Paul Adelman is a British historian who specialises in British

political history Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders. It is closely related to other fields of history, including diplomatic history, constitutional history, socia ...

of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Adelman has written four volumes in the popular Seminar Studies in History series, intended for undergraduate and younger study, and two in the Access to History series from Hodder intended for pre-university study. Adelman has also written for a number of journals, including ''

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''. He is a former school teacher and reader in history at

Kingston University , mottoeng = "Through Learning We Progress" , established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute , type = Public , endowment = £2.3 m (2015) , ...

Selected publications

*''Gladstone, Disraeli and Later Victorian Politics''.

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, 1970. (Seminar Studies in History) (2nd edn 1983, 3rd 1997) *''The Rise of the Labour Party 1880-1945''. Longman, 1972. (Seminar Studies in History) *''The Decline of the Liberal Party, 1910-31''. Longman, 1982. (Seminar Studies in History) *''Victorian radicalism: The middle-class experience 1830-1914''. Longman, 1984. (Studies in Modern History) *''British Politics in the 1930s and 1940s''.

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, 1987. ( Cambridge Topics in History) *''Peel and the Conservative Party 1830-1850''. Longman, 1989. (Seminar Studies In History) *''Britain: Domestic Politics, 1939-64''. Hodder Education, 1994. (Access to History) *''Great Britain and the Irish Question 1798-1921''. Hodder Education, 2005. (With Robert Pearce) (Access to History)Access To History: Great Britain and the Irish Question 1798-1921 Third Edition.
Hodder Education. Retrieved 11 June 2015.

References

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