David Cannadine | The New York Review of Books

The Once and Future Princess

January 11, 1996 issue

‘Cutting Classes’

April 8, 1993 issue

Cutting Classes

Class Formation and Urban-Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750–1850

by Theodore Koditschek

Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class, Leeds 1820–1850

by R.J. Morris

Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1840–1914

by Patrick Joyce

The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain, 1880–1950

by Ross McKibbin

December 17, 1992 issue

Letter

Patrick Joyce

‘Cutting Classes’

April 8, 1993 issue

The Making

December 19, 1991 issue

Through the Keyhole

A History of Private Life Vol. IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War

edited by Michelle Perrot, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

November 21, 1991 issue

Letter

E.P. Thompson

The Making

December 19, 1991 issue

Three Who Made a Revolution

March 7, 1991 issue

Never-Never Land

Victorian Things

by Asa Briggs

The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830–1900

by F.M.L. Thompson

The Rise of Professional Society: Britain since 1880

by Harold Perkin

February 15, 1990 issue

Winston Agonistes

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Volume II, Alone, 1932–1940

by William Manchester

Churchill's War: Volume I, The Struggle for Power

by David Irving

Winston S. Churchill Volume VIII, 'Never Despair,' 1945–1965

by Martin Gilbert

June 15, 1989 issue

The Unhappy Winner

Harold Macmillan: Vol. I, 1894-1956

by Alistair Horne

April 27, 1989 issue

The Secret House of Death

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England

by Olive Anderson

June 16, 1988 issue

Too Proud to Fight?

RAB: The Life of R.A. Butler

by Anthony Howard

December 17, 1987 issue

The Next Best Man

Anthony Eden

by Robert Rhodes James

October 22, 1987 issue

The Brass-Tacks Queen

Victoria: An Intimate Biography

by Stanley Weintraub

April 23, 1987 issue

The Merry Wives of Windsor

On July 29, 1981, a wedding took place in a large and well-known London church between two members of the English upper classes.

The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy

by John Pearson

June 12, 1986 issue

Spooky Business

Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community

by Christopher Andrew

March 27, 1986 issue

Brideshead Re-Revisited

The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting Washington

November 3, 1985 to March 16, 1986, National Gallery of Art,

The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting

edited by Gervase Jackson-Stops

The English Country House: A Grand Tour Book/Little, Brown

by Gervase Jackson-Stops and James Pipkin

December 19, 1985 issue

Masterpiece Theatre

Mountbatten

by Philip Ziegler

May 9, 1985 issue

Munich Man

“Chamberlain was variously described as having been ‘a good mayor of Birmingham in a lean year,’ with ‘a retail mind in a wholesale business,’ who looked ‘at affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.’ Nevertheless, he became prime minister in 1937, and in the following year went to see Hitler at Munich, dressed with inadvertent appropriateness like an undertaker.”

Neville Chamberlain Volume I: Pioneering and Reform, 1869–1929

by David Dilks

March 28, 1985 issue

No Entrance

An Open Elite? England 1540–1880

by Lawrence Stone and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone

December 20, 1984 issue