Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FIGURES vii
4. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
6. PREFACE xiv
7. PART I AN INDIVIDUAL AND HIS INSTITUTIONS
8. Chapter 1 David Cannadine, History and British Institutions 1
9. Chapter 2 David Cannadine and the Monarchy 19
10. Chapter 3 ‘A Small Lighted Candle’: Trusteeship and the National Portrait Gallery 29
11. Chapter 4 David Cannadine and Philanthropy 34
12. PART II THE THEATRE OF STATE
13. Chapter 5 Disraeli as Theatre 43
14. Chapter 6 The Primrose, the Salon and the East: Henry Drummond Wolff and Disraelian Aristocratic Politics 63
15. Chapter 7 Dining in the Palace of Varieties: Institutional Culture, Society Living and Party Management in the Victorian House of Commons 86
16. Chapter 8 History as His Story: Churchill, Memoirs and Public History 105
17. Chapter 9 Last Post: Retirement at the British Foreign Office 124
18. PART III SOME METROPOLITAN INSTITUTIONS
19. Chapter 10 From Bloomsbury to the World: The Institute of Historical Research, Academic Habitus, and Historians as Public Intellectuals, 1921–39 147
20. Chapter 11 The London Library in its Early Decades: Social and Political Connections of a Victorian Institution 169
21. Chapter 12 The Museum as Theatre: Sir Roy Strong at the National Portrait Gallery 186
22. PART IV PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND POST-WAR BRITAIN
23. Chapter 13 The Origins of Britain’s National Parks: Laurie Lee, Walter Greenwood and the Documentary Film Park Here (1947) 205
24. Chapter 14 Geoffrey Crowther, Economics and Anglo-American Futures 223
25. Chapter 15 Boommanship: Noel Annan, Ambition, and Academic Life 242
26. Chapter 16 Owen Chadwick and the Writing of Christian History 261
27. DAVID CANNADINE’S PUBLICATIONS 284
28. INDEX 294