Michael Bentley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Bentley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Bentley |
| SIGNATURE | BENTLEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1361-1532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Longest Boundary: How the US–Canadian Border’s Line Came To Be Where It Is, 1763–1910 , by J.P.D. Dunbabin
German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945 , ed. Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. Jarausch
The Peculiarities of Cambridge History: Some Comparative Thoughts on the Historical Tripos
This study develops and expands some of the arguments of a lecture I delivered on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Cambridge’s Historical Tripos. Its central proposition – that it is meaningful to talk about ‘Cambridge History’ and to discuss its distinctiveness – remains central to this published version of the lecture, as does the idea that the Tripos has always embodied that distinctiveness as a form of social memory.…
Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry
Parliamentary History: An Oblique Glance
Because parliamentary history has entered the DNA of English and anglophone historiography, one readily forgets how unusual are its parameters and influence in wider historical writing in the West. This essay supplies a reminder that we can look sideways at that historiographical form and think about the place of parliamentary history in societies so different as those of the United States and Europe. Doing so reveals oddities in the place of par…
History After Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton and Jan Rüger
History After Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton and Jan Rüger History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton and Jan Rüger (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2018; pp. 332. £75). Michael Bentley Michael Bentley St Andrews and Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Eng…
British Historical Writing
This chapter studies British historical writing, tracing its transformations from the end of the war—when, arguably, much of the late nineteenth-century empiricist agenda was still intact, and political history continued to dominate—through signal events such as the founding of a new journal of radical historiography called Past and Present (1952), to the advent of neoconservatism in the 1980s, the puffing up and eventual bursting of the bubble o…
The Afterlife of Idealism: The Impact of New Idealism on British Historical and Political Thought, 1945–1980, by Admir Skodo
Cultural distance sometimes enables a scholar to detect environments missed by those enveloped in them. Sometimes it raises barriers to understanding by leaving an observer outside the loop of familiarity with how people work, how they conceive their world, what makes them tick. On the most optimistic reading, it will prove hard, sadly, to rescue this misguided monograph from that second category. Conceived in Fiesole and nurtured in California, …
The Age of Asa: Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945, ed. Miles Taylor
‘Better than playing Philadelphia’, said W.C. Fields when faced with the terrors of death; and in the world of the historian we often see a similar trepidation about audience and the unknowable ‘general reader’. Asa Briggs neither felt, nor approved of, the fear. He spent a long life in trying to reach ‘the layman’ who, he thought, should not have to face difficult intellectual challenges when reading their histories. He trod this path, moreover,…
Theories of World History since the Enlightenment
Theorizing about world history often remains under the blanket of a seemingly empirical narrative and that the investigation of it implies the scanning of hundreds of such narratives. It follows that its story cannot be told in a short introduction to the subject as a continuous chronology. In order to illuminate at least some of its more important twists, this article presents a series of snapshots aimed at clarifying the half-dozen major moods …
Henry Hallam Revisited
Although Henry Hallam (1777–1859) is best known for his Constitutional History of England (1827) and as a founder of ‘whig’ history, to situate him primarily as a mere critic of David Hume or as an apprentice to Thomas Babington Macaulay does him a disservice. He wrote four substantial books of which the first, his View of the state of Europe during the middle ages (1818), deserves to be seen as the most important; and his correspondence shows hi…
Adapting to Climate Change in a Way that Promotes Social Equity and Health: An Examination of South Australia’s Tackling Climate Change Strategy
Developed over a five-year period, Tackling Climate Change has six specific and two crosscutting goals aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and responding and adapting to climate change. The focus of this paper is on the specific Community goal and the cross-cutting Adaptation goal. The Australian policy cycle is used to consider the effectiveness of the development of these goals and the resultant objectives, strategies and actions. The l…
Racism, social resources and mental health for Aboriginal people living in Adelaide
Responding to racism: Insights on how racism can damage health from an urban study of Australian Aboriginal people
An investigation of the ways in which public health nutrition policy and practices can address climate change
Objective To develop a framework to guide action in the public health nutrition workforce to develop policies and practices addressing factors contributing to climate change. Design Action/consultative research. Setting Interviews – South Australia, questionnaire – Australia. Subjects Interviews – key informants ( n 6) were from various government, academic and non-government positions, invited through email. Questionnaire – participants were mem…
Methodism, Science and the Natural World: Some Tensions in the Thought of Herbert Butterfield
It is no longer a name that everyone knows. At the height of his fame as historian and broadcaster, Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) reached into homes and schools through his varied activities and established a public reputation far beyond Cambridge University, where he spent the entirety of his working life from 1923 to his retirement in 1968, and among people who knew nothing of his small and idiosyncratic college, Peterhouse, to which he had a…
The Age of Prothero: British Historiography in the Long Fin De Siècle , 1870–1920
This paper revisits two generations of highly talented and significant historians who flourished in Britain between c . 1870 and 1920. George Prothero stood high among them and he, with his brother Roland, receives a good deal of attention at the centre of the argument here. But others stood still higher: Tout, Firth, Poole, Acton, the incomparable Maitland; and the purpose of the piece is to present a portrait of the British historical professio…
