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Lord Salisbury's World
Lord Salisbury (1830–1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain. At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury's World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics. Instead, it asks sensitive questions about how the political, intellectual and religious environments of the late Victorian period seemed to one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his immediate entourage in a wide landscape of relationships, perceptions and problems. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves.
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Nationhood and neighbourhood: the Lodge-Wilson quarrel and the question of progress
Underlying the Lodge-Wilson quarrel of 1919 was not the question of 'isolationism' versus 'internationalism' but questions on which conservatives and progressives had been divided long before Armistice Day and remain divided even now: Is history destined to culminate in a condition of perpetual peace? And is it in statesmen's power to hasten the advent of this condition? Wilson's optimistic answers to these questions are of a piece with that of nineteenth-century British Radical John Bright, while Lodge's scepticism is akin to that of Bright's contemporary Robert Cecil, Third Marquess of Salisbury. This essay discusses the views of these statesmen in order to show that the progressive-optimistic attitude of Bright and Wilson invites a foreign policy that dismisses the significance of nationhood and international neighbourhood.
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'A man of curious enquiry': John Peyton's Grand Tour to central Europe and Robert Cecil's intelligence network, 1596-1601
Between 1596 and 1601 John Peyton the Younger (1579–1635) travelled to Germany, Bohemia, Poland–Lithuania, Switzerland, and Italy. His accounts of the Empire and Bohemia are among the most detailed and best informed reports to have survived from the period, yet they are virtually unknown to modern scholarship. Furthermore, he was the author of the celebrated description of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, A Relation of the State of Polonia and the United Provinces of that Crown, Anno 1598. Based on new evidence, this article shows that John Peyton’s travels in Central Europe formed part of Cecil’s attempts to gather intelligence on Spanish diplomatic activity in the Empire and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. I argue that Peyton was one of many contemporaries who left England on an Elizabethan Grand Tour; a peculiar mixture of visiting European countries for culture, education and intelligence. His writings, however, belong to the more sophisticated written achievements in Elizabethan intelligence gathering.
Journal Article
Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain
'Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain' by Michael Bentley is reviewed.
Book Review
Salisbury: Victorian Titan / Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography
Salisbury: Victorian Titan. Andrew Roberts. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999. 938 pp. L25.00.
Book Review
Seeing Salisbury plain
\"Salisbury: Victorian Titan,\" by Andrew Roberts, is reviewed.
Magazine Article
Reigning not ruling
Vincent reviews \"Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography\" by David Steele.
Magazine Article