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Sir Arthur Bryant and national history in twentieth-century Britain
- Title
- Sir Arthur Bryant and national history in twentieth-century Britain / Julia Stapleton.
- Author
- Stapleton, Julia.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xvi, 307 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Sir Arthur Bryant and National History in Twentieth-Century Britain is a significant new study of the work of popular historian and journalist Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). Julia Stapleton shows us that Bryant prefigured and sustained a form of romantic nationalism that remained nascent within the British population (although not always its elites) deep into the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-296) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Early life and the First World War -- 2. Oxford and the making of a middlebrow figure -- 3. Patriotism, pageantry, and Tory history -- 4. National character, the countryside, and the English country house -- 5. The life of Samuel Pepys and liberal-conservatism in the 1930s -- 6. The offensive against the left in interwar Britain -- 7. The crown, dictatorships, and appeasement -- 8. Nazi fellow-traveling, 1939-1940 -- 9. History and patriotism during the Second World War -- 10. Captive audiences, new alliances, and the retreat from conservatism in 1945 -- 11. Postwar niche, the armed services, and political disillusion -- 12. The history of England in the new Elizabethan age -- 13. Friends, critics, and the end of the Tory-Whig road -- 14. Final years : political commentator -- 15. Final years : national historian.
- ISBN
- 0739109693 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004024726
- OCLC
- ocm56806596
- SCSB-13970920
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries