Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry

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Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life since 1800

Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry

Edited by: Paul Readman and Geraint Thomas
With contributions by: Michael Bentley , John Bew , Michael Bentley , John Bew , Sir David Cannadine , A J Boyd Hilton , Michael Ledger-Lomas , Joanna Lewis , Helen McCarthy , Alex Middleton , Susan D. Pennybacker , Kathryn Rix , James Thompson , Philip Williamson and Ben Griffin

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture, thought and belief are integral to the fabric of politics, high and low, foreign and domestic. They are woven into the day-to-day business of debate, policy and decision-making. This book shows how and why they have mattered so much. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Parry, it explores the cultural and intellectual influences on politics both formal and informal since the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring original interventions by some of the world's leading historians, the essays in the volume are organised around themes of central relevance to the understanding of modern British political history. They explore a wide range of subjects across political life and its intellectual and cultural hinterlands, including constitutionalism and international political thought, anticolonial activism, race and imperial commemoration, female political thinkers, parliament, monarchy and the law, the politics of religion, and patriotism and national identity. This is an agenda-setting text that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London.
Dr Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

Contributors: Michael Bentley, John Bew, Paul Bew, David Cannadine, Matthew Cragoe, Tom Crewe, Ben Griffin, Boyd Hilton, Michael Ledger-Lomas, Joanna Lewis, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Susan D. Pennybacker, Kathryn Rix, James Thompson, Philip Williamson

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Contributor: Paul Readman Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. --- Contributor: Geraint Thomas Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. --- Contributor: John Bew John Bew is Professor of History and Foreign Policy at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. --- Contributor: David Cannadine Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Oxford, and the General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. --- Contributor: Michael Ledger-Lomas Michael Ledger-Lomas is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and the author of Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Oxford, 2022). --- Contributor: Joanna Lewis Joanna Lewis is Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics, where she is also Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security. --- Contributor: Helen McCarthy Helen McCarthy is Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. --- Contributor: Alex Middleton Alex Middleton is Fellow in Modern British History at St Hugh's College, Oxford. --- Contributor: Susan D. Pennybacker Susan D. Pennybacker is the Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. --- Contributor: Kathryn Rix Kathryn Rix is the Assistant Editor of the House of Commons, 1832-1945 project at the History of Parliament. --- Contributor: James Thompson James Thompson is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Bristol --- Contributor: Philip Williamson PHILIP WILLIAMSON is Emeritus Professor of modern history at Durham University. --- Contributor: Ben Griffin Ben Griffin is Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Paul Readman and Geraint Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Writing Modern British History
1 Parry Passu: Jonathan Parry in European Echo Michael Bentley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
2 G.M. Trevelyan, Landscape and the Writing of History in England, c.1870–c.1950 Paul Readman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
Part II: Nation
3 The Image of the Country House in Victorian Political Culture James Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
4 Hugh de Sélincourt, The Cricket Match, and Englishness between the Wars Matthew Cragoe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
5 Nation and Union in the Career of David Lloyd George Geraint Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
Part III: Ideas Over Time: Narratives of Change
6 Politics, Rhetoric and the Serial Fluctuations of ‘Small State’ Ideology in the Long Nineteenth Century and After Boyd Hilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
7 The Socialist Lives of Beatrice Webb and Margaret Cole Helen McCarthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
8 ‘Great Contemporaries’ but Guarded Friends: Winston Churchill and G.M. Trevelyan Revisited David Cannadine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	164
9 What Happened to Political Nonconformity? Philip Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	190
Part IV: Institutions
10 Liberalism, the Law and Parliament in Modern British Politics Ben Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
11 The Backbenchers of the Nineteenth-century Commons: Activity and Accountability in the Age of Reform Kathryn Rix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
12 Lord Salisbury as Modern Political Man, c.1880–1902 Tom Crewe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	252
13 Edward the Caresser: Monarchy and Religion in the Reign of Edward VII Michael Ledger-Lomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	272
Part V: Britain in the World
14 Irish Realities and British Liberal Self-deception: The Reaches and Limits of British Liberal Constitutionalism John Bew and Paul Bew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
15 Latin America and British International Thought, 1880–1920 Alex Middleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	310
16 Cambridge Beginnings, Oxford Departures: ‘Liberal Education’ and Imperial Legacies, 1945–70 Susan D. Pennybacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	330
17 The Curious Case of Wales’s Statue to Henry Morton Stanley Joanna Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Jonathan Parry: List of Publications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	378
Tabula Gratulatoria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387

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