Jose Harris

Jose Harris is an emeritus professor of modern history at Oxford and the author of a biography of William Beveridge. Her most recent book was Civil Society in British History.

In the LRB Archive:

• Their Way: On the Origin of Altruism · 12 March 2009

  • The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain by Thomas Dixon

• Boy Scouts, Bands of Hope, Football Clubs and Corner Shops · 2 October 1997

  • Pluralism and the Personality of the State by David Runciman

• Last Victorian · 10 November 1994

  • Selected Writings. Vol. I: Crime and the Penal System 1 by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean
  • Selected Writings. Vol. II: Crime and the Penal System 2 by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean
  • Selected Writings. Vol. III: Social and Political Thought by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean
  • Selected Writings. Vol. IV: Economic and Methodological Thought by Barbara Wootton, edited by Vera Seal and Philip Bean

• Principal Ornament · 3 December 1992

  • G.M. Trevelyan: A life in History by David Cannadine

• Nobody wants it · 5 December 1991

  • Letters to Eva, 1969-1983 by A.J.P. Taylor, edited by Eva Haraszti Taylor

• Office Parties · 10 May 1990

  • The Rise of Professional Society: England since 1880 by Harold Perkin

• One Nation · 23 June 1988

  • The Health Services since the War. Vol. I: Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service before 1957 by Charles Webster

• Alternative Tories · 23 April 1987

  • Baldwin by Roy Jenkins
  • Rab: The Life of R.A. Butler by Anthony Howard
  • The Political Culture of Modern Britain: Studies in Memory of Stephen Koss edited by J.M.W. Bean

• Tales of the Unexpected · 20 November 1986

  • Marriage and Morals among the Victorians, and Other Essays by Gertrude Himmelfarb

• Warfield · 24 July 1986

  • Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937 edited by Michael Bloch
  • Rat Week: An Essay on the Abdication by Osbert Sitwell

• Tethering the broomstick · 18 April 1985

  • Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912-1916 by John Grigg

• Chamberlain for our Time · 20 December 1984

  • Neville Chamberlain. Vol. I: 1869-1929 by David Dilks

• Sour Apple · 5 July 1984

  • H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West
  • Heritage by Anthony West

• Politics First · 19 April 1984

  • The Chartists by Dorothy Thompson
  • Languages of Class: Studies in English Working-Class History 1832-1982 by Gareth Stedman  Jones
  • Class Power and State Power by Ralph Miliband

• Immoralist · 1 December 1983

  • John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky

• Nature’s Chastity · 15 September 1983

  • Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the 19th Century by Barbara Taylor
  • Virgins and Viragos: A History of Women in Scotland from 1080 to 1980 by Rosalind Marshall

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