18th and 19th century Religion and Society Primary 1. William Gibson, The Church of England, 1688-1832: Unity and Accord (London: Routledge, 2001). 2. Gordan Rupp, Religion in England, 1688-1791 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). 3. Donald Spaeth, The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). 4. Peter Virgin, The Church in an Age of Negligence (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1989). 5. Walsh, John. "Elie Halévy and the Birth of Methodism." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 5th ser., no. 25 (1975): 1-20. 6. Noll, M.A., D.W. Bebbington, and G.A. Rawlyk, eds. Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles, and Beyond, 1700-1990. New York and Oxford, 1994. Comprehensive 7. Chadwick, Owen. The Victorian Church. Vol. 1. London1966. 8. Chadwick, Owen. The Victorian Church. Vol. 2. New York1970. 9. Parsons, Gerald, and J.R. Moore, eds. Religion in Victorian England: Interpretations. Vol. 4. Manchester, 1988. 10. Parsons, Gerald, and J.R. Moore, eds. Religion in Victorian England: Traditions. Vol. 1. Manchester, 1988. 11. Parsons, Gerald, and J.R. Moore, eds. Religion in Victorian England: Controversies. Vol. 2. Manchester, 1988. Unclassified Primary 12. Gilbert, Alan D. Religion and Society in Industrial England: Church, Chapel, and Social Change, 1740-1914. London1976. 13. Bebbington, David. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s. London1988. Social dimensions of Religion Primary 14. Inglis, K.S. Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England. London and Toronto1963. Unclassified 15. Jones, Peter. D.A. The Christian-Socialist Revival, 1877-1914: Religion, Class, and Social Conscience in Late Victorian England. Princeton1967. 16. Kitson Clark, G.S.R. Churchmen and the Condition of England, 1832-1885: A Study in the Development of Social Ideas, and Practice from the Old Regime to the Modern State. London1973.

17. Ward, William R. Religion and Society in England, 1790-1850. London1972. Secondary Religion in Rural Society 18. Obelkevich, James. Religion and Rural Society: South Lindsey, 1825-1875. London1976. Religion and British Empire 19. Porter, A.N. “Religion and Empire: British Expansion in the Long Nineteenth Century, 17801914.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol 20, No. 3, p. 370-90. London, 1992 Impact of Evangelical Christianity on Upper and Middle Classes [and thus public affairs] 20. Hilton, Boyd. The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865. Oxford1988. Popular Millenarianism 21. Harrison, J.F.C. The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850. London1979.

18th and 19th Century Working Classes 18th Century Labor Introductory 1. Rule, J.G. The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850. London and New York1986. 2. Malcolmson, R.W. Life and Labour in England, 1700-1780. London1981. 3. Harold Perkin, Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969). 4. David Cannadine, The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). Early Trade Unionism 5. Rule, J.G., ed. British Trade Unionism, 1750-1850: The Formative Years. London, 1988. 6. Stevenson, John. Popular Disturbances in England, 1700-1870. 2nd ed. London and New York1992. 7. Boyer, G.R. An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850. Cambridge1990. Class Consciousness 8. Thompson, E.P. "Eighteenth-Century English Society: Class Struggle without Class?" Social History 3 (1978): 133-65.

Early 19th Century Thompson and Critisism

9. Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. London1963. 10. Currie, R., and R.M. Hartwell. "The Making of the English Working Class?" The Economic History Review 18, no. 3 (1965): 633-43. Debate over ‘Class vs. Community’ cont. 11. Craig Calhoun, The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism during the Industrial Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982). 12. E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (New York: New Press, 1991). 13. John Bohstedt, Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790-1810 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983). 14. Briggs, Asa. "The Language of Class in Early Nineteenth-Century England." In Essays in Labour History, edited by Asa Briggs and John Saville, 43-73. London, 1960. Chartism 15. Thompson, Dorothy. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. London and New York1984.

Middle-Late 19th Century Primary (Trade Unionism and Labor Aristorcracy) 16. 17. 18. 19.

Hobsbawm, E.J. Labouring Men. London1964. Hobsbawm, E.J. Workers: Worlds of Labor. New York1984. Musson, A.E. British Trade Unions, 1800-1875. London1972. Lovell, John. British Trade Unions, 1875-1933. London1976.

Alternate Primary Text 20. Joyce, Patrick. Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1848-1914. Cambridge1991. Trade Unionism and Working Class Life 21. Meacham, Standish. A Life Apart: The English Working Class, 1890-1914. Cambridge, MA1977.

Secondary Additions 22. Bridget Hill, Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England (Montreal: McGillQueens University Press, 1994). 23. Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age (New York: Knopf, 1984).

Landed and Monied Elites of the 18th and 19th Centuries

18th Century 1. Stone, Lawrence, and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone. An Open Elite? England, 1540-1880. Oxford and New York1984. 2. Mingay, G.E. English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century. London and Toronto1963. 3. Cannadine, David. The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain. New York1999 4. Beckett, J.V. The Aristocracy in England. Oxford1986. 5. Habakkuk, H.J. "The Rise and Fall of English Landed Families, 1600-1800, Pts. 1,2." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 5th ser., no. 29 (1979): 187-207. 6. Habakkuk, H.J. "The Rise and Fall of English Landed Families, 1600-1800, Pts. 1,2." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 5th ser., no. 30 (1980): 199-221. 18th century Secondary – check first 7. Munsche, P.B. Gentlemen And Poachers: The English Game Laws, 1671-1831. Cambridge1981. 8. Roebuck, Peter. Yorkshire Baronets, 1640-1760: Families, Estates, and Fortunes. Oxford1980.

