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The Diaries Of Edward Henry Stanley 15th Earl Of Derby 1826 93 Between 1878 And 1893
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Book Synopsis The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-93) Between 1878 and 1893 by : Edward Henry Stanley Earl of Derby
Download or read book The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-93) Between 1878 and 1893 written by Edward Henry Stanley Earl of Derby and published by None. This book was released on 2003 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Henry Stanley (1826-93) was a prominent British politician and a major landowner. His diaries record the minutiae of the life of a great Victorian nobleman as faithfully as the momentous arguments in Gladstone's cabinet.
Book Synopsis The Political Diaries of the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon, 1857-1890: Volume 35 by : Peter Gordon
Download or read book The Political Diaries of the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon, 1857-1890: Volume 35 written by Peter Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the diaries of Henry Herbert Molyneux, fourth Earl of Carnarvon, this book sheds new light on Conservative politics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Few political diaries of this scale and significance have survived and they reveal him to be a shrewd observer of events.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Patriotism by : Jonathan Parry
Download or read book The Politics of Patriotism written by Jonathan Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parry offers an analysis of the ideas that influenced the Liberal political coalition between the 1830s and 1880s.
Book Synopsis Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part I, Volume 2 by : Nancy LoPatin-Lummis
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part I, Volume 2 written by Nancy LoPatin-Lummis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to bring alive, through the eyes of their contemporaries, three of the greatest political figures of the Victorian era - Henry, third Viscount Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. This four-volume set draws together various documents including journals and diaries, pamphlets, correspondence, and other ephemeral literature. Volume 2 covers the political life of Benjamin Disraeli (Part I).
Book Synopsis Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part I by : Michael Partridge
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part I written by Michael Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 1888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to bring alive, through the eyes of their contemporaries, three of the greatest political figures of the Victorian era - Henry, third Viscount Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. This four-volume set draws together various documents including journals and diaries, pamphlets, correspondence, and other ephemeral literature.
Book Synopsis Inheritance by : Robert Sackville-West
Download or read book Inheritance written by Robert Sackville-West and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives, and images, the current incumbent of the seat, Robert Sackville-West, paints a vivid and intimate portrait of the vast, labyrinthine house and the close relationships his colorful ancestors formed within it. Inheritance is the story of a house and its inhabitants, a family described by Vita Sackville-West as "a race too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy; a rotten lot, and nearly all starkstaring mad." Where some reveled in the hedonism of aristocratic life, others rebelled against a house that, in time, would disinherit them, shutting its doors to them forever. It's a drama in which the house itself is a principal character, its fortunes often mirroring those of the family. Every detail holds a story: the portraits, and all the items the subjects of those portraits left behind, point to pivotal moments in history; all the rooms, and the objects that fill them, are freighted with an emotional significance that has been handed down from generation to generation. Now owned by the National Trust, Knole is today one of the largest houses in England, visited by thousands annually and housing one of the country's finest collections of secondhand Royal furniture. It's a pleasure to follow Robert Sackville-West as he unravels the private life of a public place on a fascinating, masterful, four-hundred-year tour through the memories and memorabilia, political, financial, and domestic, of his extraordinary family.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain by : Ben Griffin
Download or read book The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain written by Ben Griffin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking history challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights.
Book Synopsis Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 by : Geoffrey Hicks
Download or read book Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920 written by Geoffrey Hicks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Derbys of Knowsley Hall have been neglected by historians to an astonishing degree. In domestic political terms, the legacies of Disraeli and his Conservative successors have long obscured their Lancastrian aristocratic predecessors. As far as foreign policy is concerned, twentieth century politics and scholarship have often suggested crude polarities: for example, the idea of 'appeasement' versus Churchillian belligerence has its nineteenth century equivalent in Aberdeen's apparent rivalry with Palmerston. The subtleties of other views, such as those represented by the Derbys, have either been overlooked or misunderstood. In addition, the fact that much crucial archival and editorial work has only been carried out in the last two decades has had a significant impact. Examining a range of topics in domestic and foreign policy, this collection brings a fresh approach to the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through a series of innovative essays. It will appeal to those with an interest in the decline of the aristocracy, Victorian high politics and the politics of the regions, as well as the Conservative tradition in foreign policy.
Book Synopsis British History 1815-1914 by : Norman McCord
Download or read book British History 1815-1914 written by Norman McCord and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated new edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.
Book Synopsis Harcourt and Son by : Patrick Jackson
Download or read book Harcourt and Son written by Patrick Jackson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of the book reflects the fact that throughout his ministerial career, as home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer under Gladstone, Harcourt was supported by his son Lewis ("Loulou"), who acted as private secretary and confidential advisor, and whose unpublished journals were one of the main sources for the book. The author also made extensive use of other contemporary diaries (particularly those of John Morley, only recently made accessible) and thousands of manuscript letters to and from Harcourt."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1854-1946 by : Keith Neilson
Download or read book The Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1854-1946 written by Keith Neilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief among the personnel at the Foreign Office is the Permanent Under-secretary, the senior civil servant who oversees the department and advises the Foreign Secretary. This book is a study of the twelve men who held this Office from 1854–1946.
