EXCRANGB 

 AUG 4 1915 



DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCED HISTORICAL STUDY. 



The critical use of Historical Sources and the Method of Historical Composition 

 have formed, from the first, an essential feature of the course of instruction 

 provided at the School of Economics. In addition to the supervision afforded 

 by the respective seminars, classes have been also held since Lent Term, 1896, 

 for special instruction in Palaeography, Diplomatic, and the Classification and 

 Bibliography of Historical Sources. In connection with these classes a seminar 

 has also been held for the purpose of practical instruction and exercise in the 

 technical process of transcribing, extending and editing historical documents. 

 These exercises have already resulted in the publication of the Receipt Roll of 

 the Exchequer for Michaelmas Term of the thirty-first year of Henry the Second 

 (118.5), and the Pipe Roll of the Exchequer of the See of Winchester for the 

 fourth year of the Episcopate of Peter des Roches (1207), edited by the class, 

 in the series of publications issued by the School. This seminar has the further 

 object of enabling research students to become acquainted with the contents 

 of public archives and libraries by means of organised visits of inspection. 



In the Summer Term of 1902 the instruction given at the School in the 

 department of higher historical teaching was materially enlarged by the tempo- 

 rary endowment of a " Creighton " Lectureship in the " Study of Historical 

 Sources." This was the result of a movement set on foot by the President 

 of the Royal Historical Society and other distinguished scholars forming a 

 " Committee for furthering Advanced Historical Study in London." The offer of 

 the committee to defray the stipend of a lecturer for a period of three years 

 was accepted by the Governors of the School, and the "Creighton" lectures 

 in Historical Sources were forthwith arranged. 



At the same time Mr. Passmore Edwards generously offered to provide an 

 equal endowment for a second Lectureship in higher Historical Studies, and 

 his offer having been accepted both by the Committee for furthering Advanced 

 Historical Studies and by the Governors of the School, a " Passmore Edwards " 

 lecturer was appointed for the purpose of continuing the systematic instruction 

 in Palaeography and Diplomatic, for which no adequate provision could be made 

 from the " General Purposes Fund " at the disposal of the School. The 

 technical subjects of the Classification and Bibliography of Historical Sources, 

 which had hitherto been combined in the former courses on Palaeography and 

 Diplomatic, were specially recognised by the University of London in the appoint- 

 ment of a Teacher in Early Economic Sources, and a further course of lectures 

 and a seminar have been established in this department. 



Economic History, which occupies such an important place both in the general 

 scheme of Historical Studies and in the Curricula of the University of London, 

 is represented by a two. -years' .ao,urse;of lectures on "Modern Economic History," 

 which is co-ordinated" -"with se.veira'1: oliher courses, embracing " The Economic Posi- 

 tion of the Great P.QVprPi": . ''. Th^ 0.);ga^iiisation and Structure of Modern Industry 

 and Commerce," '""FtDri-eigh'-'Trad'e,'*- "•'Currency," etc., "Historical Geography," 

 " French Commercial History," and elaborate courses on modern European 

 History, Political and Economic. 



In the Historical Section are also included several independent or subsidiary 

 courses, such as the " History of Political Ideas," in Europe and the United 

 States, the History of the English Poor Laws, the Constitutional History of 

 England and her Colonies, Constitutional Law and History, "The Financial 

 Systems of England, France and Germany " and " The Economic Position of 

 England," Foreign Trade with the Far East, and "French Commercial History." 



It will be evident from the above analysis of the work in the Historical 

 department of the School that it affords perhaps unequalled facilities for the 

 study of Mediaeval and Modern History in its Political, Constitutional, Economic 

 and Social bearings, as well as for the definite and scientific pursuit of Historical 

 research. 



