capable of overbearingness – terrible lions if you trod on their tales [sic]". Tempeley also influenced British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's European foreign policy, including appeasement of the Axis Powers and the Munich Agreement. Works The Life of Canning (1905) History of Serbia (London: Bell, 1917) Frederic the Great and Kaiser Joseph: An Episode of War and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century (1915) A history of the Peace Conference of Paris, (6 vols) 1920–24; The foreign policy of Canning, 1822–1827 (1925) British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898–1914 (1926–1938) with George Peabody Gooch I. The end of British isolation II The Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Franco-British entente III. The testing of the entente, 1904-6 IV The Anglo-Russian rapprochement, 1903-7 V. The Near East: The Macedonian problem and the annexation of Bosnia, 1903-9 VI Anglo-German tension: armaments and negotiation, 1907–12 VII The Agadir Crisis VIII. Arbitration, neutrality and security IX.1. The Balkan wars: The prelude. The Tripoli war IX.2 The Balkan wars: The League and Turkey X.1 The Near and Middle East on the eve of war X.2 The last years of peace XI The outbreak of war Europe in the Nineteenth Century (1927) with A. J. Grant, textbook later updated England and the Near East: The Crimea (1936) The Foundation of British Foreign Policy (1938) with L. M. Penson A Century of Diplomatic Blue Books, 1814–1914 (1938) with L. M. Penson Diaries 1916–1939, edited by T.G. Otte. Ashgate Publishing (An Historian in Peace and War: The Diaries of Harold Temperley) (2014) See also Ernest Satow who corresponded with Temperley Herbert Butterfield had Temperley as his mentor Notes References John D. Fair, Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm, University of Delaware Press, 1992. Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge People educated at Sherborne School British historians 1879 births 1939 deaths Masters of Peterhouse, Cambridge British Army personnel of World War I Academics of the University of Cambridge Officers of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the British Academy International relations historians