Laurence Guymer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Guymer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Guymer |
| SIGNATURE | GUYMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Winchester College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Meeting Hauteur with Tact, Imperturbability, and Resolution
This article takes a broad view of Anglo–Russian relations in the years between the Peace of Paris, 1856, and the death of Viscount Palmerston, 1865, examining the shifts within that period in an essentially high-political diplomatic history. It traces a number of strands in geopolitics, offering a sense of the competing strategies of the European Great Powers, particularly the roles of British diplomats: the private and public communication amon…
Pressing the French and defending the Palmerstonian line
This article uses the Spanish marriages episode of 1846 as a prism through which to examine the relationship between the leading foreign affairs writers for the increasingly powerful Times newspaper and the authors and servants of British diplomacy in the early Victorian period. The focus of this study is Lord William Hervey, the first secretary of the British embassy in Paris, a diplomat who well understood the power of the press over ministers,…
A Question Presenting a Host of Difficulties
This article uses Sir Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer's time as British commissioner to investigate the internal condition of the Danubian Principalities between 1856 and 1858 as a prism through which to view Britain's handling of Anglo-French relations and of the ‘Eastern Question’. It will explore the assumptions underpinning Whig policy towards France and the Ottoman empire in the immediate post-Crimean period, and examine the balance of power in Br…
The Wedding Planners
This article uses the largely neglected papers of Sir Henry Bulwer, British minister at Madrid between 1843 and 1848, as a prism through which to view the fourth Earl of Aberdeen's handling of Anglo–French relations, in general, and in Spain over the marriages of Queen Isabella and her younger sister the Infanta Luisa Fernanda, in particular, during a critical period. It highlights the fact that developments in the historiograhical context and th…
A Question Presenting a Host of Difficulties
This article uses Sir Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer's time as British commissioner to investigate the internal condition of the Danubian Principalities between 1856 and 1858 as a prism through which to view Britain's handling of Anglo-French relations and of the ‘Eastern Question’. It will explore the assumptions underpinning Whig policy towards France and the Ottoman empire in the immediate post-Crimean period, and examine the balance of power in Br…
The Wedding Planners
This article uses the largely neglected papers of Sir Henry Bulwer, British minister at Madrid between 1843 and 1848, as a prism through which to view the fourth Earl of Aberdeen's handling of Anglo–French relations, in general, and in Spain over the marriages of Queen Isabella and her younger sister the Infanta Luisa Fernanda, in particular, during a critical period. It highlights the fact that developments in the historiograhical context and th…
The Wedding Planners
This article uses the largely neglected papers of Sir Henry Bulwer, British minister at Madrid between 1843 and 1848, as a prism through which to view the fourth Earl of Aberdeen's handling of Anglo–French relations, in general, and in Spain over the marriages of Queen Isabella and her younger sister the Infanta Luisa Fernanda, in particular, during a critical period. It highlights the fact that developments in the historiograhical context and th…
A Question Presenting a Host of Difficulties
This article uses Sir Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer's time as British commissioner to investigate the internal condition of the Danubian Principalities between 1856 and 1858 as a prism through which to view Britain's handling of Anglo-French relations and of the ‘Eastern Question’. It will explore the assumptions underpinning Whig policy towards France and the Ottoman empire in the immediate post-Crimean period, and examine the balance of power in Br…
Pressing the French and defending the Palmerstonian line
This article uses the Spanish marriages episode of 1846 as a prism through which to examine the relationship between the leading foreign affairs writers for the increasingly powerful Times newspaper and the authors and servants of British diplomacy in the early Victorian period. The focus of this study is Lord William Hervey, the first secretary of the British embassy in Paris, a diplomat who well understood the power of the press over ministers,…
Meeting Hauteur with Tact, Imperturbability, and Resolution
This article takes a broad view of Anglo–Russian relations in the years between the Peace of Paris, 1856, and the death of Viscount Palmerston, 1865, examining the shifts within that period in an essentially high-political diplomatic history. It traces a number of strands in geopolitics, offering a sense of the competing strategies of the European Great Powers, particularly the roles of British diplomats: the private and public communication amon…
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