Michael Bentley (historian)

Michael Bentley is an English historian of British politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.^[1] Boyd Hilton has called Bentley's Politics without Democracy 1815-1914 "a wonderfully ‘inside’ account of life at the top",^[2] whilst K. Theodore Hoppen claims the book "provides an interesting (if allusive) study of attitudes".^[3]

Works

• The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 (1977).
• 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).

Notes

1. ^ http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/michaelbentley.html
2. ^ Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783-1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 705.
3. ^ K. Theodore Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation. 1846-1886 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), p. 726.

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