Book Synopsis Queen Victoria by : Michael Ledger-Lomas
Download or read book Queen Victoria written by Michael Ledger-Lomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Spiritual Lives series features biographies of prominent men and women whose eminence is not primarily based on a specifically religious contribution. Each volume provides a general account of the figure's life and thought, while giving special attention to his or her religious contexts, convictions, doubts, objections, ideas, and actions. Many leading politicians, writers, musicians, philosophers, and scientists have engaged deeply with religion in significant and resonant ways that have often been overlooked or underexplored. Some of the volumes will even focus on men and women who were lifelong unbelievers, attending to how they navigated and resisted religious questions, assumptions, and settings. The books in this series will therefore recast important figures in fresh and thought-provoking ways"--
Book Synopsis Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times by : N. C. Fleming
Download or read book Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times written by N. C. Fleming and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both during his lifetime and ever since. His controversial and provocative role in Irish and British affairs had him vilified as a murderer in The Times, and afterwards dramatically vindicated by the Westminster Parliament. It cast him as a romantic hero to the young James Joyce, and a self-serving opportunist to the journalists of the Nation. Parnell has been the subject of court cases, parliamentary enquiries and debates, journalism, plays, poems, literary analysis and historical studies. For the first time all these have been collected, catalogued and cross-referenced in one volume, an invaluable resource for scholars of late nineteenth century Ireland and Britain. Divided into fifteen chapters, including a biographical sketch, the volume contains information on manuscript and archival collections, printed primary sources, Parnell's writing, Parnell's speeches in the House of Commons and outside Parliament, contemporary journalism, contemporary writing, and contemporary illustrations on Irish affairs, and a substantial list of scholarly work, including biographies, books, articles, chapters, and theses. This volume offers readers a clear record of the substantial material already available on Parnell, and in doing so offers resources to future research in this area.
Book Synopsis Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 by : Geoff Hicks
Download or read book Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878 written by Geoff Hicks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edited collection of primary, documentary material pertaining to Conservative governments' foreign policy between 1852 and 1878.
Book Synopsis Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain by : Janice Carlisle
Download or read book Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain written by Janice Carlisle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative exploration of Victorian art and politics that examines how paintings and newspaper illustrations visualized franchise reform.
Download or read book The Heir Apparent written by Jane Ridley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBE This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen. Granted unprecedented access to the royal archives, noted scholar Jane Ridley draws on numerous primary sources to paint a vivid portrait of the man and the age to which he gave his name. Born Prince Albert Edward, and known to familiars as “Bertie,” the future King Edward VII had a well-earned reputation for debauchery. A notorious gambler, glutton, and womanizer, he preferred the company of wastrels and courtesans to the dreary life of the Victorian court. His own mother considered him a lazy halfwit, temperamentally unfit to succeed her. When he ascended to the throne in 1901, at age fifty-nine, expectations were low. Yet by the time he died nine years later, he had proven himself a deft diplomat, hardworking head of state, and the architect of Britain’s modern constitutional monarchy. Jane Ridley’s colorful biography rescues the man once derided as “Edward the Caresser” from the clutches of his historical detractors. Excerpts from letters and diaries shed new light on Bertie’s long power struggle with Queen Victoria, illuminating one of the most emotionally fraught mother-son relationships in history. Considerable attention is paid to King Edward’s campaign of personal diplomacy abroad and his valiant efforts to reform the political system at home. Separating truth from legend, Ridley also explores Bertie’s relationships with the women in his life. Their ranks comprised his wife, the stunning Danish princess Alexandra, along with some of the great beauties of the era: the actress Lillie Langtry, longtime “royal mistress” Alice Keppel (the great-grandmother of Camilla Parker Bowles), and Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston. Edward VII waited nearly six decades for his chance to rule, then did so with considerable panache and aplomb. A magnificent life of an unexpectedly impressive king, The Heir Apparent documents the remarkable transformation of a man—and a monarchy—at the dawn of a new century. Praise for The Heir Apparent “If [The Heir Apparent] isn’t the definitive life story of this fascinating figure of British history, then nothing ever will be.”—The Christian Science Monitor “The Heir Apparent is smart, it’s fascinating, it’s sometimes funny, it’s well-documented and it reads like a novel, with Bertie so vivid he nearly leaps from the page, cigars and all.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “I closed The Heir Apparent with admiration and a kind of wry exhilaration.”—The Wall Street Journal “Ridley is a serious scholar and historian, who keeps Bertie’s flaws and virtues in a fine balance.”—The Boston Globe “Brilliantly entertaining . . . a landmark royal biography.”—The Sunday Telegraph “Superb.”—The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present by : Andrzej Olechnowicz
Download or read book The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present written by Andrzej Olechnowicz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has been the function of monarchy in the political and social life of Britain?
