History in the House - Some Remarkable Dons Teaching of Politics, Character Statecraft

History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance. This is an exciting new historiographical study from the much-acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines. It shows the evolution of historical ideas, purposes and methods in a clerisy that has enjoyed conspicuous influence in England for six centuries. There was growing recognition, in Tudor England, that the study of history especially improved the minds, enlarged the imaginations and broadened the vicarious experience of princes, noblemen and administrators. History showed, by precept and example, good government and bad, virtue and vice in rulers, and the reasons for the success or failure of states. History in the House looks at the temperaments, ideas, imagination, prejudices, intentions and influence of a select and self-regulated group of men who taught modern history at Christ Church: Frederick York Powell, Arthur Hassall, Keith Feiling, J. C. Masterman, Roy Harrod, Patrick Gordon Walker, and Hugh Trevor-Roper (a Victorian radical, a staunch legitimist of the protestant settlement, a conservative, a Whig, a Keynesian, a socialist, and a contrarian).

Product details

• Authors: Richard Davenport-Hines, Davenport-Hines Richard
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780008285722
• ISBN: 978-0-00-828572-2
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; European History, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historical Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Political science and theory, Historical Geography, Title;