Jonathan Philip Parry, commonly referred to as Jon Parry, (born 1957) is professor of Modern British History at the

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and Fellow of Pembroke College. He has specialised in 19th and 20th century British political and

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and has developed a later interest in the relationship between Britain and the

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.Professor Jon Parry.
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in 1975 and subsequently became Fellow of that college before moving to Pembroke College in 1992. In 2009 he was appointed as a professor in the university's history faculty. Parry was for some time the Director of the Isaac Newton Trust, a post that he relinquished in 2015 when he took academic leave. He was President of Pembroke College in 2018-2019. A revised version of Parry's PhD thesis, which had been supervised by

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, was published in 1986 as ''Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party 1867-1875''. A review of this noted that Parry was from a similar school of thought as

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, another Petrean don of whom he later wrote various posthumous accounts. The scholarly literature on British historiography includes Parry as a leader of the Cambridge school of modern politics, as shown by Alex Middleton in 2021.Alex Middleton, Alex"‘High Politics’ and its Intellectual Contexts." ''Parliamentary History'' 40.1 (2021): 168-191
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Works

* * *''Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal party, 1867-1875'' (Cambridge, 1986) *''The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain'' (Yale 1993) * *''Parliament and the Church, 1529-1960'' (ed. with Stephen Taylor, 2000) * *''The impact of Napoleon III on British politics, 1851-1880'', ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' (2001) * *''The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, national identity and Europe 1830-1886'' (Cambridge, 2006) *''Benjamin Disraeli'' (Oxford, 2007) *''Liberalism and liberty'', in ''Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain'', ed. P. Mandler (Oxford, 2007) *''Whig monarchy, Whig nation: Crown, politics and representativeness, 1880-2000'', in ''The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the present'', ed. A. Olechnowicz (Cambridge, 2007) *''The decline of institutional reform in nineteenth-century Britain'', in ''Structures and Transformations in Modern British History'', ed. D . Feldman and J. Lawrence (Cambridge, 2011) *''Steam power and British influence in Baghdad, 1820-1860'', ''Historical Journal'' (March 2013)

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