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James Wycliffe Headlam
1863–1929
A historian and classicist who moved from scholarship into the center of British foreign-policy work, he helped shape official thinking during and after the First World War. His writing combines a teacher’s clarity with a close interest in Germany and European politics.
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Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
by James Wycliffe Headlam
About the author
Born in 1863, Sir James Wycliffe Headlam-Morley was a British historian, classicist, and civil servant. He was known as James Wycliffe Headlam until 1918, when he changed his surname to Headlam-Morley by royal licence.
He began as an academic historian but became increasingly involved in public affairs, serving as a government adviser on foreign policy. He is especially associated with work on Germany and with British policy discussions around the First World War and the peace settlement that followed.
Headlam-Morley also wrote extensively, including historical and political works intended to explain European affairs to a wider readership. He was knighted in 1929 for public service and died the same year.