History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan
Journal Article History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan Get access History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan, by Reba N. Soffer (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2009; pp. 345. £55). Michael Bentley Michael Bentley University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical …
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography
Lord Dacre's literary estate, masterfully managed by Professor Blair Worden, continues to supply evidence of Hugh Trevor-Roper's significance, despite his tendency in life to conceal it within an apparently limited œuvre. Following Jeremy Cater's edition of The Invention of Scotland (2008) and John Robertson's compilation of History and the Enlightenment (2010), Adam Sisman's biography takes one much closer to the mind of its subject and reveals …
Putting Sustainability into Healthy Cities: Reflections from a University Short Course
The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate – Edited by E.H.H. Green and D.M. Tanner
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life By Mark Francis
Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and their Circle By Gillian Sutherland
Action as History: The Historical Thought of R.G. Collingwood
David Boucher's series of ‘British Idealist Studies’ promises to revolutionise approaches to Collingwood and Oakeshott, and Stein Helgeby's Action as History provides an important addition to the collection which will repay attention from those who do not normally burden themselves with theoretical speculation. Following in the steps of Jan van der Dussen and William Dray, who between them have shown historians how rich and complex are the surviv…
Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions
SOME Oxford dons have been talking to one another and have made a book out of their conversations. It seems that brown-bag lunches between 1999 and 2001 preoccupied themselves with the concept of ‘civil society’ and its relation to British history; and the papers presented, or hares started, on these occasions are brought together here by Professor Jose Harris as a contribution to thinking about this elusive phrase and how it might be considered …
Responding to racism: Insights on how racism can damage health from an urban study of Australian Aboriginal people
Racism, social resources and mental health for Aboriginal people living in Adelaide
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography
Lord Dacre's literary estate, masterfully managed by Professor Blair Worden, continues to supply evidence of Hugh Trevor-Roper's significance, despite his tendency in life to conceal it within an apparently limited œuvre. Following Jeremy Cater's edition of The Invention of Scotland (2008) and John Robertson's compilation of History and the Enlightenment (2010), Adam Sisman's biography takes one much closer to the mind of its subject and reveals …
Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions
SOME Oxford dons have been talking to one another and have made a book out of their conversations. It seems that brown-bag lunches between 1999 and 2001 preoccupied themselves with the concept of ‘civil society’ and its relation to British history; and the papers presented, or hares started, on these occasions are brought together here by Professor Jose Harris as a contribution to thinking about this elusive phrase and how it might be considered …
Victorian Politics and the Linguistic Turn
This article subjects a variety of works on nineteenth-century politics to critical analysis, focusing on recent work in biography, popular politics, and on those works that have shown an interest in post-structuralist approaches. Mostly it examines texts produced between 1993 and about 1997 with a view to sensing an historiographical mood. Although the argument urges an open-minded reception to the linguistic turn in historical work, it brings t…
Liberal Politics and the Grey Conspiracy of 1921
The possibility of Viscount Grey's return to active political life after his resignation from the Foreign Office in 1916 is one which historians have treated with understandable scepticism. Grey's well-documented distaste for political intrigue, his love of things pastoral and aesthetic, his failing health in general and eyesight in particular and hispatent joy at being released from office in 1916 lend force to the thoughtthat he was never likel…
Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought
Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought, by Michael Freeden (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 2005; pp. 271. Pb. £12.95). Collections of an author's papers, often written over a long period, raise suspicion in the minds of publishers and occasionally some bemusement among readers puzzled by repetitious thought and an incoherent assemblage of ideas originally meant for a different audience and, against t…
Past and “Presence: Revisiting Historical Ontology
The last thirty years have brought about a fundamental revision of historical epistemology. So intense a concentration on the nature of history as a form of inquiry has diminished attention given to the thing that history inquires into: the nature of the past itself. Too readily, that entire domain has turned into a place for dreams, as Hayden White put it: a lost world only available now through the imagination of the author and subject to aesth…
Companion to Historiography
The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the c…
Herbert Butterfield and the Ethics of Historiography
the ethical issue is always with us, and it is deeply embedded in historiography... 1 At the center of this important writer's thought lies a paradox in his constant implicating of ethical norms in historical writing while simultaneously deriding all forms of moral judgment in history. This article investigates the relationship between Butterfield's ethics and his religion in order to suggest ways of resolving the paradox. It focuses on his uncon…
Democratization in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform since 1800
1University of St Andrews Democratization in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform since 1800 JohnGarrard BasingstokePalgrave 2002317Paperback£16.99
Gladstone's Heir
Journal Article Gladstone's Heir Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 901–924, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.901 Published: 01 October 1992
Liberal Politics and the Grey Conspiracy of 1921
