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PRIMARY TEXTS
Magna Carta (1215)
Beggars Act (1531)
Act of Supremacy (1534)
Act of Six Articles (1539)
Poor Relief Act (1598)
Petition of Right (1628)
Declaration of Indulgence (1687)
Bill of Rights (1689)
Act of Union (1707/1800)
Roman Catholic Emancipation (1829)
Chartist Program (1839)
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867)
Balfour, Balfour Report: From Empire to Commonwealth (1926)
Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principle of Morals and Legislation
(1780)
Alfred Beveridge, The Beveridge Report (1942)
Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Chadwick, Sanitation
Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species (1859)
John Foxe, Book of Martyrs
Richard Hakluyt, Divers Voyages
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
David Hume, Inquire into Human Understanding (1748)
JM Keynes, The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government (1690)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Education (1835)
Thomas Malthus, Essay on the Principles of Population (1798)
JS Mill, On Liberty (1859)
JS Mill, On Utilitarianism
Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)
Isaac Newton, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
George Orwell, Orwell Reader
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
Thomas Paine, Age of Reason
David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Romantics: Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Blake
Sadler, Sadler Committee Report (1832)
Samuel Smiles, Self Help (1839)
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
WW I Poets: Owen and SassoonSURVEYS
"55 B.C. and All That: Teaching the British History Survey," British Studies
Intelligencer 9 (Spring 1994):11-12.
WL Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and Today, 6th ed. (1992)
Asa Briggs, A Social History of England: from the Ice Age to the Chunnel.
Norman Gash, Aristocracy and the People
Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: 1727-1783 (1989)
Kenneth Morgan, Britain in the Twentieth Century
JH Plumb, England in the 18th Century
Glyn Williams and John Ramsden, Ruling Britannia: a Political History of
Britain, 1688-1988 (1990)
RK Webb, Modern England
William B. Willcox and Walter Arnstein, The Age of Aristocracy, 6th edition.
(1992)
Longman Foundations SeriesIRISH HISTORY
JR Archer, "The Unionist Tradition in Ireland" Eire-Ireland 15/2 (1980) pp.
47-59
Thomas Bartlett, "The Rise and Fall of the Protestant Nation" Eire-Ireland
26/2 (1991) p. 7-18
Thomas Bartlett, "Select Documents 38: Defenders and Defenderism" Irish
Historical Studies 24/5 (May 1985) p. 373-394
JC Beckett, The Making of Modern Ireland (1981)Paul Bew, Ideology and the
Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism
Karl Bottigheimer, Ireland and the Irish: A Short History (1982)
DG Boyce, Nineteenth Century Ireland: the Search for Stability (1990)
Ciaran Brady, The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform
Government in Tudor Ireland (1994)
Samuel Clark, ed. Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest
SJ Connolly, Religion, Law and Power: the making of Protestant Ireland,
1660-1760 (1992)
Nancy Jane Curtin "The Transformation of the Revolutionary Organisation"
Irish Historical Studies 24, no 96 (Nov. 1985). pp. 463-492.
Mary Daly "Women in the Irish Free State" Journal of Women's History 6/4
(1995) pp. 101-135.
S. Ellis and S. Barber (eds), Conquest and Union. Fashioning a British
State,1485-1725 (1995)
R. Fanning, Independent Ireland (1983)
David Fitzpatrick, Politics and Irish Life 1913-1921: Provincial Experience of War and Revolution (1977)
Thomas E. Hachey, Joseph M. Hernon, and Lawrence J. McCaffrey, The Irish Experience (1996)
DW Harkness, Northern Ireland since 1920 (1983)
Peter Hart, The I.r.a. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork,
1916-1923 (1998)
KT Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland
Emmet Larkin "Devotional Revolution"
J. Lee, Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society (1989)
C. Lennon, Sixteenth-Century Ireland. The Incomplete Conquest (1994)
FSL Lyons, Ireland since the Famine (1973)
D. McCartney, The Dawning of Democracy; Ireland, 1800-1870 (1987)
AD MacIntyre, The Liberator: Life of Daniel O'Connell
R. Mitchison, Lordship to Patronage: Scotland, 1603-1745 (1983)
TW Moody, The Course of Irish History (1984)
Ronald Munck "The Making of Troubles in Northern Ireland" Journal of
Contemporary History 27 (1992) pp. 211-229.
