Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life since 1800

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. John Bew is Professor of History and Foreign Policy at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. 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. Michael Ledger-Lomas is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and the author of Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Oxford, 2022). 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. Helen McCarthy is Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Alex Middleton is Fellow in Modern British History at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Susan D. Pennybacker is the Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Kathryn Rix is the Assistant Editor of the House of Commons, 1832-1945 project at the History of Parliament. James Thompson is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Bristol PHILIP WILLIAMSON is Emeritus Professor of modern history at Durham University. Ben Griffin is Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College.

• IntroductionPaul Readman and Geraint ThomasPart I: Writing Modern British HistoryChapter 1. Parry Passu: Jonathan Parry in European EchoMichael BentleyChapter 2. G.M. Trevelyan, Landscape and the Writing of History in England, c.1870-c.1950Paul Readman Part II: NationChapter 3. The Image of the Country House in Victorian Political CultureJames ThompsonChapter 4. Hugh de Sélincourt, The Cricket Match, and Englishness between the WarsMatthew CragoeChapter 5. Nation and Union in the Career of David Lloyd GeorgeGeraint Thomas Part III: Ideas Over Time: Narratives of ChangeChapter 6. Politics, Rhetoric, and the Serial Fluctuations of 'Small State' Ideology in the Long Nineteenth Century and AfterBoyd HiltonChapter 7. The Socialist Lives of Beatrice Webb and Margaret ColeHelen McCarthyChapter 8. 'Great Contemporaries' but Guarded Friends: Winston Churchill and G.M. Trevelyan RevisitedDavid CannadineChapter 9. What Happened to Political Nonconformity?Philip Williamson Part IV: InstitutionsChapter 10. Liberalism, the Law and Parliament in Modern British PoliticsBen GriffinChapter 11. The Backbenchers of the Nineteenth-century Commons: Activity and Accountability in the Age of ReformKathryn RixChapter 12. Lord Salisbury as Modern Political Man, c.1880-1902Tom CreweChapter 13. Edward the Caresser: Monarchy and Religion in the Reign of Edward VIIMichael Ledger-Lomas Part V: Britain in the WorldChapter 14. Irish Realities and British Liberal Self-deception: The Reaches and Limits of British Liberal ConstitutionalismJohn Bew and Paul BewChapter 15. Latin America and British International Thought, 1880-1920Alex MiddletonChapter 16. Cambridge Beginnings, Oxford Departures: 'Liberal Education' and Imperial Legacies, 1945-70Susan D. PennybackerChapter 17. The Curious Case of Wales's Statue to Henry Morton StanleyJoanna Lewis Jonathan Parry: List of Publications IndexTabula Gratulatoria