Author: Richard Davenport-HinesUnited Kingdom, Great Britain | 20th century | 21st century | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 | Social & cultural history | Social issues & processesPublished on 20th June 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 416 pages 240mm x 159mm | 270g History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance.This is an exciting new historiographical study from the much-acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines. It shows the evolution of historical ideas, purposes and methods in a clerisy that has enjoyed conspicuous influence in England for six centuries. There was growing recognition, in Tudor England, that the study of history especially improved the minds, enlarged the imaginations and broadened the vicarious experience of princes, noblemen and administrators. History showed, by precept and example, good government and bad, virtue and vice in rulers, and the reasons for the success or failure of states. History in the House looks at the temperaments, ideas, imagination, prejudices, intentions and influence of a select and self-regulated group of men who taught modern history at Christ Church: Frederick York Powell, Arthur Hassall, Keith Feiling, J. C. Masterman, Roy Harrod, Patrick Gordon Walker, and Hugh Trevor-Roper (a Victorian radical, a staunch legitimist of the protestant settlement, a conservative, a Whig, a Keynesian, a socialist, and a contrarian).
