Michael Bentley (historian)
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Michael Bentley is an English historian of British politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Boyd Hilton
has called Bentley's Politics without Democracy 1815-1914 "a wonderfully ‘inside’ account of life at the top", whilst K. Theodore Hoppen claims the book "provides an interesting (if allusive) study of attitudes".
Boyd Hilton
Boyd Hilton is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.Hilton was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974...
has called Bentley's Politics without Democracy 1815-1914 "a wonderfully ‘inside’ account of life at the top", whilst K. Theodore Hoppen claims the book "provides an interesting (if allusive) study of attitudes".
Works
- The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 (1977).
- Politics without Democracy, 1815-1914 (1984, 1996).
- The Climax of Liberal Politics (1987).
- Companion to Historiography (1997).
- Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1998).
- Lord Salisbury's World (2001).
- Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (The Wiles Lectures) (2006).
- The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God (2011).