Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Writing Modern British History
8. 1 Parry Passu: Jonathan Parry in European Echo 17
9. 2 G.M. Trevelyan, Landscape and the Writing of History in England, c.1870–c.1950 38
10. Part II: Nation
11. 3 The Image of the Country House in Victorian Political Culture 61
12. 4 Hugh de Sélincourt, The Cricket Match, and Englishness between the Wars 82
13. 5 Nation and Union in the Career of David Lloyd George 102
14. Part III: Ideas Over Time: Narratives of Change
15. 6 Politics, Rhetoric and the Serial Fluctuations of ‘Small State’ Ideology in the Long Nineteenth Century and After 123
16. 7 The Socialist Lives of Beatrice Webb and Margaret Cole 143
17. 8 ‘Great Contemporaries’ but Guarded Friends: Winston Churchill and G.M. Trevelyan Revisited 164
18. 9 What Happened to Political Nonconformity? 190
19. Part IV: Institutions
20. 10 Liberalism, the Law and Parliament in Modern British Politics 213
21. 11 The Backbenchers of the Nineteenth-century Commons: Activity and Accountability in the Age of Reform 233
22. 12 Lord Salisbury as Modern Political Man, c.1880–1902 252
23. 13 Edward the Caresser: Monarchy and Religion in the Reign of Edward VII 272
24. Part V: Britain in the World
25. 14 Irish Realities and British Liberal Self-deception: The Reaches and Limits of British Liberal Constitutionalism 295
26. 15 Latin America and British International Thought, 1880–1920 310
27. 16 Cambridge Beginnings, Oxford Departures: ‘Liberal Education’ and Imperial Legacies, 1945–70 330
28. 17 The Curious Case of Wales’s Statue to Henry Morton Stanley 349
29. Jonathan Parry: List of Publications 371
30. Index 378
31. Tabula Gratulatoria 387