The Round Table: Further reading

The early Round Table has been the subject of considerable academic interest. J.R.M. Butler’s Lord Lothian (Macmillan, 1960) and Deborah Lavin’s From Empire to International Commonwealth: A Biography of Lionel Curtis (Oxford University Press, 1995) are biographies of the two principal founders; Walter Nimocks’s Milner’s Young Men (Duke University Press, 1968) is a study of the wider group of which they were members. John Kendle’s The Round Table Movement and Imperial Union (Toronto University Press, 1975) examines the Round Table’s role in the ‘imperial federation’ movement; Alex May’s D.Phil. thesis, ‘The Round Table, 1910-66’ (Oxford, 1995) is a more general study of the Round Table and its influence. A number of views are put forward in Andrea Bosco and Alex May (eds.), The Round Table, The Empire/Commonwealth, and British Foreign Policy (Lothian Foundation Press, 1997). A more critical (though less fully researched) interpretation than any of the above can be found in Carroll Quigley’s The Anglo-American Establishment from Rhodes to Cliveden (Books in Focus, 1981).

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