Jonathan Parry

Jonathan Parry teaches British history at Cambridge. He is the author of The Politics of Patriotism, among other books.

In the LRB Archive:

• Educating the Utopians: Parliament’s Hour · 18 April 2019

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 edited by David Brown, Robert Crowcroft and Gordon Pentland

• Adrenaline Junkie: John Tyndall’s Ascent · 21 March 2019

  • The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer and Public Intellectual by Roland Jackson

• What’s the big idea?: The Origins of Our Decline · 30 November 2017

  • The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer

• Journeys across Blankness: Mapping the Middle East · 19 October 2017

  • Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921 by Daniel Foliard

• Bovril and Biscuits: mid-Victorian Britain · 13 May 1999

  • The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-86 by Theodore Hoppen

• The Real Founder of the Liberal Party · 2 October 1997

  • Lord Melbourne 1779-1848 by L.G. Mitchell

• Holborn at Heart · 23 January 1997

  • Disraeli: A Brief Life by Paul Smith

• Duffers · 21 September 1995

  • The City of London. Vol. II: Golden Years, 1890-1914 by David Kynaston

• Dear George · 22 December 1994

  • Curzon by David Gilmour

• Crawling towards God · 10 November 1994

  • The Gladstone Diaries, with Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence. Vol. XII: 1887-1891 edited by H.C.G. Matthew
  • The Gladstone Diaries, with Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence. Vol. XIII: 1892-1896 edited by H.C.G. Matthew
  • The Gladstone Diaries, with Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence. Vol. XIV: Index edited by H.C.G. Matthew

• No Gentleman · 23 June 1994

  • Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics by Peter Marsh

• Footing the bill · 9 June 1994

  • Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain by David Cannadine

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