19th Century Primary 9. Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. 10. Perkin, Harold. The Rise of Professional Society: England since 1880. London and New York1989. Esp. chapters 1-5 Main Secondary 11. Crouzet, Francois. The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. Cambridge1985. 12. Malchow, H.L. Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman. Basingstoke and London1991. 13. Morris, R.J. Class, Sect, and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class: Leeds, 1820-1850. Manchester1990. Professional Middle Class 14. Reader, W.J. Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth-Century England. London1966. Growth of middle classes relative to the landed elite 15. Rubinstein, W.D. Wealth and Inequality in England. London1986. 16. Rubinstein, W.D. "Wealth, Elites, and the Class Structure of Modern England." Past and Present, no. 76 (Aug. 1977): 99-126. Landed Elite 17. Thompson, F.M.L. "Britain." In European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century, edited by David Spring. Baltimore, 1977. 18. Thompson, F.M.L. English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century. London and Toronto1963.

19th and 20th Centuries – The Rise of Labour and the Decline of the Liberal Party Liberalism, Overview (1868-1929) 1. Bentley, Michael, The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice, 18681918. London, 1987. 2. Searle, G.R, The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929. London [?]. 1992. 3. Martin Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939. 2nd ed., Oxford, 1993. Relevant chapters, 1886-1929.

Liberalism, 1886-1900 4. Barker, Michael. Gladstone and Radicalism: The Reconstruction of Liberal Policy, 1885-94. New York1975. 5. Emy, H.V. Liberals, Radicals, and Social Politics, 1892-1914. Cambridge1973. 6. Freeden, Michael. The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform. New York1978.

Liberalism, 1900-1914 7. Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-1992. 4th ed., London, 1993. 8. Bernstein, George L. Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England. Boston, 1986. 9. Clarke, Peter F. Lancashire and the New Liberalism. Cambridge1971.Bernstein 10. Murray, Bruce. The People's Budget, 1909-10. Oxford1980. 11. Russell, A. K. Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906. Newton Abbot1973. 12. Self, Robert. The Evolution of the British Party System: 1885-1940: Longman, 2000.

The Rise of Labour and the Decline of the Liberal Party, 1914-24 13. 14. 15. 16.

McKibbin, Ross. The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-1924. New York1974. Morgan, K.O. The Age of Lloyd George. London1971. Morgan, K.O. Consensus and Disunity: The Lloyd George Coalition, 1918-1922. London1979. Tanner, Duncan. Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 17. Wilson, Trevor. The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935. London1966. 18. Pelling, Henry, The Origins of the Labour Party, 1880-1900. 2nd ed., Oxford, 1965. 19. John Turner, British Politics and the Great War: Coalition and Conflict, 1915-1918. New Haven, 1992.

Post-War British Politics General

1. Morgan, Kenneth O. Britain since 1945: The People's Peace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 2. Sked, Alan, and Chris Cook. Post-War Britain: A Political History. 4th ed: Penguin, 1993. 3. Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair. London: Macmillan, 1998. The Labour Governments, 1945-1951 4. Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour in Power, 1945-51. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. 5. Bullock, Alan. Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951. Vol. 3. London1983. 6. McCallum, Robert B., and Allison Readman. The British General Election of 1945. London1947. The Conservative Hegemony, 1951-64 7. Bogdanor, Vernon, and Robert Skidelsky, eds. Age of Affluence, 1951-1964. London, 1970. 8. McKenzie, Robert T., and Allan Silver. Angels in Marble: Working-Class Conservatives in Urban England. London1968. 9. Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001. 10. David Dutton, Anthony Eden: A Life and Reputation. London, Arnold, 1997. 11. Alastair Horne, Macmillan. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1988-89. 12. Saki Dockrill, Britain’s Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice between Empire and the World? 1945-68. New York: Palgrave, 2002. The Labour Party in Opposition and in Power, 1951-79 13. Jenkins, Roy. A Life at the Center: Memoirs of a Radical Reformer. New York1991. 14. Ponting, Clive. Breach of Promise: Labour in Power 1964-1970. London1989. 15. Brian Brivati, Hugh Gaitskell. London: Richard Cohen Books, 1997. 16. John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Thatcherism 17. Jenkins, Peter. Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era. Cambridge, MA1988. 18. Kavanagh, Dennis. Thatcherism and British Politics: The End of Conscensus? 2nd ed. Oxford1990.

19. Hugo Young, The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989. Post Thatcher 20. Butler, David, and Dennis Kavanagh. The British General Election of 1997: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. 21. Butler, David, and Dennis Kavanagh. The British General Election of 2001: Palgrave, 2002. 22. Vernon Bogdanor, Devolution in the United Kingdom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.