Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History

Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History

Author: Deborah Wormell

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1980-03-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780521227209

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Sir John Seeley is best known for his remark that the empire was acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness.


Democracy and Religion

Democracy and Religion

Author: J. P. Parry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-03-02

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780521367837

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An account of how the various religious and educational issues tackled by politicians led to the fall of Gladstone's first liberal party government in 1874 and to an identity crisis for British Liberalism.