1801–1804
in In the Wake of the Great Rebellion
August 2008; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 4299 words.
This chapter describes the movement during 1801–1804. Despite the lull in active resistance brought about by the cessation of hostilities between Britain and France in 1802 much of Ulster continued...
1848
in The Romanians, 1774–1866
June 1996; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 20881 words.
This chapter discusses the events of 1848, the year that signified the triumph of the idea of nation. Romanian intellectuals made a lot of effort to achieve this, from justifying demands for...
1891–1893
in Francesco Crispi 1818-1901
April 2002; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 15111 words.
Francesco Crispi's resignation as Italy's prime minister left him full of rancour. He came to believe that the king and the court had conspired to remove him. However, the scandal of the Banca Romana...
A ‘Fighting Cruiser’ to Hunt ‘the German Greyhounds’
in The Royal Navy and the German Threat, 1901-1914
May 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 13449 words.
Following the Cunard agreement, a feeling emerged in the Admiralty that countering fast German liners with even faster British ones might not be an effective policy. Liners were very vulnerable...
A ‘lay divine’: Burke, Christianity, and the Preservation of the British State, 1790–1797
in Religious Change in Europe 1650–1914
February 1997; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 14989 words.
The place of religion in the life of Edmund Burke remains a phenomenon as elusive as it is compelling, central to his vision in the 1790s. There are some areas of consensus. Most scholars, for...
A ‘Plastic Structure’
in The History of the University of Oxford
November 2000; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 35243 words.
In 1868, F. T. Palgrave saw Oxford University as entering a short ‘plastic period, [one of] those very rare and precious epochs’ when ‘radical changes are possible’. Others described the...
A ‘Silent’, ‘Modern’ Revolution?
in Sexual Politics
November 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 15918 words.
The present chapter explores the 1940s and 1950s and concentrates on the relationship between ideas of the family and reproductive control. Three questions are of particular interest. The first is...
‘A Blonde Province:’ Resettlement, Deportation, Murder
in Model Nazi
May 2010; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 13683 words.
When Greiser came to Posen in 1939, just 325,000 individuals, or 6.6% of the population in what would become the Warthegau, considered themselves German. Greiser then led one of the most dramatic and...
‘A Bridge Between’
in Bonds of Empire
June 2011; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 20164 words.
This chapter explores the role of middle-class West Indians and native Britons, who shared a vision of a British Empire sustained by a culture based on respectability, in creating BBC policies and...
‘A Busy and Suspicious “Cabal”’ or ‘Head Housemaids’? The Ladies of Queen Victoria's Household
in Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain
April 1998; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 15326 words.
This chapter begins with a discussion of the structure of the queen's female household, its office-holders, and the nature of their service. It then considers the changing significance of female...