Robert Saunders
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Saunders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Saunders |
| SIGNATURE | SAUNDERS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Brexit as Democratic Crisis: Parliament, People and Prophetic Democracy, 2016–2019
The vote to leave the European Union in 2016 triggered the most serious democratic crisis in Britain since the summer of 1914. Over the next three-and-a-half years, Brexit engaged fundamental democratic questions about how democracies make decisions, who speaks for ‘the people’ and what happens when different visions of democracy collide. With judges cast as ‘enemies of the people’, Parliament temporarily suspended and Members of Parliament denou…
How Do We Write the History of Brexit
The vote to leave the European Union in 2016 and the political crisis that followed offer obvious subjects for the political historian. Yet, the study of Brexit raises serious challenges for academic writing, concerning method, the political preferences of the historian and the implication of history as a discipline in the European debate. This article explores some of the dilemmas and opportunities confronting the historian of Brexit, focussing,…
Brexit and Empire: ‘Global Britain’ and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia
In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are usually polemical in character; they suggest, at least implicitly, that only Leave voters are subject to imperial patterns of thought; they fail to differentiate between Commonwealth and imperial loyalties; and they conflate ‘nostalgia’ with ‘amnesia’. Th…
Sympathy for the Devil? Uncovering Inhibitors and Enablers of Emotional Engagement Between Zoo Visitors and the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisi
This article explores enablers and inhibitors of emotional engagement between visitors and Tasmanian devils at Healesville Sanctuary, Australia. A qualitative research approach was utilized including 44 interviews (ten with staff and 34 with visitors) and eight hours of observations of 622 visitors. Findings are presented in relation to six themes: (a) visitors’ motivations for viewing Tasmanian devils, (b) visitors’ emotional responses to Tasman…
A Great and Holy War’: Religious Routes to Women’s Suffrage, 1909–1914
Looking back on the Edwardian suffrage campaign, the militant suffragette Annie Kenney thought it ‘more like a religious revival than a political movement’. Its language and iconography were steeped in Christian imagery, yet the religious arguments for enfranchisement have rarely received close attention. This article shows how campaigners grappled with patriarchal readings of Genesis, St Paul and the traditions of the Church to construct a Chris…
Introduction: ‘Shooting Niagara – and After?’
The Many Lives of Margaret Thatcher
From the moment she stormed the Tory leadership in 1975, books and articles on Margaret Thatcher have gushed like a torrent from the printing press. The discerning Thatcher scholar can now choose from more than thirty biographies, several hundred books and articles, a movie adaptation, and numerous dramas and documentaries. The literature on ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ is rich, sophisticated and methodologically diverse, drawing not just on history and …
Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act
The Second Reform Act, passed in 1867, created a million new voters, doubling the electorate and propelling the British state into the age of mass politics. It marked the end of a twenty year struggle for the working class vote, in which seven different governments had promised change. Yet the standard works on 1867 are more than forty years old and no study has ever been published of reform in prior decades. This study provides the first analysi…
A Tale of Two Referendums: 1975 And 2016
The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History . By Tara Martin López
For most of the twentieth century, party identity in Britain drew heavily on narratives about the past. The politics of the left were underpinned by a school of ‘labour history’, propagated not just in university history departments but in working men’s clubs, labour colleges and the Workers’ Educational Association. The right deployed history as a proxy for ‘ideology’, mobilizing the authority of experience behind Conservative political position…
Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet: Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan, and Part of Tibet
God and the Great Reform Act: Preaching against Reform, 1831–32
The struggle for the “Great” Reform Act was one of the most serious crises of the nineteenth century, stirring controversy not only in Parliament and the political unions but in churches and chapels across the country. For many of its supporters, reform was a holy cause; for its opponents, it was a “Satanic” measure. This article seeks to reestablish reform as a religious controversy, paying special attention to the religious press and to the hun…
An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet: Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet
In 1783, at the opportunity presented by a new Panchen (or Teshoo) Lama, Bengal governor-general Warren Hastings sent a deputation to Tibet and Bhutan in the hope of promoting British-Indian trade across the Himalayas. Samuel Turner (1759–1802), an army officer in the East India Company, was appointed leader of the mission. His journal, offering first-hand descriptions of these countries, was originally published in 1800 and remained the only suc…
Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska
Journal Article Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska Get access Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2012; pp. 169. £25). Robert Saunders Robert Saunders Jesus College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pages 985–987, https…
Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815–1914: Making Words Flesh . By William C. Lubenow
Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815–1914: Making Words Flesh. By William C. Lubenow." Cultural and Social History, 9(4), pp. 625–626
Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain - By F.D. Parsons: Reviews
Chartism from above: British elites and the interpretation of Chartism
Chartism existed to exert pressure on the parliamentary classes, yet the interaction between Chartism and its audience has rarely been closely examined. Studies of the political engagement with Chartism have usually focused on questions of policing and control, but such an emphasis was only possible if Chartism was first delegitimized as an authentic popular voice. This article explores the upper-class engagement with Chartism, arguing that it wa…
Birds and marine mammals in southwestern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada
The southwestern part of Foxe Basin is a little known region of the Canadian Arctic, being difficult to access during the summer because of heavy and unpredictable ice conditions. Surveys of birds and marine mammals in the area were carried out by lightweight expeditions in the summers of 1994 and 1995, using sea-kayaks, as well as a Peterhead boat from the nearest community, at Repulse Bay. The area supports important populations of narwhal, bow…
The Politics of Reform and the Making of the Second Reform Act, 1848–1867
The second reform act came at the close of a remarkable period of constitutional debate, in which seven different governments had committed themselves to reform. Yet historians have shown little interest in this debate, seeing it as largely irrelevant to the making of the second reform act. This article seeks to reconnect the discussions of the 1850s with the measure of 1867, and to explore some of the issues that shaped the course of legislation…
Lord John Russell and Parliamentary Reform, 1848–67
Between 1848 and 1867, the reform of parliament was one of the key subjects of political debate in Britain. The central figure in this debate was Lord John Russell, but his approach to reform has been little understood. This article uses Russell's extensive writings and speeches on reform, accumulated over a period of fifty years, to reappraise his objectives as a reformer, and his reasons for returning to the subject twelve years after the ‘fina…
From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997
Journal Article From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997 Get access Langum David J. Walthall Howard P., From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xiii, 306 pp. $35.00. Robert Saunders, Jr. Robert Saunders, Jr. Troy State University Dothan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, I…
Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865
Southern Populists and the Negro: 1893-1895
Brexit and Empire: ‘Global Britain’ and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia
In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are usually polemical in character; they suggest, at least implicitly, that only Leave voters are subject to imperial patterns of thought; they fail to differentiate between Commonwealth and imperial loyalties; and they conflate ‘nostalgia’ with ‘amnesia’. Th…
A Tale of Two Referendums: 1975 And 2016
Chartism from above: British elites and the interpretation of Chartism
Chartism existed to exert pressure on the parliamentary classes, yet the interaction between Chartism and its audience has rarely been closely examined. Studies of the political engagement with Chartism have usually focused on questions of policing and control, but such an emphasis was only possible if Chartism was first delegitimized as an authentic popular voice. This article explores the upper-class engagement with Chartism, arguing that it wa…
The Politics of Reform and the Making of the Second Reform Act, 1848–1867
The second reform act came at the close of a remarkable period of constitutional debate, in which seven different governments had committed themselves to reform. Yet historians have shown little interest in this debate, seeing it as largely irrelevant to the making of the second reform act. This article seeks to reconnect the discussions of the 1850s with the measure of 1867, and to explore some of the issues that shaped the course of legislation…
A Great and Holy War’: Religious Routes to Women’s Suffrage, 1909–1914
Looking back on the Edwardian suffrage campaign, the militant suffragette Annie Kenney thought it ‘more like a religious revival than a political movement’. Its language and iconography were steeped in Christian imagery, yet the religious arguments for enfranchisement have rarely received close attention. This article shows how campaigners grappled with patriarchal readings of Genesis, St Paul and the traditions of the Church to construct a Chris…
The Many Lives of Margaret Thatcher