Padraig O'Malley, Biting at the Grave
CHE Philphin, Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland
AGR Smith, The Emergence of a Nation State: the Commonwealth of
England, 1529-1660 (1984)
Kevin Toolis, Rebel Hearts
P. Travers, Settlements and Divisions; Ireland, 1870-1922 (1988)
Kevin Whelan on "'98 After '98" (good historiography)
Martin Williams, "Ancient Mythology and Revolutionary Ideology in Ireland"
The Historical Journal 26/2 (1983) pp. 307-328.
Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Famine (1962)POLITICAL HISTORY
WO Aydelotte, articles on party formation
EC Black, The Association
Lord Blake, The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher
Lord Blake, Disraeli
John Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (1976)
Asa Briggs, Chartist Studies
Michael Brock, The Great Reform Act (1972)
John Brooke, King George III
Lord Butler, The Conservative Party: Origins to 1970
Herbert Butterfield, George III and the Historians
John Cannon, Parliamentary Reform, 1640-1832
IR Christie, Wilkes, Wyvill, and Reform (1962)
JCD Clark, Revolution and Rebellion
JCD Clark, English Society: 1688-1832
JCD Clark, Languages of Liberty
Peter Clarke, "Mrs. Thatcher's Leadership" Parliamentary Affairs 45/1 (Jan
1992) pp.1-9
David Close, articles on party formation
Robert Colls and Philip Dodd, Englishness: Culture and Politics
Linda Colley, "The Apotheosis of George III" Past and Present 104 (1984)
pp. 94-129
JB Conacher, The Peelites and the Party System, 1846-1852
JB Conacher, The Aberdeen Coalition
JE Cookson, Lord Liverpool's Administration
Maurice Cowling, 1867. Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution
TL Crosby, Sir Robert Peel's Administration
RW Davis, Disraeli
RW Davis, Lords of Parliament
RW Davis, Political Change and Continuity: A Buckinghamshire Study
RW Davis, Dissent in Politics: The Political Life of William Smith
James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson, The Chartist Experience (1982)
Nigel Fisher, The Tory Leaders
Norman Gash, Reaction and Reconstruction in English Politics, 1832-1852
Norman Gash, Politics in the Age of Peel
Norman Gash, Pillars of Government
Norman Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel
Norman Gash, Sir Robert Peel
Norman Gash, Lord Liverpool
Philip Harling, Old Corruption
HJ Hanman, Elections and Party Management in the Time of Disraeli and
Gladstone
DA Hamer, Liberal Politics in the Age of Gladstone and Rosebury
BW Hill, British Parliamentary Parties, 1742-1832
Boyd Hilton, Corn, Cash, and Commerce
Boyd Hilton, "Peel: A Reappraisal" Historical Journal, 1979
Boyd Hilton, "Lord Liverpool: The Art of Politics and the Practice of Government," TRHS, 1988
LT Hobhouse, Liberalism and Other Writings
Alistair Horne, Harold Macmillan (2 vols)
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone
Gareth Steadman Jones, "Rethinking Chartism"
Mary Langan and Bill Schwarz, Crises in the British State
Elizabth Longford, Wellington: Pillar of the State
GIT Machin, Politics and Churches in Great Britain
AD MacIntyre, "The Protectionists" TRHS
Philip Magnus, Gladstone
Peter Mandler, Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform
Joseph Marsh, Chamberlain
HCG Matthew, Gladstone (2 volumes)
Austin Mitchell, The Whigs in Opposition
Leslie Mitchell, Charles James Fox
DC Moore, Politics of Deference
Kenneth Morgan, Labour in Power, 1945-1951
John Morley, Life of Gladstone
Lewis Namier, Structure and Politics at the Accession of George III
Lewis Namier, British Politics in the Age of the American Revolution
Ian Newbould, Whiggery and Reform, 1830-1841
Fred O'Gourman, Voters and Patrons
Richard Pares, George III and the Politicians
JP Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain
JP Parry, Democracy and Religion
Henry Pelling, Short History of the Labor Party
John Phillips, The Great Reform Bill in the Boroughs
John Phillips, Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England
JH Plumb, Sir Robert Walpole, 2 vols (1956-1960)
JH Plumb, The First Four Georges
John Prest, Politics in the Age of Cobden
John Prest, Lord John Russell
Kenneth Rose, Superior Person: The Life of Lord Curzon
M. Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 (1993)
Raphael Samuel, Patriotism: The Make and Unmaking of British National
Identity vol 3
Anthony Seldon, The Conservative Century
Peter Hennessy & Anthony Seldon, Ruling Performance: British
Governments from Attlee to Thatcher (1987)
Richard Shannon, The Bulgarian Atrocities
Paul Smith, Disraelian Conservatism and Social Reform
ED Steele, Palmerston and Liberalism
RM Stewart, Foundations of the Conservative Party
Donald Southgate, The Passing of the Whigs
Anthony Taylor, "Reynold's Newspaper, Opposition to Monarchy and the Radical Anti-Jubilee" Historical
Research 1995 pp. 318-337
EP Thompson, "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century," Past and Present (1971), pp. 76-136.
