Michael Bentley (historian)
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| Michael Bentley FRHistS |
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| Born | Michael John Bentley 12 August 1948 Rotherham, England |
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| School or tradition | Peterhouse school[1] |
| Influences | Maurice Cowling |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub discipline | Late-modern British political history |
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Michael John Bentley FRHistS (born 12 August 1948)[2] is an English historian of British politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.[3]
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Early life and career
Bentley was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 1948, the son of Peter and Jessie Bentley. He attended the University of Sheffield, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1969, before proceeding to postgraduate study at St John's College, Cambridge.[2]
From 1977 to 1995 Bentley taught history at Sheffield. He then moved to the University of St Andrews, where he was appointed Professor of Modern History; he is now Emeritus. As of 2021, he is Senior Research Fellow and Stipendiary Lecturer in History at St Hugh's College, Oxford.[4] In 2011 he was made a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[3]
Critical reaction
Boyd Hilton has called Bentley's Politics Without Democracy 1815–1914 "a wonderfully 'inside' account of life at the top",[5] whilst K. Theodore Hoppen claims the book "provides an interesting (if allusive) study of attitudes".[6]
Personal life
Bentley is married to the historian Sarah Foot.[7]
Works
- The Liberal Mind, 1914–1929 (1977)
- High and Low Politics in Modern Britain: Ten Studies (edited, with John Stevenson; 1983).
- Politics Without Democracy, 1815–1914 (1984, 1996)
- The Climax of Liberal Politics (1987)
- Companion to Historiography (1997)
- Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1998)
- Lord Salisbury's World (2001)
- Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970 (The Wiles Lectures) (2006)
- The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God (2011)
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 'BENTLEY, Michael (John) 1948-'. encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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- ↑ 'Professor Michael Bentley'. St Hugh's College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ↑ Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783–1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 705.
- ↑ K. Theodore Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation. 1846–1886 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), p. 726.
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Further reading
- Middleton, Alex. "'High Politics' and Its Intellectual Contexts." Parliamentary History 40.1 (2021): 168–191. online
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