From the moment she stormed the Tory leadership in 1975, books and articles on Margaret Thatcher have gushed like a torrent from the printing press. The discerning Thatcher scholar can now choose from more than thirty biographies, several hundred books and articles, a movie adaptation, and numerous dramas and documentaries. The literature on ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ is rich, sophisticated and methodologically diverse, drawing not just on history and …
Lord John Russell and Parliamentary Reform, 1848–67
Between 1848 and 1867, the reform of parliament was one of the key subjects of political debate in Britain. The central figure in this debate was Lord John Russell, but his approach to reform has been little understood. This article uses Russell's extensive writings and speeches on reform, accumulated over a period of fifty years, to reappraise his objectives as a reformer, and his reasons for returning to the subject twelve years after the ‘fina…
How Do We Write the History of Brexit
The vote to leave the European Union in 2016 and the political crisis that followed offer obvious subjects for the political historian. Yet, the study of Brexit raises serious challenges for academic writing, concerning method, the political preferences of the historian and the implication of history as a discipline in the European debate. This article explores some of the dilemmas and opportunities confronting the historian of Brexit, focussing,…
The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History . By Tara Martin López
For most of the twentieth century, party identity in Britain drew heavily on narratives about the past. The politics of the left were underpinned by a school of ‘labour history’, propagated not just in university history departments but in working men’s clubs, labour colleges and the Workers’ Educational Association. The right deployed history as a proxy for ‘ideology’, mobilizing the authority of experience behind Conservative political position…
God and the Great Reform Act: Preaching against Reform, 1831–32
The struggle for the “Great” Reform Act was one of the most serious crises of the nineteenth century, stirring controversy not only in Parliament and the political unions but in churches and chapels across the country. For many of its supporters, reform was a holy cause; for its opponents, it was a “Satanic” measure. This article seeks to reestablish reform as a religious controversy, paying special attention to the religious press and to the hun…
Southern Populists and the Negro: 1893-1895
Southern Populists and the Negro: 1893-1895
Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865
From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997
Journal Article From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997 Get access Langum David J. Walthall Howard P., From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xiii, 306 pp. $35.00. Robert Saunders, Jr. Robert Saunders, Jr. Troy State University Dothan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, I…
Lord John Russell and Parliamentary Reform, 1848–67
Between 1848 and 1867, the reform of parliament was one of the key subjects of political debate in Britain. The central figure in this debate was Lord John Russell, but his approach to reform has been little understood. This article uses Russell's extensive writings and speeches on reform, accumulated over a period of fifty years, to reappraise his objectives as a reformer, and his reasons for returning to the subject twelve years after the ‘fina…
Birds and marine mammals in southwestern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada
The southwestern part of Foxe Basin is a little known region of the Canadian Arctic, being difficult to access during the summer because of heavy and unpredictable ice conditions. Surveys of birds and marine mammals in the area were carried out by lightweight expeditions in the summers of 1994 and 1995, using sea-kayaks, as well as a Peterhead boat from the nearest community, at Repulse Bay. The area supports important populations of narwhal, bow…
The Politics of Reform and the Making of the Second Reform Act, 1848–1867
The second reform act came at the close of a remarkable period of constitutional debate, in which seven different governments had committed themselves to reform. Yet historians have shown little interest in this debate, seeing it as largely irrelevant to the making of the second reform act. This article seeks to reconnect the discussions of the 1850s with the measure of 1867, and to explore some of the issues that shaped the course of legislation…
Chartism from above: British elites and the interpretation of Chartism
Chartism existed to exert pressure on the parliamentary classes, yet the interaction between Chartism and its audience has rarely been closely examined. Studies of the political engagement with Chartism have usually focused on questions of policing and control, but such an emphasis was only possible if Chartism was first delegitimized as an authentic popular voice. This article explores the upper-class engagement with Chartism, arguing that it wa…
Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain - By F.D. Parsons: Reviews
Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815–1914: Making Words Flesh . By William C. Lubenow
Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815–1914: Making Words Flesh. By William C. Lubenow." Cultural and Social History, 9(4), pp. 625–626
An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet: Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet
