Professor Michael Bentley

BA (Sheff.), PhD (Cantab.), FRHistS

 

Contact Details

E-mail -  mjb6@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462895
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927

 

 

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Teaching and Research Interests

The political and intellectual history of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Philosophy of history and historiography.

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Main Publications

• The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 (1977)
• Politics without Democracy, 1815-1914 (1984, 1996)
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• The Climax of Liberal Politics (1987)
  
• Companion to Historiography (1997) [Details]
  
• Modern Historiography (1999) [Details]
• Lord Salisbury's World (2001) [Details]

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Administrative Duties

ON RESEARCH LEAVE 2009 - 2012 - Holder of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 2009 - 2012

Modern Historiography Course Co-Ordinator

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Teaching Duties

Offers the following Honours courses:

• Approaches to Historical Theory
• The Evolution of British Democracy, 1832-1918
• Ideas and Ideologies in Victorian Britain
• History and Historians in Twentieth-Century Britain

Also teaches the following Postgraduate courses:

• Core Course: History in the Making: Theories, Approaches and Practice
• Approaches to Historical Theory
• Historical Sources and Skills

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Research Students

• Joseph Tendler, Comparative study of British, French, German and Italian historiography, 1870-1939

 

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