The possibility of Viscount Grey's return to active political life after his resignation from the Foreign Office in 1916 is one which historians have treated with understandable scepticism. Grey's well-documented distaste for political intrigue, his love of things pastoral and aesthetic, his failing health in general and eyesight in particular and hispatent joy at being released from office in 1916 lend force to the thoughtthat he was never likel…
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIV, Issue CCCLXXIII, October 1979, Page 944, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIV.CCCLXXIII.944 Published: 01 October 1979
Short Notices
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXV, October 1982, Page 927, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXV.927 Published: 01 October 1982
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVIII, Issue CCCLXXXIX, October 1983, Page 938, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVIII.CCCLXXXIX.938 Published: 01 October 1983
British parliamentary institutions and political thought 1865–1914
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXC, January 1984, Pages 234-a–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXC.234-a Published: 01 January 1984
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXC, January 1984, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXC.232 Published: 01 January 1984
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXIV, January 1990, Pages 258–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXIV.258 Published: 01 January 1990
Gladstonian Liberals and Provincial Notables: Whitby Politics, 1868-80
Journal Article Gladstonian Liberals and Provincial Notables: Whitby Politics, 1868–80 Get access Michael Bentley Michael Bentley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 64, Issue 154, June 1991, Pages 172–185, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1991.tb01792.x Published: 12 October 2007
Gladstone's Heir
Journal Article Gladstone's Heir Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 901–924, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.901 Published: 01 October 1992
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 428, July 1993, Pages 778-a–778, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.428.778-a Published: 01 July 1993
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.272 Published: 01 January 1993
Liberal Toryism in the Twentieth Century
DUST has scarcely had time to settle on Lady Thatcher; yet already a thick sediment of historical significance attaches to the fifteen years of her ascendancy. The period between 1975 and 1990 looks likely to prove as significant for the political ideologies of the twenty-first century as that between, say, 1885 and 1906 currently looks for our own. In the twilight world of John Major (who appears part-antidote, part-surrogate), Conservative ideo…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 245–246, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.245 Published: 01 February 1995
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MICHAEL BENTLEY MICHAEL BENTLEY University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 1028–1029, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.1028 Published: 01 September 1995
Shorter note. Real History. Reflections in Historical Practice. Martin Bunzl
Journal Article Shorter note. Real History. Reflections in Historical Practice. Martin Bunzl Get access M Bentley M Bentley University of St Andrews, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 457, June 1999, Pages 806–807, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.457.806 Published: 01 June 1999
Shorter notice. The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914. Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. WC Lubenow
Journal Article The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914. Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. WC Lubenow Get access M Bentley M Bentley University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1354–1355, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1354 Published: 01 November 1999
Shorter notice. Acton and History. O Chadwick
Journal Article Acton and History. O Chadwick Get access M Bentley M Bentley University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1392–1393, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1392-a Published: 01 November 1999
Victorian Politics and the Linguistic Turn
This article subjects a variety of works on nineteenth-century politics to critical analysis, focusing on recent work in biography, popular politics, and on those works that have shown an interest in post-structuralist approaches. Mostly it examines texts produced between 1993 and about 1997 with a view to sensing an historiographical mood. Although the argument urges an open-minded reception to the linguistic turn in historical work, it brings t…
Shorter notice. Aristocratic Women and Political History in Victorian Britain. K D Reynolds
Journal Article Shorter notice. Aristocratic Women and Political History in Victorian Britain. K D Reynolds Get access M Bentley M Bentley University of St Andrews, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 460, February 2000, Pages 228–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.460.228-a Published: 01 February 2000
Democratization in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform since 1800
1University of St Andrews Democratization in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform since 1800 JohnGarrard BasingstokePalgrave 2002317Paperback£16.99
Herbert Butterfield and the Ethics of Historiography
the ethical issue is always with us, and it is deeply embedded in historiography... 1 At the center of this important writer's thought lies a paradox in his constant implicating of ethical norms in historical writing while simultaneously deriding all forms of moral judgment in history. This article investigates the relationship between Butterfield's ethics and his religion in order to suggest ways of resolving the paradox. It focuses on his uncon…
Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970
What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to esta…
Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought
Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought, by Michael Freeden (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 2005; pp. 271. Pb. £12.95). Collections of an author's papers, often written over a long period, raise suspicion in the minds of publishers and occasionally some bemusement among readers puzzled by repetitious thought and an incoherent assemblage of ideas originally meant for a different audience and, against t…
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