EP Thompson, "Patrician Society, Plebian Culture," Journal of Social History (1974), pp. 382- 405.
Dorothy Thompson, The Chartists
FML Thompson, "Whigs and Liberals in West Riding," HJ
John Vincent, The Formation of the Liberal Party
James Vernon, Politics and People
PJ Waller, Politics and Social Change in Modern BritainRELIGION
Walter Arnstein, Protestant versus Catholic in Midvictorian England
GFA Best, Temporal Pillars
GFA Best, "The Whigs and the Church Establishment"
GFA Best, " The Protestant Constitution and its Supporters"
Richard Brent, Liberal Anglican Politics
Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church
Owen Chadwick, The Mind of the Oxford Movement
Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th
Century
HW Clark, A History of English Nonconformity, vols 1 and 2
RW Davis, "Strategies of Dissent in the Repeal Campaign"
RW Davis, "Toryism and Tamworth"
RW Davis and RJ Helmstadter, Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society
Elie Halevy: England in 1815
David Hempton, Methodism and Politics in British Society
David Hempton, Religion of the People
Ursula Henriques, The Growth of Religious Toleration in England
Boyd Hilton, The Age of Atonement
Robert Hole, Pulpits and Politics
GIT Machin, The Catholic Question in English Politics
GIT Machin, Politics and the Churches of Great Britain
BL Manning, The Protestant Dissenting Deputies
David Newsome, The Wilberforces and Henry Manning: The Parting of
Friends
Raphael Samuel, Disciplines of Faith: Studies in Religion, Politics, and
Patriarchy
Norman Sykes, Church and State in the Eighteenth Century (1934)
WR Ward, Religion and Society in England
MR Watts, The Dissenters, vol 1 and 2
English Dissenters BibliographyGENDER/SOCIETY/CULTURE/ECONOMY
Asa Briggs, Victorian People
Asa Briggs, Victorian Cities
Ford K. Brown, Fathers of the Victorians
David Cannadine, Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
David Cannadine, Aspects of Aristocracy
JD Chambers and GE Mingay, The Agricultural Revolution (1966)
SG Checkland, The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1855 (1964)
SG Checkland, British Public Policy, 1776-1939 (1983)
Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches
George Kitson Clark, The Making of Victorian England
Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of
the English Middle Class (1987)
Seamus Deane, The Enlightenment and the French Revolution in England
Phyllis Dean and WA Cole, British Economic Growth, 1688-1959 (1964)
Roderick Floudand Donald McCloskey, Economic History of Britain (1981)
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, The Long Weekend
HJ Habakkuk, Population Growth (1970)
Brian Harrison, Drink and the Victorians
Douglas Hay et al., Albion's Fatal Tree
TW Heyck, Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England
Eric Hobsbawn and George Rude, Captain Swing
Eric Hobsbawn, Labouring Men
Eric Hobsbawn, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
Sandra Holton, Feminism and Democracy
Sandra Stanley Holton, Suffrage Days
Walter Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind
AR Humphreys, The Augustan World (1964)
Samuel Hynes, The Edwardian Turn of Mind
Richard Jenkyns, The Victorians in Ancient Greece
Gareth Stedman Jones, Outcast London
Susan Kent, "The Politics of Sexual Difference" Journal of British Studies 27
(1988) p. 232-253
Neville Kirk, "In Defense of Class" International Review of Social History 32
(1987) 2-47
David Landes, Unbound Prometheus (1969)
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost (1965)
Steve Marcus, The Other Victorians
Peter Mathias, First Industrial Nation (1969)
Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality
Trevor May, Economic and Social History of Britain
Ross McKibben, Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain, 1880-1950
Ross McKibben, "Why was there no Marxism in Britain?" EHR
James R. Moore, The Post-Darwinian Controversies
Geoffrey Oxley, Poor Relief in England and Wales; 1601-1834
Susan Pederson "Gender, Warfare and Citizenship in Britain" AHR 95/4
(1990) pp. 383-1005
Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society
Roy Porter, Myths of the English
Martin Pugh "Politicians and the Women's Vote" History 59 (1974) pp.
