Reform and Its Complexities in Modern Britain Essays Inspired by Sir Brian Harrison

by Kinzer, Bruce; Kramer, Molly Baer; Trainor, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780192863423
• ISBN10: 0192863428
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-10-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Bruce Kinzer, Emeritus Professor of History, Kenyon College,Molly Baer Kramer, Staff member and adjunct instructor, Portland State University,Richard Trainor, Rector, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Bruce Kinzer arrived at Kenyon College in 2000. His Previous posts included four years as a post-doctoral fellow on the John Stuart Mill Project at the University of Toronto, four years in McMaster University's History Department, and sixteen years in the History Department of the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington. He did a four-year stint as department chair in Wilmington before doing the same at Kenyon. He has been a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College Oxford and Wolfson College Cambridge. His work as a publishing scholar has focused chiefly on the political thought and
activity of J.S. Mill.

Molly Baer Kramer is a faculty projects manager and adjunct instructor at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She was a Rhodes Scholar in 1992 and matriculated at Oxford in 1993. She completed her DPhil 'A More Humane Society': Animal Welfare and Human Nature in England, 1950-1976 at
Wadham College, Oxford, with Brian Harrison as supervisor, in 2016. She has accrued decades of experience working in and with NGOs, primarily in nature conservation, as a manager, fundraiser, and consultant. She is currently working on a comparative history of the British and American animal
protection movements after the Second World War.

Richard Trainor has been Rector of Exeter College, Oxford since 2014, and a PVC since 2016; he also chaired Oxford's Conference of Colleges 2017-19. He was Principal of King's College London 2004-14, and President of Universities UK 2007-9. Educated at Brown, Princeton, and Oxford, he held
appointments at Glasgow (professor of social history, dean, and vice principal) and Greenwich (vice chancellor) Universities. Economic History Society President 2013-16, he is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His published work has focused on the social history of nineteenth and twentieth
century Britain, especially the urban middle class, its elites, and their involvement in universities.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Sir Brian Harrison, Keith Thomas
Preface, Bruce Kinzer, Molly Baer Kramer, and Richard Trainor
Introduction, Bruce Kinzer
1. Instruments of Reform: Political Parties, Pressure Groups, and their Interrelationship in Modern Britain, Martin Ceadel
2. Seeing Like a Surveyor: Imagining Rural Reform in the Early Nineteenth-Century UK, Joanna Innes
3. J.S. Mill and Protestant Nonconformity, Bruce Kinzer
4. Another Look at Victorian University Reform: The Case of Exeter College Oxford, Richard Trainor
5. Inexhaustible Vicissitudes: The DNB, OUP and the ODNB, from Sir Leslie Stephen to Sir Brian Harrison, David Cannadine
6. Britain in the 1880s: The Industrial Remuneration Conference of 1885, Lawrence Goldman
7. J.B. Mays and Juvenile Delinquency, Ross McKibbin
8. Pressure from Within: Internecine Conflict in the English Animal Protection Movement, 1950-1975, Molly Baer Kramer
9. Ladies in a Lords' House: Women in the House of Lords Since 1958, Duncan Sutherland
10. 'An Evil Document': The Reform of Professional Footballers' Contracts in England and Wales, Alex May
11. Why did Wales Stay in the Union in the Early 20th century?, Alvin Jackson
The Publications of Brian Harrison, Bruce Kinzer, Molly Baer Kramer, and Richard Trainor