13 DECEMBER 1968, page 5

The Past And The Present

LSE ORATION HUGH TREVOR-ROPER A historian, like other men, lives in the present: but his study is of the past; and coming as do from Oxford, where some vestiges of past habits......

Editor 's Note

This is an abridged version of Professor Trevor- Roper's Oration Day address at the London School of Economics, given on 6 December. The full text will in due course be......