From Belloc to Churchill: Private Scholars, Public Culture, and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939Linking 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. Trevelya |
Contents
Liberalism and Historiography | 1 |
HILAIRE BELLOC The Path Not Taken? | 15 |
SIDNEY BEATRICE WEBB A New Form of Public History | 61 |
JL BARBARA HAMMOND A Case of Mistaken Identity | 98 |
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN The Insider as Outsider | 137 |
WINSTON CHURCHILL The Last Public Historian | 186 |
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