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Annual Report of the Delegacy Departmental Notes Professor King gave lectures in the Universities of Manchester and East Anglia Dr Mary Gilbert attended the first meeting of the Hugo von Hofmannsthal Society in Frankfurt and submitted paper Mr Beckley Mr Flood Dr Fowler Mr Glass and Mr Jones attended the 32nd Meeting of the Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland at Christ Church Oxford March 31st to April 3rd 1969 The King's College German Society gave four performances of Der Besuch der Alien Dame by Friedrich Diirrenmatt in March 1969 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Number of Students Subsidiary 10 Honours 88 Postgraduate of whom 15 are reading Imperial His- tory 41 Departmental Notes Professor Elliott paid short visit to the United States at Easter during which he gave lecture and conducted seminar at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on 'Revolts in the Spanish Monarchy in the seventeenth century' This was part of special lecture series on 'Preconditions of revolution in Early Modern History' Professor Graham lectured to the Salisbury Branch of the His- torical Association in November on 'Pax Britannica and the balance of power in the nineteenth century' at the University of South Africa Pretoria in January on 'The Empire in retrospect' and gave the Reid Lectures at Acadia University Nova Scotia in March on 'Colonies by repulsion' Dr Duggan delivered four inter-collegiate lectures at the Senate House on 'Papal institutions in the Middle Ages' Dr Brown read paper on 'The historian's approach to the origins of the castle in England' to the Institute of Historical Research and other papers on the subject of castles to the Historical Archaeo- logical Societies of the Universities of Cardiff and Birmingham He