfred Coville and Harold Temperley. 1935. ( Cambridge University Press. 8vo. xv + 180 pp. 8s. 6d.) E. D. Gannon E. D. Gannon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 14, Issue 6, November-December 1935, Pages 878–880, https://doi.org/10.2307/2601954 Published: 01 November 1935

IX.—THE LAST PHASE, 1870–1933

Annual Bulletin of Historical LiteratureVolume 23, Issue 1 p. 68-74 IX.—THE LAST PHASE, 1870–1933 HAROLD TEMPERLEY, HAROLD TEMPERLEYSearch for more papers by this author HAROLD TEMPERLEY, HAROLD TEMPERLEYSearch for more papers by this author First published: November 1935 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8314.1935.tb00140.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume23, Issue1November 1935Pages 68-74 RelatedInformation