The Quentin Skinner Lectureship in Intellectual History since 1500

The 2025 Quentin Skinner Fellow is Max Skjönsberg from the Hamilton Centre for Classical and Civic Education. His Lecture, 'The Spirit of the Constitution', took place on 6 June 2025.  You can watch it here on YouTube.

Quentin Skinner Lecture 2025. Max Skjönsberg (Hamilton Centre for Classical and Civic Education) speaks on The Spirit of the Constitution.

The 2026 Quentin Skinner Lectureship has yet to be announced. For information on past lectures, please see our Quentin Skinner Lecture Archive.

About the The Quentin Skinner Lectureship

Created by the generosity of Professor Quentin Skinner after the award of the Balzan Prize, the Quentin Skinner Lectureship (formerly the Balzan-Skinner Fellowship) allows an early career scholar to spend a sabbatical term or semester in Cambridge in order to work on a discrete piece of research under the umbrella of modern intellectual history - with ‘modern’ being since c. 1500 and ‘early career’ within ten years of attaining the PhD.  The result of their time in Cambridge is presented in a public lecture and symposium and will be published, subject to peer review, in the Historical Journal.

An appointment is made annually. Please note that the terms of the fellowship do not cover the cost of release from academic duties at the fellowship holder’s employing institution.

For more information see the Quentin Skinner Lectureship page on the CRASSH website.