The Lees Knowles Lectureship was established at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1912 and first started in 1915. Lectures are given by distinguished experts in military and naval history and selection for this lectureship is considered one of the highest honours available to specialists in military history and affairs.[1] The lectureship was established by a bequest by Trinity alumnus and military historian Sir Lees Knowles.[2]
| Lectures | |||
| 1915 | Sir Julian Corbett | The Great War after Trafalgar | |
| 1922 | The principal strategical problems affecting the British Empire | ||
| 1923 | The principles of war | ||
| 1924 | The eight principles of war as exemplified in the Palestine campaign, 1915–1918 | ||
| 1924 | Russia before, during and after the Great War | ||
| 1925 | Statesmen and soldiers in the American civil war | ||
| 1927 | Some early crises of the war, and the events leading up to them: Western Front 1914 | ||
| 1928 | Problems of empire defence | ||
| 1929 | Frontiers and boundary delimitations | ||
| 1930 | Hellenistic military developments | ||
| 1931 | Capture at sea in war | ||
| 1932 | The movement of military thought from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and its influence on European history | ||
| 1933 | John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) | Oliver Cromwell as a soldier | |
| 1934 | Military aeronautics applied to modern warfare | ||
| 1936 | The role of British strategy in the Great War | ||
| 1937 | British military history from 1899 to the present | ||
| 1939 | Generalship | ||
| 1940 | Public opinion in war | ||
| 1941 | The nature of modern warfare | ||
| 1942 | War on the civil and military fronts | ||
| 1943 | Amphibious Warfare and Combined Operations | ||
| 1946 | Military strategy as exemplified in World War II | ||
| 1947 | Air power in modern warfare | ||
| 1948 | The influence of sea power upon the history of the British people | ||
| 1949 | Organisation and equipment for war | ||
| 1950 | The influence of war on science | ||
| 1951 | The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940–1 | ||
| 1951 | Capt. G.H. Roberts, RN, | The battles of the Atlantic | |
| 1952 | Some human factors in war | ||
| 1953 | Irregular warfare | ||
| 1954 | Are we training for the last war? | ||
| 1956 | Atomic weapons, 1945–1955 | ||
| 1957 | Cabinet government and war, 1890–1940 | ||
| 1958 | Mediterranean strategy in the 2nd World War | ||
| 1958 | Arms and economics: the changing challenge | ||
| 1960 | Maritime strategy in the twentieth century | ||
| 1961 | The military mind and the spirit of an army | ||
| 1962 | The profession of arms | ||
| 1963 | The strategic air offensive | ||
| 1965 | Science and military affairs | ||
| 1966 | Conduct of British strategy in the 2nd World War | ||
| 1968 | Command | ||
| 1969 | The changing functions of military force in international politics | ||
| 1970 | Conscience and the conduct of war, from the French Revolution through the Franco-Prussian war | ||
| 1971 | War and the development of the international system | ||
| 1972 | Soviet soldiers and Soviet society | ||
| 1973 | Problems of an amphibious power 1795–1808 | ||
| 1974 | European armed forces and the approach of the 2nd World War 1933–39 | ||
| 1974 | Science and defence | ||
| 1975 | Guerilla warfare and political violence | ||
| 1977 | Anglo-American relations and war against Japan 1941–45 | ||
| 1979 | Apostles of mobility | ||
| 1981 | Evolution of nuclear strategic doctrine since 1945 | ||
| 1983 | The French army and politics 1870–1970 | ||
| 1985 | European warfare 1520–1660 | ||
| 1986 | Some fallacies of military history | ||
| 1989 | Vindolanda and the Roman Army: New documents from the northern frontier | ||
| 1990 | English military experience, c.1340 – c.1450 | ||
| 1992 | Dance, drill and bonding in human affairs | ||
| 1995 | The politics of the British Army 1815–1914 | ||
| 1996 | Military force in a changing world | ||
| 1998 | ‘For the freedom of small nations’: Ireland and the Great War | ||
| 2000 | Britain and the First World War: The challenge to historians | ||
| 2002 | The experience of war | ||
| 2004 | War, Armies, and Politics in Early Modern Europe: The Military Devolution, 1560–1660 | ||
| 2006 | What Makes a Soldier? And What Does Not? | ||
| 2008 | 1806: The Cognitive Challenge of War | ||
| 2010 | Andrew Roberts Prof. Nicholas Rodger Prof. Richard Overy Sir Max Hastings | The creation of Anglo-American grand strategy 1941–45 The British Navy in the Second World War Air Power in the Second World War: A War Winner? The British Army in the Second World War | |
| 2012 | Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework | ||
| 2013 | |||
| 2014 | Folly in foreign policy: On the British misadventure in Afghanistan | ||
| 2015 | |||
| 2016 | The Byzantine Art of War | ||
| 2018 | The Culture of Naval War, ca 1850 – 1950 | ||
| 2020 | |||
| 2022 | The Civilianization of War |