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From Belloc to Churchill - Private Scholars, Public Culture, and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 (Paperback, New edition)
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From Belloc to Churchill - Private Scholars, Public Culture, and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 (Paperback, New edition)
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Linking 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.
Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill. These writers recast the
nineteenth-century interpretation of British history at a time when
both the nature of historical writing and the fortunes of
Liberalism had begun to change. Before 1900, amateur historians
writing for a wide public readership portrayed British history as a
grand story of progress achieved through constitutional
development. This 'Whig' interpretation had become the cornerstone
of Liberal party politics. But the decline of Liberalism as a
political force after the turn of the century, coupled with the
rise of professional history written by academics and based on
archival research, inspired change among a new generation of
Liberal historians. The result was a refashioned Whig
historiography, stripped of overt connections to contemporary
political Liberalism, that attempted to preserve the general
outlines of the traditional Whiggist narrative within the context
of a broad history of consensus. This new formulation, says Feske,
was more suited to the intellectual and political climate of the
twentieth century.
Originally published in 1996.
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