Reform and its complexities in modern Britain : essays inspired by Sir Brian Harrison /

"The chapters in this volume, taken together, span the era of British history (1780–the present) that has engrossed the attention of Brian Harrison in a career of more than fifty years. In keeping with his diverse interests, they vary widely in subject matter. Yet each contributes, in some fash...

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Other Authors:	Kinzer, Bruce L., 1948- (Editor), Kramer, Molly Baer, 1968- (Editor), Trainor, Richard H. (Richard Hughes), 1948- (Editor), Harrison, Brian, 1937- (honouree.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Great Britain > Politics and government. Public administration > Great Britain > History. Social movements > Great Britain > History. Political sociology > Great Britain > History. Beverages. Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement. Administration publique (Science) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Mouvements sociaux > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Sociologie politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Boissons. beverages. Great Britain. Europe. HISTORY. Modern. 20th Century. Political sociology Politics and government Public administration Social movements Great Britain Electronic books. History Festschriften.
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Table of Contents:

Instruments of reform: political parties, pressure groups, and their interrelationship in modern Britain / Martin Ceadel
Seeing like a surveyor: imagining rural reform in the early nineteenth-century UK / Joanna Innes
J. S. Mill and Protestant nonconformity / Bruce Kinzer
Another look at Victorian university reform: the case of Exeter College Oxford / Richard Trainor
Inexhaustible vicissitudes: the DNB, OUP, and the ODNB, from Sir Leslie Stephen to Sir Brian Harrison / David Cannadine
Britain in the 1880s: the industrial remuneration conference of 1885 / Lawrence Goldman
J. B. Mays and juvenile delinquency / Ross McKibbin
Pressure from within: internecine conflict in the English animal protection movement, 1950-1975 / Molly Baer Kramer
Ladies in a Lords' House: women in the House of Lords since 1958 / Duncan Sutherland
'An evil document': the reform of professional footballers' contracts in England and Wales / Alex May
Why did Wales stay in the Union in the early twentieth century? / Alvin Jackson.