Charles Webster (historian)

Life

Career

• Professor of Modern History, Liverpool University, 1914–1922
• Subaltern in the Royal Army Service Corps, 1915–1917
• General Staff of the War Office, 1917–1918
• Secretary, Military Section, British Delegation to the Conference of Paris, 1918–1919
• Wilson Professor of International Politics, University of Wales, 1922–1932
• Außerordentlicher Professor, University of Vienna, 1926
• Nobel Lecturer, Oslo, 1926
• Reader, University of Calcutta, India, 1927
• Professor of History, Harvard University, USA, 1928–1932
• Stevenson Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1932–1953
• Foreign Research and Press Service, 1939–1941
• Director, British School of Information, New York, 1941–1942
• Foreign Office, 1943–1946
• Member of British Delegation, Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco Conferences, 1944–1945
• Member, Preparatory Commission and General Assembly, United Nations, 1945–1946
• Ford Lecturer, Oxford University, 1948
• President, 1950–1954, and Foreign Secretary, 1955–1958, British Academy

  Works

• The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815, London: Foreign Office Historical Section, 1919
• The Congress of Vienna, Oxford University Press, 1919,
• British diplomacy, 1813–1815 : select documents dealing with the reconstruction of Europe, 1921, 409p,
• The pacification of Europe, 1813–1815, 1922
• The Congress of Vienna, 1814–15, and the Conference of Paris, 1919, London, 1923
• The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh Britain and the European Alliance, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1925,
• The European alliance, 1815–1825, University of Calcutta, 1929
• What the world owes to President Wilson, London: League of Nations Union, 1930
• The League of Nations in theory and practice, London: Allen and Unwin, 1933
• Palmerston, Metternich and the European system, 1830–1841, London: Humphrey Milford, London, 1934
• Editor of British diplomatic representatives, 1789–1852, London, 1934
• Editor of Britain and the independence of Latin America, 1812–1830, London: Ibero-American Institute of Great Britain, 1938
• Some problems of international organisation, University of Leeds, 1943
• Editor of Some letters of the Duke of Wellington to his brother, William Wellesley-Pole, London, 1948
• The Foreign Policy of Palmerston, 1830–1841: Britain, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Question, 1951,
• The art and practice of diplomacy, London School of Economics, 1952,
• British Foreign Policy since the Second World War
• The founder of the national home, Weizmann Science Press of Israel, 1955
• Sanctions: the use of force in an international organisation, London, 1956
• The strategic air offensive against Germany, 1939–1945, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961, coauthor, 3 volumes, official history