62:. "Imagine the setting," writes Wm. Roger Louis, the director. "Dark wood paneling, the occasional Topolski paintings of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, and spacious glass windows. A magnificent seminar table overlooks a courtyard graced with live oaks and the scattered ashes of one of the founding members of the seminar. On arrival at the seminar, the participants help themselves to a glass of Tio Pepe or Dry Sack sherry, though teetotalers prefer cranberry juice. Sherry has come to symbolize the attitude. The seminar meets to examine in a civilized way whatever happens to be on the agenda, Scottish or Indian, Canadian or Jamaican, English or Australian. The discussion is civil, but sometimes grows a bit heated. What makes the debate engrossing is the clash of different perspectives—including those of lawyers, physicians, retired ambassadors, and others of the larger Austin community."
31:, a founding member of the seminar and a distinguished historian at the University of Texas. The seminar is sponsored by the British Studies Program at UT, a program that also appoints junior fellows annually from among UT's faculty, and offers Churchill Scholarships to graduate students and undergraduates. The seminar has produced a book series—with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and I.B. Tauris of London— containing a selection of lectures delivered to the seminar:
177:(director of the Political Science Institute, Cologne University, and visiting fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), "The Impact of Britain on German Politics and Society since the Second World War"
499:(East Anglia University, visiting professor of history, Princeton), "The Contradiction between British Strategic Policy and Economic Policy in the Twentieth Century"
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214:(professor of Japanese history, London School of Economics), "Anglo-American Naval Rivalry and the End of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance"
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See for details the collection of autobiographies produced by members of the
British Studies seminar: Wm. Roger Louis (ed.),
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116:(former Gladstone Professor of Government, Oxford University, present principal of Buckingham College), "Imperial Sunset"
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543:(professor of history, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University), "Family, Sex, and Marriage in England"
228:(chairman, international advisory board, The Blackstone Group), "The Evolution of the British Economy since 1945"
275:(Wallace Professor of Humanities, Stanford University), "England and Europe on the Eve of the Second World War"
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185:(Indian High Commissioner, London, and former ambassador to the United States), "The Political Crisis in India"
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362:(professor of international relations, Australia National University), "The Collapse of the British Empire"
515:(professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Lord Zuckerman and the Second World War"
440:(director, Commonwealth Studies Institute, University of London), "Power and Inequality in Southeast Asia"
377:(professor of history, Columbia University), "The British Press: Press Lords, Politicians, and Principles"
132:(Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University), "The Origins and Aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War"
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470:(professor of history and literature, Harvard University), "Great Historians of the Nineteenth Century"
100:(UT History), "Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Future of Dependent Peoples during the Second World War"
283:(British publisher and writer), "Publishing Under the Bombs - The Hogarth Press during World War II"
595:(professor of history, University of the West Indies), "West Indian Emigres and the British Empire"
199:(UT history), "Declassification of Secret Documents: The British and American Experiences Compared"
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476:(University of Sussex), "Flightpath to Dresden: British Strategic Bombing in the Second World War"
529:(Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, Oxford University), "Writing a Biography of Joyce"
405:(professor of political Science, University of Wisconsin), "Britain and the Suez Crisis of 1956"
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155:(professor of English, University of Paris), "Reassessments of Evelyn Waugh"
338:(former US ambassador), "The Katanga Crisis: British and other Connections"
291:(former M.P.), "The Mood of Britain: Misplaced Gloom or Blind Complacency?"
108:(biographer, Dublin), "Two Biographies: Lytton Strachey and Augustus John"
244:(UT dean of social and behavioral sciences), "Adam Smith after 200 Years"
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323:(vice-chancellor of Cambridge University), "Higher Education in England"
484:(American music historian), "The British Musical Invasion of America"
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464:(economics), "The Professionalization of the British Civil Service"
385:(professor of geography, Oxford University), "The Rhodesian Crisis"
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393:(English poet and writer), "Britain and the Spanish Civil War"
573:(director, Eisenhower Library), "Eisenhower and the British"
448:(British Labour Politician), "The Labour Party and Africa"
603:(president of UT), "An Appreciation of Charles Dickens"
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535:(Scottish dramatist), "Contemporary British Theatre"
399:(Australian Consul General), "Wombats and Wivveroos"
521:(English poet), "English Poets and Postwar Society"
309:(professor of history, University of Chicago), and
171:(physicist, novelist), "Elite Education in England"
315:, "The Origins of World War II in the Pacific"
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70:A full list of all lectures is available in
567:(British biographer), "George Bernard Shaw"
589:(British composer), "Moving into Aquarius"
660:(London: I.B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 907-952.
297:(professor of history, Yale University),
343:Michael Fraser, Lord Fraser of Kilmorack
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647:(London: I.B. Tauris, 2005), pp. v-vi.
456:(Indian writer), "Gandhi and Gandhism"
92:(novelist, London), "The Raj Quartet"
49:Penultimate Adventures with Britannia
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551:, "Reflections on the Two Cultures"
53:Ultimate Adventures with Britannia
45:Yet More Adventures with Britannia
21:Faculty Seminar on British Studies
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151:(UT professor of history), and
445:John Charles Hatch, Lord Hatch
37:More Adventures with Britannia
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634:(London: I.B. Tauris, 2005).
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