# Birkbeck Lecture in Ecclesiastical History

The Birkbeck Lectures in Ecclesiastical History have been held at Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1886.

## Lectures

The source for the list below is: "Past Birkbeck Lectures", Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
| Year | Lecturer | Lecture title |
| 1886 | William Cunningham | The Conversion of the Germans |
| 1891 | James Bass Mullinger | Temporal Power of the Papacy: Its Origins and Results |
| 1892 | James Bass Mullinger | Schools of Theology at Cambridge |
| 1896 | William Holden Hutton | The Church in the Sixth Century |
| 1898 | Arthur Cayley Headlam | The Credibility of Early Church History |
| 1900 | John Neville Figgis | Political Theories and Ecclesiastical Parties from the Council of Constance to Grotius |
| 1902 | John Henry Overton | The Nonjurors |
| 1905 | Walter Howard Frere | The History of the Religious Orders in England |
| 1907 | Thomas Scott Holmes | The History of the Christian Church in the Province of Gaul |
| 1908 | Thomas Scott Holmes | The Church in Roman Gaul in the Fifth Century |
| 1909 | William Cunningham | Religion in England during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
| 1911 | George Gordon Coulton | Monasticism from St Bernard to the Reformation |
| 1912 | George Gordon Coulton | Some Aspects of Medieval Church Art |
| 1913 | Reginald L. Poole | Outlines of the History of the Papal Chancery |
| 1913 | William John Birkbeck | |
| 1920 | Terrot R. Glover | Inheritance and Experience in Early Christian Thought |
| 1921 | Cuthbert H. Turner | The Sources and Material of Early Western Canon Law |
| 1924 | James Vernon Bartlet | Church Life and Order in the First Four Centuries |
| 1925 | Alexander James Carlyle | The Principles of the Relation of Church and State in the Middle Ages |
| 1926 | Alexander James Carlyle | The Papacy and the Temporal Powers in the Thirteenth Century |
| 1927–1929 | Hugh Fraser Stewart | Jansenist and Jesuit in the Seventeenth Century |
| 1929–1930 | Zachary N. Brooke | The English Church and the Papacy from William I to John |
| 1932–1933 | Norman Sykes | Church and State in England in the Eighteenth Century |
| 1934–1935 | A. Hamilton Thompson | The English Church at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century |
| 1936–1937 | E. F. Jacob | The Council of Constance |
| 1938 | Charles H. E. Smyth | The Origins of the Evangelical Revival in Cambridge in the Eighteenth Century |
| 1939 | Norman H. Baynes | Byzantine Asceticism |
| 1946 | Francis Dvornik | Church and State in the East |
| 1947 | Ernest Gordon Rupp | Luther Reconsidered |
| 1948 | William Abel Pantin | The English Church in the Fourteenth Century |
| 1948 | Canon John R. H. Moorman | The Grey Friars in Cambridge |
| 1949 | Stephen C. Neill | India and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century |
| 1951 | Henry Outram Evennett | The Counter-Reformation |
| | Margaret Deanesley | The Work of the Western Clergy as Transmitters of the Greco-Roman Tradition in Early Medieval Europe |
| 1953 | Canon Alec Vidler | Lamennais, the Church, and the Revolution |
| 1954 | Stanley Lawrence Greenslade | Six Early Christian Cities of the West |
| 1955 | Kathleen Wood-Legh | The Chantry as an Institution in Medieval Britain |
| 1956 | W. Owen Chadwick | The Idea of Development: From Bossuet to Newman |
| 1957 | Thomas Maynard Parker | God, Man and Politics in Later Medieval Thought |
| 1958 | Gordon Donaldson | The Scottish Reformation |
| 1959 | Derwas J. Chitty | Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism under the Christian Empire |
| 1960 | Sir Richard Southern | St Anselm and His Friends |
| 1961 | Prince Dmitri Obolensky | The Orthodox Church in the Medieval Slavonic Lands |
| 1962 | David Knowles | Two Problems in Monastic History: Regula Magistri and Carta Caritatis |
| | Charles Holwell Talbot | Cluniac Monasticism: Odo to Peter the Venerable |
| 1963 | Robert William Greaves | Politics and the Hanoverian Church of England |
| 1965 | Henry Chadwick | Athanasius and the Arian Controversy |
| 1966 | Sir Steven Runciman | The Church in Constantinople and the Protestant Churches in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |
| 1967 | George S. R. Kitson Clark | Churchmen and the Social Problem: 1835–1885 |
| 1968 | W. H. C. Frend | The Rise of the Monophysite Empire: Some Chapters in the History of the Church in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries |
| 1969 | Walter Ullmann | The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship |
| 1970 | Denys Hay | The Church in Italy in the Fifth Century |
| 1971 | A. G. Dickens | The German Reformation |
| 1972 | David Newsome | Platonic Ideas in English Romantic Thought and Theology |
| 1973 | John Norman Davidson Kelly | Aspects of St Jerome |
| | J. M. Wallace-Hadrill | The Franks and the Uses of Religion |
| 1974 | Basil Hall | The Rise and Fall of Spanish Erasmianism |
| 1976 | John McManners | Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death in Eighteenth-Century France |
| 1977 | Donald M. Nicol | The Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium |
| 1978 | Michael J. Wilks | God's Half Acre: Nationalism and the English Church in the Fourteenth Century |
| 1979 | Edward Norman | Themes in the History of Latin-American Christianity |
| 1981 | Patrick Collinson | The Beginnings of Non-Conformity: Popular Protestantism and Religious Dissent in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England |
| 1983 | Gareth V. Bennett | The Restored Church of England, 1600–1689 |
| 1985 | Brian Tierney | Natural Law and Natural Rights: Languages of Discourse, 1150–1350 |
| 1987 | John Dixon Walsh | Methodism Attacked: The Opposition to Popular Evangelicalism in Eighteenth-Century England |
| 1990 | C. N. L. Brooke | Religion and Learning in Cambridge, 1860–1960 |
| 1993 | Derek Beales | Lazy Monks and Philosophic Spoilers: European Monasteries in the Age of Revolution |
| 1995 | John Bossy | Moral Tradition and Counter-Reformation |
| 1997 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Reformation as Adventure: The England of Edward VI |
| 1999 | Peter Linehan | Culture and Society in Thirteenth-Century Castile: The Life and Times of Archbishop "Gudiel" of Toledo |
| 2001 | Adrian Hastings | Died before he gave the lecture |
| 2004 | Richard Carwardine | "Shall a Nation Be Born at Once?": Evangelical Religion in the Construction of the United States, 1776–1865 |
| 2005 | Patricia Crone | Civic Religion and Rationalist Thought: The Classical Tradition in the Near East Before and After the Rise of Islam |
| 2007 | Eamon Duffy | Inventing the Counter-Reformation |
| 2009 | J. D. Y. Peel | Christianity, Islam, and the Yoruba: World Religions in Comparison and Interaction |
| 2011 | Guy G. Stroumsa | Scriptures, Paideia, and the Religious Revolution of Late Antiquity |
| 2013 | Simon Green | The Rise and Fall of the Faithful City: Christianisation and Dechristianisation in England, 1850–1950 |
| 2015 | Barbara D. Metcalf | Islam in South Asia |
| 2018 | Julia Smith | Christianity in Fragments: The Formation of the Cult of Relics, c. 300–800 |
| 2022 | Gilles Kepel | The History of Modern Jihad, from the Middle East to Europe, 1973-2022 |
| 2023 | Richard Payne | The First Iranians: Religion, Empire and Ethnicity in Late Antiquity |