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Boyd Hilton

  • Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 by Anthony Howe
  • The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854 by Martin Ceadel

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Boyd Hilton teaches modern British history at Cambridge and is a fellow of Trinity College. He is the author of Corn, Cash and Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Government 1815-30 and of The Age of Atonement.

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