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From Belloc to Churchill : private scholars, public culture, and the crisis of British liberalism, 1900-1939

Author: Victor Feske
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J. L. and Barbara Hammond, G. M. Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill. These writers recast the nineteenth-century interpretation of British history at a time when both the nature of historical writing and the  Read more...
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Feske, Victor.
From Belloc to Churchill.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996
(OCoLC)605007000
Named Person: Winston Churchill; Hilaire Belloc; Winston S Churchill; Winston Churchill, Sir; Hilaire Belloc
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Victor Feske
ISBN: 0807822957 9780807822951 0807846015 9780807846018
OCLC Number: 34283104
Description: xii, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Liberalism and historiography --
Hilaire Belloc The path not taken? --
Sidney and Beatrice Webb A new form of public history --
J.L. and Barbara Hammond A case of mistaken identity --
George Macaulay Trevelyan The insider as outsider --
Winston Churchill The last public historian --
Conclusion: Putting Humpty Dumpty together again.
Responsibility: Victor Feske.

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Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J. L. and Barbara Hammond, G. M. Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill. These writers recast the nineteenth-century interpretation of British history at a time when both the nature of historical writing and the fortunes of Liberalism had begun to change. Before 1900, amateur historians writing for a wide public readership portrayed British history as a grand story of progress achieved through constitutional development. This "Whig" interpretation had become the cornerstone of Liberal party politics. But the decline of Liberalism as a political force after the turn of the century, coupled with the rise of professional history written by academics and based on archival research, inspired change among a new generation of Liberal historians. The result was a refashioned Whig historiography, stripped of overt connections to contemporary political Liberalism, that attempted to preserve the general outlines of the traditional Whiggist narrative within the context of a broad history of consensus. This new formulation, says Feske, was more suited to the intellectual and political climate of the twentieth century. - Publisher.

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