Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain
Edited by P.J. Waller
- Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain
Edited by P.J. Waller - Wheatsheaf Books, 1987 – xx+236pp - £30
This is a highly presentable volume of essays. In fact they have been presented by a group of his most distinguished pupils to A.F. Thompson. He has, of course, long presided over an active body of research students in Oxford who, in successive waves, have helped put the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain upon a proper professional footing. In a graceful and illuminating preface, C.S.L. Davies and L.G. Mitchell offer an appreciation of Pat Thompson – it seems pedantic rather than disrespectful to refer to him otherwise – which identifies his legacy in the propagation of a quizzical style not the imposition of an orthodoxy.
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