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* Trevelyan, G. M. Illustrated Social History of England, Pelican, 1964
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G. M. Trevelyan hails 1832 as the watershed moment at which "' the sovereignty of the people ' had been established in fact, if not in law.
He was G. M. Trevelyan Lecturer at Cambridge University for 1966-67, and also lectured for six weeks at the State University of New York.
The G. M. Trevelyan Lectures, under the title The Unfinished Revolution, were published after his sudden and unexpected death in Rome in 1967.
Professor G. M. Trevelyan in his Social History of England has explained the humanitarian movement as a product of the influence of rationalism upon puritanism.
English historian G. M. Trevelyan saw it as the bridging point between economic and political history, reflecting that, " Without social history, economic history is barren and political history unintelligible.
Barrie and was the inspiration for Nana in the book Peter Pan Others visiting included D. H. Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Compton Mackenzie, Bertrand Russell, the historian G. M. Trevelyan, interior decorator Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey.
Edward Jenks was editor, and members of its editorial board included Dickinson, F. W. Hirst, C. F. G. Masterman, G. M. Trevelyan, and Nathaniel Wedd.
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Thus Trevelyan repeats the story which pictured Victor Emmanuel as refusing to abandon the famous Statuto at the insistence of General Radetzky.
Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.
Published in 1923, it did not gain the popular acclaim of the Garibaldi volumes, probably because Trevelyan felt less at home with Manin, the bourgeois lawyer, than with Garibaldi, the filibuster.
Already Trevelyan had begun to parallel his nineteenth-century Italian studies with several works on English figures of the same period.
Trevelyan centers too exclusively on Bright, is insufficiently appreciative of the views of Bright's opponents and critics, and makes light of the genuine difficulties faced by Peel.
In the story of Bright and the Corn Law agitation, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the franchise struggle Trevelyan reflects something of the moral power which enabled this independent man to exercise so immense an influence over his fellow countrymen for so long.
Associated in a sense with the Manchester School through his mother's family, Trevelyan conveys in this biography something of its moral conviction and drive.
More temperately than in the study of Grey and despite his Liberal bias, Trevelyan vividly sketches the England of pre-French Revolution days, portrays the stresses and strains of the revolutionary period in rich colors, and brings developments leading to the Reform Bill into sharp and clear focus.
In 1924 Trevelyan traveled to the United States, where he delivered the Lowell lectures at Harvard University.
Like Green, Trevelyan aimed to write a history not of `` English kings or English conquests '', but of the English people.
Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.
Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.
Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.
Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.
According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England, during the Viking occupation: “ The Scandinavians, when not on the Viking warpath, were a litigious people and loved to get together in the ‘ thing ’ to hear legal argument.
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