The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000

David Brown studied at the Universities of East Anglia (BA), Wales (MA) and Southampton (PhD), before moving to Glasgow in 2001 to take up a lectureship in History at the University of Strathclyde, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007. In 2012 he moved to the University of Southampton as Professor of Modern History and since January 2016 he has been Head of the Department of History.Robert Crowcroft studied History at the University of Leeds and was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 2011. He held an AHRC Early Career Fellowship in 2013-2014, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. His interests centre on the character of democratic politics.Gordon Pentland graduated from the University of Oxford in 1999 and returned to his hometown of Edinburgh to complete an MSc in 2000 and a PhD in 2004, after which he worked for eighteen months as a lecturer in European history at the University of York. He returned to Edinburgh in 2006 to take up a two-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship followed by a lectureship in history. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011 and to Reader in 2013.

[The book] is best understood as a well-appointed historiographical labyrinth. You never have the first idea what will be around the next corner, and this makes for an unusual, occasionally bewildering, and often highly-rewarding reading experience. There is no historian in the field who will not get something out of the volume, provided they do not step in expecting something different.

• 1: David Brown, Robert Crowcroft, and Gordon Pentland: Introduction Part I. Concepts and Historiographies 2: David Craig: Political Ideas and Languages 3: Steven Fielding: High Politics 4: Malcolm Chase: Popular Politics Part II. Institutions, Structures and Machinery 5: Philip Harling: The State 6: Philip Salmon: Parliament 7: Andrew Blick: Prime Minister and Cabinet 8: Hugh Pemberton: The Civil Service 9: Richard Whiting: Trade Unions 10: David Brown: The Press 11: James Mitchell: Devolution 12: Ben Weinstein: Local Government 13: Andrzej Olechnowicz: The Monarchy 14: Simon Green: Religion and the Churches Part III. Parties, Doctrines and Leaders 15: Angus Hawkins: Political Parties 16: Jeremy Nuttall: Ideology in Action 17: Ian Packer: Whigs and Liberals 18: John Charmley: Tories and Conservatives 19: Lawrence Black: The Labour Party 20: Kevin Morgan: 'Third' and Fringe Parties 21: Robert Crowcroft: The Role of the Politician in the Democratic Regime Part IV. Elections and Popular Politics 22: Gordon Pentland: Parliamentary Reform 23: Luke Blaxill: Elections 24: Jennifer Davey: Women and Politics 25: Laura Beers: Political Communication 26: Henry Miller: Petitioning and Demonstrating Part V. Challenges 27: James Thompson: Democracy 28: Jim Tomlinson: The Economy 29: Simon Smith: Imperial Policy 30: Simon Ball: War and the State 31: Geoff Hicks: Britain and Europe 32: Pat Thane: Welfare and the State Epilogue 33: Anthony Seldon and Mark Davies: In Defence of Contemporary History