Linda Colley
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton. Her books include Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837.
In the LRB Archive:
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North and South · 2 August 2012
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Little Englander Histories: Little Englandism · 22 July 2010
- A Mad, Bad & Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 by Boyd Hilton
- Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1780-1939 by James Belich
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On the Coalition · 10 June 2010
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Not Like the Rest of Us: The Clinton Succession · 16 August 2007
- A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein
- Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta
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Powered by Fear: putting the navy in its place · 3 February 2005
- The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 by N.A.M. Rodger
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I am the Watchman: William Cobbett, forerunner of the Sun · 20 November 2003
- William Cobbett: Selected Writings edited by Leonora Nattrass
- Rural rides by William Cobbett, edited by Ian Dyck
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We are all Scots here: Scotland and Empire · 12 December 2002
- The Scottish Empire by Michael Fry
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Multiple Kingdoms: The origins of the British Empire · 19 July 2001
- The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage
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Little Havens of Intimacy: Margaret Thatcher · 7 September 2000
- Margaret Thatcher. Vol. I: The Grocer’s Daughter by John Campbell
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Stubble and Breath: Mother Germaine · 15 July 1999
- The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
- Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew by Christine Wallace
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Why Darcy would not have married Elizabeth Bennet: women in Georgian England · 3 September 1998
- The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Victorian England by Amanda Vickery
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A Magazine of Wisdom · 4 September 1997
- Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature by Nicholas Robinson
- The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. III: Party, Parliament and the American War 1774-80 edited by Warren Elofson and John Woods
- Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire by Frederick Whelan
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Clashes and Collaborations · 18 July 1996
- Empire: The British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present by Denis Judd
- Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire edited by P.J. Marshall
- Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c.1500-c.1800 by Anthony Pagden
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Strutting · 21 September 1995
- All the Sweets of Being: The Life of James Boswell by Roger Hutchinson
- James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ edited by Marshall Waingrow
- Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia by Pat Rogers
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Vengeful Susan · 22 September 1994
- Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660-1753 by Lawrence Stone
- Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660-1857 by Lawrence Stone
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Let them cut grass · 16 December 1993
- The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
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Send them to Eton! · 19 August 1993
- The End of the House of Windsor: Birth of a British Republic by Stephen Haseler
- The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor by A.N. Wilson
- Royal Throne: The Future of the Monarchy by Elizabeth Longford
- Diana v. Charles by James Whitaker
- The Tarnished Crown by Anthony Holden
- Inheritance: A Psychological History of the Royal Family by Dennis Friedman
- Raine and Johnnie: The Spencers and the Scandal of Althorp by Angela Levin
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Identity Parade · 25 February 1993
- People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust by James Lees-Milne
- The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769 by Michael Dobson
- Myths of the English edited by Roy Porter
- Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels
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Elitism · 3 December 1992
- The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
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Not Many Dead · 10 September 1992
- Riot, Risings and Revolution: Governance and Violence in 18th-Century England by Ian Gilmour
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Herstory · 9 July 1992
- The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay by Bridget Hill
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Diary · 19 December 1991
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Things that are worth naming · 21 November 1991
- A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by Frances Harris
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At least they paid their taxes · 25 July 1991
- Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorised Biography by Kitty Kelley
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Sweet Homes and Tolerant Houses · 16 August 1990
- A History of Private Life. Vol IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War edited by Michelle Perrot, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan
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Strong Government · 7 December 1989
- The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1788 by John Brewer
- Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution by John Gascoigne
- Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World by C.A. Bayly
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Last Farewells · 22 June 1989
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
- The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
- The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution by David Bindman
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Downward Mobility · 4 May 1989
- The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians edited by John Cannon, R.H.C. Davis, William Doyle and Jack Greene
- Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794 by Patricia Craddock
- Edward Gibbon: Making History by Roy Porter
- Macaulay by Owen Dudley Edwards
- Acton by Hugh Tulloch
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The point of it all · 1 September 1988
- The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy by V.G. Kiernan
- History, Classes and Nation-States: Selected Writings of Victor Kiernan edited by Harvey Kaye
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Sire of the Poor · 17 March 1988
- Victorian Values and 20th-Century Condescension by Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Peel and the Victorians by Donald Read
- Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England by Olive Anderson
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Stuck in Chicago · 12 November 1987
- Women by Naim Attallah
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Invader · 9 July 1987
- Richard Cobden: A Victorian Outsider by Wendy Hinde
- Richard Cobden: Independent Radical by Nicholas Edsall
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A Talented Past · 23 April 1987
- The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. I: Survey edited by R.G. Thorne
- The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. II: Constituencies edited by R.G. Thorne
- The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. III: Members A-F edited by R.G. Thorne
- The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. IV: Members G-P edited by R.G. Thorne
- The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790-1820. Vol. V: Members P-Z edited by R.G. Thorne
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Napoleon’s Near Miss · 18 April 1985
- Napoleon: The Myth of the Saviour by Jean Tulard, translated by Teresa Waugh
- Alexis: Tsar of All the Russias by Philip Longworth
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Counter-Factuals · 1 November 1984
- The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob
- Insurrection: The British Experience 1795-1803 by Roger Wells
- Radicalism and Freethought in 19th-Century Britain by Joel Wiener
- For King, Constitution and Country: The English Loyalists and the French Revolution by Robert Dozier
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In Praise of Lolly · 3 February 1983
- The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialisation of 18th-Century England by Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb
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