Crosby Kemper Lectureship
The Lectureship
The Crosby Kemper Lectureship was established in 1979 by a grant from the Crosby Kemper Foundation of Kansas City, Missouri. It is intended to provide for lectures by authorities on British History or Sir Winston Churchill at the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The established Lectureship is held under the auspices of the British Institute of the United States and the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library.
The Lectures
View the text of the Crosby Kemper Lectures.
The Lecturers
The official biographer of Churchill, Martin Gilbert, gave the inaugural lecture in 1981. Subsequent speakers have been:
- Sir John Plumb, F.B.A. (1983)
- Sir William Deakin, D.S.O. (1984)
- Sir John Colville, C.B. C.V.O. (1985)
- Robert Rhodes James, M.P. (1986)
- Lord Blake, F.B.A., J.P. (1987)
- Philip S. Ziegler (1988)
- Sir Michael Howard (1990)
- The Lady Soames, D.B.E. (1991)
- Professor Reginald V. Jones, C.B.E. (1992)
- Hon. Edwina Sandys, M.B.E. (1993)
- the Rt. Hon. Lord Amery (1994)
- Robin W. Winks, F.R. Hist. S. (1995)
- Professor John Lukacs (1997)
- Professor William Rogers Louis (1998)
- Philip M. H. Bell (1999)
- Andrew Roberts (2000)
- Richard B. Frank (2001)
- the Rt. Hon. Lord Jenkins (2002)
- Celia Sandys (2003)
- John Ramsden (2005)
- Sir Martin Gilbert (2007)
- Christopher Catherwood (2008)
- Lynne Olson (2009)
- Carlo D'Este (2010) ...April 18, 2010