Miles Taylor

Biographic Data

ID3766249
NAMEMiles Taylor
GIVEN NAMESMiles
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR M
AFFILIATIONSHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
ORCID0000-0001-7286-878X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS137
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India

    Miles Taylor, Tanuja KothiyalBOOKSalt, Protest and Public Health…2026

  • Introduction

    Tanuja Kothiyal, Miles TaylorCHAPTERSalt, Protest and Public Health…2026

    Salt played a vital role in social, political, economic and cultural life in South Asia. This special issue brings together multiple perspectives on salt, highlighting its place in shaping state policies as well as popular responses in modern India. The present article introduces these perspectives in conversation with existing literature on salt. It attempts to view myriad ways in which colonialism manifested itself and was experienced through t…

  • Our NHS ’ not just Labour's

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2026

  • Dreamworlds of Race

    Miles TaylorARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2025

  • Intelligible government’

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2024Cited by: 1References: 33

    At the beginning of a new reign it seems appropriate to re-assess the meaning of monarchy in modern Britain. The new King heads a fractured royal family, a divided nation, and a disaffected Commonwealth. How can we as scholars make sense of where the monarchy has been, and where it might be going? This article suggests a new scholarly approach is required. Through a critical analysis of three classic studies of monarchy: Walter Bagehot's The Engl…

  • Reform and its Complexities in Modern Britain

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEThe English Historical Review2024

  • Productive Aging Lifestyles

    Open AccessDawn Carr, Ben Lennox Kail et al.ARTICLEResearch on Aging2023

    Frank Caro and colleagues’ foundational work set the stage for a broad and multifaceted productive aging (PA) literature. Recent PA research has focused on health benefits associated with work and volunteering, respectively. However, these activities are often assumed to have independent associations with health and wellbeing. Less clear is whether and in what ways older adults participate in productive engagement lifestyles including multiple ac…

  • Salt and the National Imaginary

    Open AccessElisa deCourcy, Miles TaylorARTICLESouth Asia Journal of South Asian…2023

    This article looks at how Gandhi used the Dandi Salt Satyagraha as a site for imagining anti-colonial nationalism. We focus on the visual dimensions of the Salt March and the divergent ways in which it was reported in the illustrated press in 1930. Developing Sumathi Ramaswamy’s idea of the ‘ambulatory aesthetic’ (2020), we highlight how Gandhi created a personified protest. Moreover, he chose salt as a talismanic object, ubiquitous both temporal…

  • The Ungrudging Indian

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLESouth Asia Journal of South Asian…2023Cited by: 1

    This article investigates the long background to Mohandas K. Gandhi's choice of salt as a symbol of protest against British colonial rule. Arguably the largest of all the colonial monopolies in India, the salt tax had the smallest effect on the lives of Indians when compared with other forms of deprivation and inequality. How was the salt monopoly different from other kinds of extractive colonialism? Why did salt never become part of the lexicon …

  • The BBC

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2023

    The BBC: A People's History, by David Hendy. Profile Books. 656 pp. £25 This is the BBC. Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain? 1922–2022, by Simon J. Potter. Oxford University Press. 320 pp. £29.99 The BBC's centenary year of 2022 was a year like many others, full of highs and lows. The corporation won the ratings war over ITV, its success leveraged by its coverage of the diamond jubilee and then the funeral of the Queen. Tim Davie, the …

  • Populism

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2023

    strafes the text of both books.Some wellplaced commentators argue that British governance would benefit from an enlargement of their numbers.Even if this idea was attractive in theory, it encounters an awkward practical obstacle if and when the politicians who choose the best-placed advisers are themselves bereft of common sense.The evidence presented here suggests that, since Brexit at least, the main activity of special advisers has been to plo…

  • Blowback

    Miles Taylor, Miles Taylor-UndifferentiatedBOOKBlowback2023

  • A Brief Report on Older Working Caregivers

    Open AccessDawn Carr, Kendra Jason et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021

    Our findings provide insights into the types of environments that caregivers work in, and the characteristics of individuals in those environments. We discuss implications of our findings for future research and work-based policy development

  • Parliamentary Representation in Modern Britain

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEThe Historical Journal2021Cited by: 1References: 4

    A series of recent books all attest to a revival of interest in the theory and practice of parliamentary representation in the modern era as a scholarly discipline. This review surveys eight different aspects of that history since the early nineteenth century: the spatial dimension of the Palace of Westminster; the comparative framework offered by the history of parliaments in Europe; ideas of parliamentary representation; the history of parliame…

  • The British constitution

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2020

  • The Bicentenary of Queen Victoria

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEJournal of British Studies2020References: 8

    The past year, 2019, was the bicentenary of the birth of Queen Victoria. Since 2001, the centenary of her death, much has changed in the scholarship about the British queen. Her own journals and correspondence are more available for researchers. European monarchies are now being taken seriously as historical topics. There is also less agreement about the Victorian era as a distinct period of study, leaving Victoria's own relationship with the era…

  • Empress

    Miles Taylor, Miles Taylor-UndifferentiatedBOOKEmpress2019

  • The Literary Turn in Chartist Studies

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2019

  • St Stephen's in War and Peace

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEParliamentary History2019

    This essay takes a new look at the destruction and the rebuilding of the house of commons during the 1940s. It argues that behind the home front bravado of the Palace of Westminster steadfastly enduring the blitz lay secret plans for rehousing MPs away from aerial bombardment, contingency scenarios that were then updated after 1945 in the event of attack on London by atomic weapons. The essay also suggests that threats to the security of parliame…

  • Postpartum Depression

    Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Michael G Taylor et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2019References: 4

  • Brexit and the British Constitution

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2019

    The Brexit referendum of 2016 brought a new concept to British politics, namely the ‘people’s will’, one that is seemingly at odds with conventional notions of parliamentary sovereignty, even a threat to its very existence. This article argues that although the device of the referendum is relatively new, the kind of popular control over Parliament and the executive that it invokes has long been a part of British politics. Ranging over 200 years, …

  • The Age of Asa

    Open AccessMiles TaylorBOOKAge of Asa2015

    Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and commun

  • The man behind the Queen

    Open AccessCharles Beem, Miles TaylorBOOKMan Behind the Queen2014

    Introduction: The Man Behind the Queen Charles Beem and Miles Taylor 1. The King Consorts of Navarre, 1284-1512 Elena Crislyn Woodacre 2. Ferdinand the Catholic: King and Consort David Abufalia 3. He to be Entitled Kinge: King Philip and the Anglo-Spanish Court Sarah Duncan 4. Why Prince George of Denmark Did Not Become a King of England Charles Beem 5. From Ruler in the Shadows to Shadow King: Frederick I of Sweden Fabian Persson 6. Count Ernst …

  • The dominion of history

    Open AccessMiles TaylorARTICLEHistorical Research2014References: 32

    In 1914 Britain lagged some way behind the U.S.A. and Germany in the development of historical research. Both at home and in the empire, the gentlemanly amateur tradition of history remained predominant. This article tells the story of what happened next: the rise of a generation of British-trained historians who went on to lead the expansion of historical research across the Commonwealth in the inter-war years. It is a story about the influence …

  • The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901

    Open AccessMiles TaylorBOOKVictorian Empire and Britain's…2013

    A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This c