Reform and Its Complexities in Modern Britain
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The essays in this volume span the era of British history from 1780 to the present that has engrossed the attention of Brian Harrison in a career of over fifty years. In keeping with his diverse interests, they vary widely in subject matter. Yet each contributes, in some fashion, to an appreciation of the complexities of reform in modern Britain.

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The essays in this volume span the era of British history from 1780 to the present that has engrossed the attention of Brian Harrison in a career of over fifty years. In keeping with his diverse interests, they vary widely in subject matter. Yet each contributes, in some fashion, to an appreciation of the complexities of reform in modern Britain.
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Bruce Kinzer is emeritus professor of history at Kenyon College. Most of his scholarship has focused on J.S. Mill. He is the author of J.S. Mill Revisited: Biographical and Political Explorations (2007), Englands Disgrace? J.S. Mill and the Irish Question (2001), and co-author, with Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, of A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868 (1992). He joined John M. Robson in co-editing Mills Public and Parliamentary Speeches, volumes 289 of Mills Collected Works (1988). He also wrote The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics (1982). Molly Baer Kramer is an independent scholar and works at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She was a Rhodes Scholar and completed her DPhil A More Humane Society: Animal Welfare and Human Nature in England, 1950-1976 at Wadham College, Oxford, with Brian Harrison as supervisor. She is writing a comparative history of the British and American animal protection movements after the Second World War. Richard Trainor, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford since 2014, and a Pro Vice Chancellor since 2016, chaired Oxfords Conference of Colleges 2017-19. He was Principal of Kings College London 2004-14, and President of Universities UK 2007-9. Educated at Brown, Princeton, and Oxford (where his DPhil thesis was supervised by Brian Harrison), he held appointments at Glasgow (professor of social history, dean and vice principal) and Greenwich (vice chancellor) Universities. He was President of the Economic History Society 2013-16 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His published work has focused on the social history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, especially the urban middle class, its elites, and their involvement in universities.