Conversations with Emeritus Professor Stroud Francis Charles (Toby) Milsom: A Journey from Heretic to Giant in English Legal History

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Dingle
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
London School ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
The University

AbstractLesley Dingle, founder of the Eminent Scholars Archive at Cambridge, gives a further contribution in this occasional series concerning the lives of notable legal academics. On this occasion, the focus of her attention is Stroud Francis Charles (Toby) Milsom QC BA who retired from his chair of Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge in 2000 after a distinguished career as a legal historian at the universities of Oxford, London School of Economics and St John's College Cambridge. His academic life and contentious theories on the development of the Common Law at the end of the feudal system in England were discussed in a series of interviews at his home in 2009. At the core are aspects of his criticism of the conclusions of the nineteenth century historian Frederick William Maitland, upon which the teaching of the early legal history of England was largely based during much of the 20th century. Also included are insights into his research methods in deciphering the parchment Plea Rolls in the Public Records Office, and anecdotes relating to his tenure as Dean at New College Oxford (1956–64) as well as associations with the Selden Society: he was its Literary Director, and later President during its centenary in 1987. Professor Milsom also briefly talked of his memories of childhood during WWII and his inspirational studies as a student at the University of Pennsylvania (1947–48).

Edward Shils and his Portraits

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Bryan S. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
London School ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Edward Shils ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
The University

Edward Shils’ Portraits offers various intellectual biographies of major figures that played a large role in his life, mainly at the University of Chicago. The list is diverse including economists, sociologists, natural scientists, and historians of the ancient world. The diversity illustrates the breadth of Shils’ academic work. The famous Committee for Social Thought was a key institution in Shils’ intellectual development and, while Portraits can be read as a history of the University of Chicago during the twentieth century, Shils was a trans-Atlantic intellectual with close connections to Peterhouse College Cambridge and the London School of Economics. Portraits is a celebration of the Chicago tradition created by Robert Maynard Hutchins University President (1929-1945) for the in-depth study of ‘great books’, but Shils concludes with a nostalgic reflection on the end of the ‘age of books’. The narrative is haunted by the figure of Max Weber, whose rationalization thesis has been borne out with the rise of the bureaucratic corporate university and the narrow specialization of research.

English Criminal Justice Administration, 1650–1850: A Historiographic Essay

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Legal History ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Law ◽  
The University

In his inaugural lecture as Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge, delivered in October 1888, Frederic Maitland offered a set of provocative and now familiar reflections on “Why the history of English law is not written.” According to Maitland, although English archives possessed “a series of records which for continuity, catholicity, minute detail[,] and authoritative value” had “no equal…in the world,” the “unmanageable bulk” of these sources had “overburdened” aspiring historians of English law. As a result, “large provinces” of English legal history remained to be “reclaimed from the waste.” With few willing to undertake such reclamation efforts, the historiography of English law remained as bleak and barren as the bogs from which Maitland's Cambridgeshire had itself only reluctantly emerged.

Terence Wilmot Hutchison 1912–2007

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
London School ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
The University

Terence Wilmot Hutchison (1912–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a historian of economics, methodologist, and acerbic critic of hubris and pretension amongst economists. He was born at Bournemouth and grew up in London. Hutchison's father was the flamboyant and much married Robert Langton Douglas, while his mother was Grace Hutchison. It was as a classicist that he went to the University of Cambridge in 1931. But Hutchison quickly lost interest in a subject that seemed to him to have little relevance to the economic turmoil of the world, and switched to economics, graduating in 1934 with a First. He left Cambridge in 1934 and registered as an occasional student at the London School of Economics (LSE). This chapter presents a biography of Hutchison and also narrates his trips to Germany, Iraq, and India, as well as his stints at the University of Hull, LSE, and the University of Birmingham.

Why is the Museum on the Web?

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
Judith Scotchmoor ◽  
Claus Hedegaard
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

The Classic usage of the term museum implies a collection of objects, not a display, though this has been the common usage since the late 19th century. The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is predominantly a museum in the classic sense. In this case the collection of objects is a research and study collection of fossil and Recent organisms. Visitors will find a few display cases, a very impressive Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton accompanied by a Pteranodon ingens flying overhead, a couple of dinosaur skulls, and plans for expansion. However, the overwhelming part of the collections is not usually accessible to the public. Nonetheless it is the mission of UCMP “…to facilitate the understanding of the history of life through service to research to education, and to the public.” It is the use of technology that has allowed us to more effectively reach the public sector.

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