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:

• North and South · 2 August 2012

• 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

• On the Coalition · 10 June 2010

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We are all Scots here: Scotland and Empire · 12 December 2002

  • The Scottish Empire by Michael Fry

• Multiple Kingdoms: The origins of the British Empire · 19 July 2001

  • The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage

• Little Havens of Intimacy: Margaret Thatcher · 7 September 2000

  • Margaret Thatcher. Vol. I: The Grocer’s Daughter by John Campbell

• Stubble and Breath: Mother Germaine · 15 July 1999

  • The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
  • Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew by Christine Wallace

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Let them cut grass · 16 December 1993

  • The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher

• 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

• 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

• Elitism · 3 December 1992

  • The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag

• Not Many Dead · 10 September 1992

  • Riot, Risings and Revolution: Governance and Violence in 18th-Century England by Ian Gilmour

• Herstory · 9 July 1992

  • The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay by Bridget Hill

• Diary · 19 December 1991

• Things that are worth naming · 21 November 1991

  • A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by Frances Harris

• At least they paid their taxes · 25 July 1991

  • Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorised Biography by Kitty Kelley

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Stuck in Chicago · 12 November 1987

  • Women by Naim Attallah

• Invader · 9 July 1987

  • Richard Cobden: A Victorian Outsider by Wendy Hinde
  • Richard Cobden: Independent Radical by Nicholas Edsall

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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