Paul Smith (born 1937) is a British historian of Victorian England. In 1972 Smith edited a collection of

Lord Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen y ...

's articles that he had written for the ''

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said that Smith's lengthy introduction explaining Salisbury's politics was "extremely perceptive ... This is the best thing that has been written on Salisbury since Lady Gwendolen Cecil's unfinished biography".

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historian Walter L. Arnstein called Smith's introduction "a gem, judicious, well-reasoned, persuasive, ndbrilliant".Walter L. Arnstein, ‘Review: Lord Salisbury on Politics: A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883 by Paul Smith’, ''The Journal of Modern History'', Vol. 45, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), p. 508.

Works

*''Disraelian Conservatism and Social Reform'' (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967). *(editor), ''Lord Salisbury on Politics: A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972). *''Disraeli: A Brief Life'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). *(editor), ''Government and the Armed Forces in Britain, 1856-1990'' (London: The Hambledon Press, 1996). *(editor, with Charles Richmond), ''The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818–1851'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). *(editor), ''Bagehot: The English Constitution'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

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