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Andrew Lang Lecture
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<h2 id="lectures">Lectures</h2> <ul><li>December 1927 – 'Andrew Lang', by <a href="/facts/George_Stuart_Gordon/oECfPIro">George Gordon</a>.</li> <li>1928 – 'Andrew Lang's work for Homer', by Alexander Shewan.</li> <li>1929 – 'The raw material of religion', by <a href="/facts/Robert_Ranulph_Marett/Bey66frn">R. R. Marett</a>.</li> <li>1930 – 'Andrew Lang as historian', by <a href="/facts/Robert_Rait/0thwC2dp">Robert S. Rait</a>.</li> <li>1931 – 'Andrew Lang and the Maid of France', by <a href="/facts/Louis_Cazamian/bzd22YxX">Louis Cazamian</a></li> <li>1932 – 'Andrew Lang and the Border', by <a href="/facts/John_Buchan/jKfRjwjL">John Buchan</a> (Lord Tweedsmuir).</li> <li>6 December 1933 – 'Lang, Lockhart and biography', by <a href="/facts/H._J._C._Grierson/zvGISX7o">H. J. C. Grierson</a>.</li> <li>21 November 1934 – 'Andrew Lang and the House of Stuart', by <a href="/facts/John_Duncan_(painter)/A5GKkM3U">John Duncan</a>.</li> <li>1937 – 'Andrew Lang's poetry', by A. Blyth Webster.</li> <li>8 March 1939 – '<a href="/facts/On_Fairy-Stories/oJmToNE4">On Fairy-Stories</a>', by <a href="/facts/J._R._R._Tolkien/41HPhk5C">J. R. R. Tolkien</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li>7 May 1947 – 'Andrew Lang the poet', by <a href="/facts/Gilbert_Murray/p8eDgQTc">Gilbert Murray</a>.</li> <li>5 April 1948 – 'Law and custom', by <a href="/facts/Hugh_Macmillan,_Baron_Macmillan/zEBRBnhn">Hugh Pattisan MacMillan, Baron MacMillan</a>.</li> <li>11 May 1949 – 'Andrew Lang and the <a href="/facts/Casket_letters/0s0MF6ev">casket letter</a> controversy' by <a href="/facts/J._B._Black/3fWg9ARe">J. B. Black</a>.</li> <li>11 May 1950 – 'Andrew Lang and journalism', by <a href="/facts/J._B._Salmond/PLRqqeaI">J. B. Salmond</a>.</li> <li>25 April 1951 – 'Andrew Lang : his place in anthropology', by <a href="/facts/H._J._Rose/DPKSa6xk">Herbert J. Rose</a>.</li> <li>14 November 1951 – 'Andrew Lang, <a href="/facts/John_Knox/7KXrfy6p">John Knox</a> and Scottish Presbyterianism', by <a href="/facts/William_Croft_Dickinson/pFwlfuoI">William Croft Dickinson</a>.</li> <li>16 February 1955 – 'Homer and his forerunners', by <a href="/facts/Maurice_Bowra/tY8L0wwS">Maurice Bowra</a>.</li> <li>14 November 1956 – 'Shakespeare's Scotland', by James Fergusson.</li> <li>8 February 1978 – 'The writing of Scottish history in the time of Andrew Lang', R.G. Cant.</li> <li>(not known) 1980 – 'Physiological Symbols', <a href="/facts/Rodney_Needham/UESmGHVf">Rodney Needham</a>.</li> <li>26 January 1988 – 'The Scottish paradox' by <a href="/facts/Gordon_Wilson_(Scottish_politician)/dEz7KG79">Gordon Wilson</a></li> <li>29 April 2004 – 'Hamlet and the Tables of Memory' by Peter Stallybrass <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>1 November 2012 – 'Folklore versus Fakelore: An Imagined Conversation with Andrew Lang' by <a href="/facts/Jane_Yolen/qXPVhAV5">Jane Yolen</a>, the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>31 October 2017 - " Andrew Lang and the Folkloristic Legacy of 'The Forest'" by <a href="/facts/Lizanne_Henderson/INps72he">Lizanne Henderson</a>, 90th Anniversary Lecture</li> <li>16 February 2021 - 'Andrew Lang's Fairy Tales' by Andrew Teverson, the first Andrew Lang lecture to be delivered on-line</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://138.251.116.3/search/">University of St. Andrews Library catalogue</a>[<i>permanent dead link</i>]</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Inside Tolkien's Mind 04 Mar 2004". Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2006-04-11. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070310224433/http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference=610" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070310224433/http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference=610</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-13. Retrieved 2006-04-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070313063913/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/Stallybrass.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070313063913/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/Stallybrass.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"SFScope » Jane Yolen to lecture at St Andrews". Archived from the original on 2015-10-17. Retrieved 2013-01-24. <a href="http://www.sfscope.com/2012/09/jane-yolen-to-lecture-at-st-andrews/" target="_blank">http://www.sfscope.com/2012/09/jane-yolen-to-lecture-at-st-andrews/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Author Jane Yolen Talks Book Banning and Harry Potter | Underwire | Wired.com". Archived from the original on 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2013-01-23. <a href="https://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/geeks-guide-jane-yolen/" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/geeks-guide-jane-yolen/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>