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Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history. Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture, thought and belief are integral to the fabric of politics, high and low, foreign and domestic. They are woven into the day-to-day business of debate, policy and decision-making. This book shows how and why they have mattered so much. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Parry, it explores the cultural and intellectual influences on politics both formal and informal since the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring original interventions by some of the world's leading historians, the essays in the volume are organised around themes of central relevance to the understanding of modern British political history. They explore a wide range of subjects across political life and its intellectual and cultural hinterlands, including constitutionalism and international political thought, anticolonial activism, race and imperial commemoration, female political thinkers, parliament, monarchy and the law, the politics of religion, and patriotism and national identity. This is an agenda-setting text that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history. Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. Dr Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Contributors: Michael Bentley, John Bew, Paul Bew, David Cannadine, Matthew Cragoe, Tom Crewe, Ben Griffin, Boyd Hilton, Michael Ledger-Lomas, Joanna Lewis, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Susan D. Pennybacker, Kathryn Rix, James Thompson, Philip Williamson

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Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. John Bew is Professor of History and Foreign Policy at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Oxford, and the General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Michael Ledger-Lomas is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and the author of Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Oxford, 2022). Joanna Lewis is Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics, where she is also Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Helen McCarthy is Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Alex Middleton is Fellow in Modern British History at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Susan D. Pennybacker is the Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Kathryn Rix is the Assistant Editor of the House of Commons, 1832-1945 project at the History of Parliament. James Thompson is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Bristol PHILIP WILLIAMSON is Emeritus Professor of modern history at Durham University. Ben Griffin is Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College.

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