358-374
David Roberts, Victorian Origins of the British Welfare State
Ellen Ross, Love and Toil
Raphael Samuel, "Workshop of the World," EHR
Elaine Showalter, A Literature of their Own (1982)
Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Culture in
England, 1830-1980 (1985)
Reba Soffer, Discipline and Power: The University, History, and the Making
of an English Elite
David Spring, The English Landed Estate in the Nineteenth Century: Its
Administration
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians
Lawrence Stone, Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (1977)
MI Thomis, The Luddites
EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
Dorothy Thompson, Queen Victoria: Gender and Power
FML Thompson, English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century
Frank Turner, The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain
Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the
State (1980)
Judith Walkotwitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in
Late-victorian London (1992)
RK Webb, The British Working Class Reader
Kirk Willis, "The Critical Reception of Hegleiamism in Britain," and "The
Critical Reception of Marxism in Britain," HJ
EA Wrigley and RS Schofield, The Population History of England,
1541-1871 (1981)
GM Young, Victorian England: Portrait of the AgeTUDORS and STUARTS
Maurice Ashley, Charles II: the man and the statesman (1971)
A. Bryson, From Courtesy to Civility, Changing Codes of Conduct in Early
Modern England (1998)
P. Carter, Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660 - 1800
(2001)
John Coffey, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England
Thomas Corns, ed. The Royal Image: Representations of Charles (1999)
David Cressy, Birth, Marriage & Death: Ritual, Religion & the Life-cycle in
Tudor & Stuart England (1999)
David Cressy, Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart
England (2000)
DM Dean and NL Jones, eds, The Parliaments of Elizabethan England
AG Dickens, The English Reformation
L. S. Dixon, Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art
and Medicine (1995)
L. Gowing, Domestic Dangers, women, words and sex in Early Modern
London (1998)
Michael A.R. Graves, Burghley: William Cecil, Lord Burghley
Tim Harris, Politics under the later Stuarts: party conflict in a divided
society, 1660-1715
G Holmes, Making of a Great Power: late Stuart and early Georgian
Britain, 1660-1722 (1993)
Christopher Haigh, Elizabeth I
Christopher Haigh, English Reformations
Christopher Haigh, Reformation and Reistance in Tudor Lancashire (1975) Christopher Hibbert, Roundheads and Cavaliers
Christopher Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down
Derek Hirst, England in Conflict: 1603-1660
Derek Hirst, The Representative of the People?
T. Hitchcock, English Sexualities, 1700 – 1800 (1997)
R. Houlbrooke, Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480 - 1750
(2000)
Ronald Hutton, Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and
Ireland (1989)
Ronald Hutton, The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646
EW Ives, Anne Boleyn
Norman Jones, Faith by Statute
Paul Johnson, Elizabeth I
Mark Kishlansky, Parliamentary Selection
JP Kenyon, Stuart England (1978)
Anne Laurence, Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History
Stanford Lehmberg, The Reformation of the Cathedrals
Carole Levin, Heart and Stomach of a King
Karen Lindsey, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
Garrett Mattingly, The Armada
Garrett Mattingly, Catherine of Aragon
Wallace MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I
John Miller, Charles II (1991)
John Neale, Queen Elizabeth I
David Ogg, England in the Reigns of James II and William III (1955)
D. O'Hara, Courtship and Constraint: rethinking the making of marriage in
Tudor England (2000)
Kenneth Pickthorn, Early Tudor Government: Henry VII
Conrad Russell, Parliaments and English Politics 1621-1629
Kevin Sharpe, The Personal Rule of Charles I
Paul Seaver, Wallington's World
Alan Smith,The Emergence of a Nation State
Lacey Baldwin Smith, The Mask of Royalty
Margaret Spufford, Contrasting Communities
Lawrence Stone, The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642
Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy
Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage
Margo Todd, ed, From Reformation to Revolution
David Underdown, Fire from Heaven
Retha Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn
CV Wedgwood, Oliver Cromwell
Alison Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Robert Whiting, The Blind Devotion of the People
Susan E. Whyman, Sociability and Power in Late Stuart England (2000)