In 1783, at the opportunity presented by a new Panchen (or Teshoo) Lama, Bengal governor-general Warren Hastings sent a deputation to Tibet and Bhutan in the hope of promoting British-Indian trade across the Himalayas. Samuel Turner (1759–1802), an army officer in the East India Company, was appointed leader of the mission. His journal, offering first-hand descriptions of these countries, was originally published in 1800 and remained the only suc…
Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska
Journal Article Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska Get access Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2012; pp. 169. £25). Robert Saunders Robert Saunders Jesus College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pages 985–987, https…
Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet: Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan, and Part of Tibet
God and the Great Reform Act: Preaching against Reform, 1831–32
The struggle for the “Great” Reform Act was one of the most serious crises of the nineteenth century, stirring controversy not only in Parliament and the political unions but in churches and chapels across the country. For many of its supporters, reform was a holy cause; for its opponents, it was a “Satanic” measure. This article seeks to reestablish reform as a religious controversy, paying special attention to the religious press and to the hun…
The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History . By Tara Martin López
For most of the twentieth century, party identity in Britain drew heavily on narratives about the past. The politics of the left were underpinned by a school of ‘labour history’, propagated not just in university history departments but in working men’s clubs, labour colleges and the Workers’ Educational Association. The right deployed history as a proxy for ‘ideology’, mobilizing the authority of experience behind Conservative political position…
Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act
The Second Reform Act, passed in 1867, created a million new voters, doubling the electorate and propelling the British state into the age of mass politics. It marked the end of a twenty year struggle for the working class vote, in which seven different governments had promised change. Yet the standard works on 1867 are more than forty years old and no study has ever been published of reform in prior decades. This study provides the first analysi…
A Tale of Two Referendums: 1975 And 2016
Introduction: ‘Shooting Niagara – and After?’
The Many Lives of Margaret Thatcher
From the moment she stormed the Tory leadership in 1975, books and articles on Margaret Thatcher have gushed like a torrent from the printing press. The discerning Thatcher scholar can now choose from more than thirty biographies, several hundred books and articles, a movie adaptation, and numerous dramas and documentaries. The literature on ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ is rich, sophisticated and methodologically diverse, drawing not just on history and …
Sympathy for the Devil? Uncovering Inhibitors and Enablers of Emotional Engagement Between Zoo Visitors and the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisi
This article explores enablers and inhibitors of emotional engagement between visitors and Tasmanian devils at Healesville Sanctuary, Australia. A qualitative research approach was utilized including 44 interviews (ten with staff and 34 with visitors) and eight hours of observations of 622 visitors. Findings are presented in relation to six themes: (a) visitors’ motivations for viewing Tasmanian devils, (b) visitors’ emotional responses to Tasman…
A Great and Holy War’: Religious Routes to Women’s Suffrage, 1909–1914
Looking back on the Edwardian suffrage campaign, the militant suffragette Annie Kenney thought it ‘more like a religious revival than a political movement’. Its language and iconography were steeped in Christian imagery, yet the religious arguments for enfranchisement have rarely received close attention. This article shows how campaigners grappled with patriarchal readings of Genesis, St Paul and the traditions of the Church to construct a Chris…
Brexit and Empire: ‘Global Britain’ and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia
In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are usually polemical in character; they suggest, at least implicitly, that only Leave voters are subject to imperial patterns of thought; they fail to differentiate between Commonwealth and imperial loyalties; and they conflate ‘nostalgia’ with ‘amnesia’. Th…
How Do We Write the History of Brexit
The vote to leave the European Union in 2016 and the political crisis that followed offer obvious subjects for the political historian. Yet, the study of Brexit raises serious challenges for academic writing, concerning method, the political preferences of the historian and the implication of history as a discipline in the European debate. This article explores some of the dilemmas and opportunities confronting the historian of Brexit, focussing,…
Brexit as Democratic Crisis: Parliament, People and Prophetic Democracy, 2016–2019
The vote to leave the European Union in 2016 triggered the most serious democratic crisis in Britain since the summer of 1914. Over the next three-and-a-half years, Brexit engaged fundamental democratic questions about how democracies make decisions, who speaks for ‘the people’ and what happens when different visions of democracy collide. With judges cast as ‘enemies of the people’, Parliament temporarily suspended and Members of Parliament denou…
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