Not getting his meals in the kitchen’
L ord A cton's Quest for Public Office, 1892–1894
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9879854 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T G Otte (0000-0002-4227-8938, University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 334 |
| Pages | 19-39 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-229x.12048 |
| OpenAlex | W1948236791 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The historian L ord A cton is best known as L ord R osebery's choice for the Regius Chair of Modern History at C ambridge U niversity in 1895. This outcome was not the inexorable culmination an historian's career. It was rather a form of compensation for the failure of A cton's earlier ambitions for political or public office. Drawing on hitherto largely untapped archival material this article re‐examines this crucial period in the final decade of A cton's life. To an extent, this is a study in failure. A cton's attempt to re‐enter public life remained abortive. But this study goes beyond adding to our understanding of A cton's biography. His quest for public office furnishes a useful prism to study also the prolonged post‐ G ladstonian transition phase in L iberal politics in the middle part of the 1890s, its underlying ideological fissures and the problematic personal relations at the top of the L iberal Party
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Compensation (psychology · Ideology · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Public life · Public office · Australian History and Society · Data Analysis and Archiving · History · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |