Tag: Victorian History

Michael J. Turner, Defending ‘the principle of representation’: Andrew Bisset, The English Civil War, and The History of the Struggle for Parliamentary Government in England

Published in JVC

This post accompanies Michael J. Tuner’s ‘Journal of Victorian Culture’ article. Defending ‘the Principle of Representation’: Andrew Bisset, The English Civil War, and The History of the Struggle for Parliamentary Government in England. This article can be read here. In my article I explore trends in Victorian historiography, and in particular the political uses made of the past, using the histories published by a relatively little-known practitioner named Andrew Bisset (1803-1891). Bisset was a Scottish-born, Cambridge-educated lawyer who turned increasingly

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Hobsbawm’s Nineteenth Century: An appreciation

Victorians Beyond the Academy

Rohan McWilliam President of the British Association of Victorian Studies The passing of Eric Hobsbawm is a huge loss to anyone who cares about the nineteenth century.  For that matter, his passing is a huge loss to anyone who cares about the present moment and the future.  Hobsbawm bequeathed to many of us the assumption that, if we wished to really probe what is at stake in current affairs, we had to understand the social and economic transformations that took

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