Neville Williams, Henry VIII and his Court
Jenny Wormwald, Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure
Sixteenth-Century Reading List
John Guy's Annotated Reading ListEIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES/VICTORIANS
Geoffrey Best, Mid-Victorian Britain
Christine Bolt, Victorian Attitudes to Race
Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness
Philip A. Brown, The French Revolution in History
WL Burn, Age of Equipoise
Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
IR Christie, Wars and Revolutions, Britain, 1760-1815 (1982)
EJ Evans, The Forging of the Modern State, Britain, 1783-1870 (1983)
Peter Fryer, Staying Power
Douglas Lorimer, Colour, Class and the Victorians
Rohan McWilliam, Popular Politics in 19th c. England
Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
Cecil Woodham-Smih, Victoria
FML Thompson, The Rise of Respectable Society (1988)
Vron Ware, Beyond the PaleEDWARDIAN BRITAIN
Hilaire Belloc, The Servile State
George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England
EHH Green, The Crisis of Conservatism
Jose Harris, Private Lives, Public Spirit
Samuel Hynes, The Edwardian Turn of Mind
Philip Magnus, Edward VIII
G. Searle, The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration
Paul Thompson, The Edwardians: The Remaking of British Society (1992)
EMPIRE
Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Is the Post in Postmodern the Same as the Post in Post-Structuralist?" (1990)
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
CA Bayly, Imperial Meridian : the British Empire and the World, 1780-1830 (1989)
Kenneth Bourne, Foreign Policy of Victorian England (1970)
PJ Cain and AG Hopkins, British Imperialism (1993)
Muriel Chamberlain, Pax Britannia?British Foreign Policy, 1789-1914
Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, Western Women and Imperialism:
Complicity and Resistance
Annie E. Coombes, Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and
Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Byron Farwell, Queen Victoria's Little Wars (1973)
David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed (1982)
Ronald Robinson and John Gallagher, Africa and the Victorians (1961)
John Gallagher, The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire
Stephen Greenblatt, "The Improvisation of Power" (1980)
Catherine Hall "Rethinking Imperial Histories" New Left Review 208 (1994)
pp. 3-29
Freda Harcourt "Disraeli's Imperialism" The Historical Journal 23/1 (1980)
pp. 87-109
JA Hobson, Imperialism: A Study
AG Hopkins, "The Victorians in Africa" Journal of African History 27 (1986)
pp. 363-391
Fredric Jameson, "Romance and Reification" (1981)
Paul Kennedy, The Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism
John M. Mackenzie, Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of british
Public Opinion, 1880-1960
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather
Bernard Porter, The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism,
1850-1983
Paul Rich, Race and Empire in British Politics
Renato Rosaldo, "Imperialist Nostalgia" (1989)
Jonathan Schneer, London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis
Margaret Strobel, European Women and the Second Empire
Cecil Woodham Smith, The Reason Why (1954)20TH-CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY
John Baxendale, Narrating the Thirties
Brivatti and Jones, What Difference Did the War Make?
Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory
Stephen Constantine, et al. (eds.), The First World War in British History (1995)
Michael Dintenfass, The Decline of Industrial Britain, 1870-1980 (1992)
Jim Fyrth, Labour's Promised Land
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
Sean Greenwood, Britain and European Cooperation since 1945 (1992)
Alfred F. Havighurst, Britain in Transition: The Twentieth Century. 4th ed. (1985)
John Irwin, Modern Britain
PM Kennedy, The Realities behind Diplomacy, background influences on British external policy, 1865-1980
(1980)
Trevor Marwick, The Deluge
Kenneth O. Morgan, The People's Peace: British History, 1945-1989 (1991)
Charles Mowat, Britain between the Wars
Kathleen Paul, Whitewashing Britain
M. Pugh, State and Society, British political and social history, 1870-1992 (1994)
D. Reynolds, Britannia Overruled, British policy and world power in the twentieth century (1991)
K. Robbins, The Eclipse of a Great Power; Modern Britain, 1870-1975 (1983)
John Stevenson, Britain in Depression
Andrew Thorpe, Britain in the 1930s: The Deceptive Decade (1992)
Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980 (1981)
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