David Cannadine

David Cannadine is the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. His most recent books are Mellon: An American Life and National Portrait Gallery: A Brief History.

In the LRB Archive:

• Last Night Fever: The Proms · 6 September 2007

• Downsize, Your Majesty · 16 October 1997

  • The Royals by Kitty Kelley

• Social Workers · 5 October 1995

  • Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy by Frank Prochaska

• What Is He Supposed To Do? · 8 December 1994

  • The Prince of Wales by Jonathan Dimbleby

• Odd Union · 20 October 1994

  • Mrs Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin

• Something to Do · 23 September 1993

  • Witness of a Century: The Life and Times of Prince Arthur of Connaught, 1850-1942 by Noble Frankland

• Queen Croesus · 13 February 1992

  • Royal Fortune: Tax, Money and the Monarchy by Phillip Hall

• The Ruling Exception · 16 August 1990

  • Queen Victoria: Gender and Power by Dorothy Thompson

• Cousinhood · 27 July 1989

  • The Social Politics of Anglo-Jewry 1880-1920 by Eugene Black
  • The Persistence of Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in British Society during the Second World War by Tony Kushner
  • The Club: The Jews of Modern Britain by Stephen Brook

• The Macaulay of the Welfare State · 6 June 1985

  • The BBC: The First 50 Years by Asa Briggs
  • The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. I: Words, Numbers, Places, People, Vol. II: Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts
  • The 19th Century: The Contradictions of Progress edited by Asa Briggs

• Severnside · 21 March 1985

  • Elgar, the Man by Michael De-la-Noy
  • Edward Elgar: A Creative Life by Jerrold Northrop Moore
  • Spirit of England: Edward Elgar in his World by Jerrold Northrop Moore
  • The Elgar-Atkins Friendship by E. Wulstan Atkins

• David Cannadine thinks about the thoughtful rich · 24 January 1985

  • The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age by Gertrude Himmelfarb

• Time, Gentlemen, Please · 19 July 1984

  • The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern
  • Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David Landes

• Lord Bounder · 19 January 1984

  • F.E. Smith, First Earl of Birkenhead by John Campbell

• Rose’s Rex · 15 September 1983

  • King George V by Kenneth Rose

• Homely Virtues · 4 August 1983

  • London: The Unique City by Steen Eiler Rasmussen
  • Town Planning in London: The 18th and 19th Centuries by Donald Olsen
  • The English Terraced House by Stefan Muthesius
  • London as it might have been by Felix Barker and Ralph Hyde

• Brideshead Revered · 17 March 1983

  • The Country House by James Lees-Milne
  • English Country Houses and Landed Estates by Heather Clemenson
  • The Last Country Houses by Clive Aslet

• Unemployed · 2 December 1982

  • Duchess: The Story of Wallis Warfield Windsor by Stephen Birmingham
  • The Duke of Windsor’s War by Michael Bloch

• Lord Cupid proves himself · 21 October 1982

  • Palmerston: The Early Years, 1784-1841 by Kenneth Bourne

• Utopia Limited · 15 July 1982

  • Fabianism and Culture: A Study in British Socialism and the Arts, 1884-1918 by Ian Britain
  • The Elmhirsts of Dartington: The Creation of an Utopian Community by Michael Young

• Thoughts on the New Economic History · 15 April 1982

  • The Economic History of Britain since 1700, Vol. 1 1700-1860, Vol. 11 1860 to the 1970s edited by Roderick Floud
  • The Population History of England1541-1871: AReconstruction by E.A. Wrigley
  • The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870 by M.W. Kirby
  • The Coming of theMass Market 1850-1914 by Hamish Fraser

• Victorian Piles · 18 March 1982

  • The Albert Memorial: The Monument in its Social and Architectural Context by Stephen Bayley
  • Victorian and Edwardian Town Halls by Colin Cunningham

• Architect as Hero · 21 January 1982

  • Lutyens: The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens
  • Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate by Roderick Gradidge
  • Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi by Robert Grant Irving
  • Lutyens: Country Houses by Daniel O’Neill
  • Lutyens and the Sea Captain by Margaret Richardson
  • Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens by Lawrence Weaver

• British Worthies · 3 December 1981

  • The Directory of National Biography, 1961-1970 edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls

• Country Life · 5 November 1981

  • The Victorian Countryside edited by G.E. Mingay

• Down and Out in London · 16 July 1981

  • Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887-1920 by Jerry White
  • East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding by Raphael Samuel

• Perpetual Sunshine · 2 July 1981

  • The Gentleman’s Country House and its Plan, 1835-1914 by Jill Franklin

• Owning Mayfair · 2 April 1981

  • Survey of London, Volume 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2. The Buildings edited by F.H.W. Sheppard

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