{Whig Cycles}[9th April 1991]

[Redbook9:51][19910409:0923d]{Whig Cycles}[9th April 1991]

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[A cutting in the ms, which is not reproduced in the ts, from the Times Literary Supplement 4586 dated 19910222 at page 22 headed ‘The obsolescence of the Whigs’ by H.C.G. Matthew, sub-headed ‘’Peter Mandler[:] ARISTOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN THE AGE OF REFORM: WHIGS AND LIBERALS 1830-1852 307pp Oxford: Clarendon Press. £35. 0 19 821781 1’, includes the following text with ms marginal notes:]

‘… Peter Mandler analyses the last years of distinctively Whiggish predominance, from the Grey government of 1830 to the fall of the Russell government in 1852.* He does so in an interesting historiographical context. A series of remarkable books – Richard Brent’s Liberal Anglican Politics** and Jonathan Parry’s Democracy and Religion on the Whig-Liberal side, Boyd Hilton’s The Age of Atonement chiefly on the Tory side – has caused a dramatic bouleversement in the literature. They have either set aside political economy and fiscal questions, or, in Hilton’s case, incorporated them, while constructing a general explanation of the period through religious mentalités.*** Religion has been seen, not as a factor to be referred to from time to time, but as the determining element in the political mind.’

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*64|U~1816

|A~1824

|G~1840

|C1856

**[Italics per original text throughout]

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****T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] 4586, 19910222:22

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