Paul Smith (born 1937) is a British historian of Victorian England.
In 1972 Smith edited a collection of
Lord Salisbury's articles that he had written for the ''
Quarterly Review''.
Vernon Bogdanor 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).
Notes
External links
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History
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1937 births
Living people
20th-century British historians
20th-century British male writers
Historians of England