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Michael Bentley (historian)
English historian (born 1948) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael John Bentley FRHistS (born 12 August 1948)[2] is an English historian of British politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews[3] and is currently Senior Research Fellow in History at St Hugh's College, Oxford.[4] He is the biographer of the historian Herbert Butterfield, a former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.[5]
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Early life and career
Bentley was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 1948, the son of Peter and Jessie Bentley. He attended the University of Sheffield, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1969, before proceeding to postgraduate study at St John's College, Cambridge.[2]
From 1977 to 1995 Bentley taught history at Sheffield. He then moved to the University of St Andrews, where he was appointed Professor of Modern History; he is now Emeritus. As of 2021, he is Senior Research Fellow and Stipendiary Lecturer in History at St Hugh's College, Oxford.[6] In 2011 he was made a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[3]
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Critical reaction
Boyd Hilton has called Bentley's Politics Without Democracy 1815–1914 "a wonderfully 'inside' account of life at the top",[7] whilst K. Theodore Hoppen claims the book "provides an interesting (if allusive) study of attitudes".[8]
Personal life
Bentley is married to the historian Sarah Foot.[9]
Works
- The Liberal Mind, 1914–1929 (1977)
- High and Low Politics in Modern Britain: Ten Studies (edited, with John Stevenson; 1983).
- Politics Without Democracy, 1815–1914 (1984, 1996)
- The Climax of Liberal Politics (1987)
- Companion to Historiography (1997)
- Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1998)
- Lord Salisbury's World (2001)
- Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970 (The Wiles Lectures) (2006)
- The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God (2011)
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