Another plug - prepare to buy my new book!
August 23 2012
Picture: Bodleian Library
Not art history this, but history. Any readers who happen also to be interested in 19th Century British foreign policy (that's all of you? great!) may like to know about a new book of mine coming out later this year. It will be published by Cambridge University Press for The Royal Historical Society, and focuses on the governments of the 14th Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli (above). More details from the RHS website:
Forthcoming Fifth Series volumes in 2012-2013, Vol. 41.
Geoffrey Hicks, John Charmley, Bendor Grosvenor, eds., Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878
This volume publishes extracts from over 500 primary documents, with detailed introduction and thorough editorial commentary, relating to the foreign policy of a succession of British Conservative governments in the nineteenth century. It examines the three minority administrations of the fourteenth Earl of Derby (1852; 1858-9; 1866-8) and the two governments led by Benjamin Disraeli (1868; 1874-80). It concludes with the resignation of the fifteenth Earl of Derby as Foreign Secretary in 1878.
It's real hardcore history, full of fascinating documents and a blizzard of footnotes. Ten years in the making - not to be missed!
Update - a reader writes:
I hope your new book follows the proper rules of history: who did or said what is far less important than broad movements and conditions. Actually an archival source book is 'exquisite' beyond the dreams of elitism. A blizzard of footnotes? À la lanterne!
Replace the word 'said' with 'painted', and you have modern art history.
