Institutions, Individuals and Modern British History

JONATHAN PARRY is Professor of Modern British History, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College Cambridge Helen McCarthy is Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. James Thompson is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Bristol

• List of FiguresNote on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsPreface PART I AN INDIVIDUAL AND HIS INSTITUTIONS1 David Cannadine, History and British institutions Jonathan Parry2 David Cannadine and the Monarchy Miles Taylor3 'A Small Lighted Candle': Trusteeship and the National Portrait Gallery Sandy Nairne4 David Cannadine and Philanthropy Paul Ramsbottom PART II THE THEATRE OF STATE5 Disraeli as Theatre Joseph S. Meisel6 The Primrose, the Salon and the East: Henry Drummond Wolff and Disraelian Aristocratic Politics Jonathan Parry7 Dining in the Palace of Varieties: Institutional Culture, Society Living and Party Management in the Victorian House of Commons Paul Seaward8 History as His Story: Churchill, Memoirs and Public History David Reynolds9 Last Post: Retirement at the British Foreign Office Helen McCarthy PART III SOME METROPOLITAN INSTITUTIONS10 From Bloomsbury to the World: The Institute of Historical Research, Academic Habitus, and Historians as Public Intellectuals, 1921-39 Paul Readman and Martha Vandrei11 The London Library in its Early Decades: Social and Political Connections of a Victorian Institution Jill Pellew12 The Museum as Theatre: Sir Roy Strong at the National Portrait Gallery Charles Saumarez Smith PART IV PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND POST-WAR BRITAIN13 The Origins of Britain's National Parks: Laurie Lee, Walter Greenwood and the Documentary Film Park Here (1947) Stephanie Barczewski14 Geoffrey Crowther, Economics and Anglo-American futures James Thompson15 Boommanship: Noel Annan, Ambition, and Academic life William Whyte16 Owen Chadwick and the Writing of Christian History Stephen Taylor David Cannadine's Publications Index