ABSTRACT
This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the Empire and of domestic Britain, published in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World series, as well as his pioneering psephological study of the 1880 General Election, the essays include analyses of Anglo-Irish relations, Florence Nightingale, Canada, muckrackers, the Primrose League and prisoners of war during World War II.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|28 pages
A party for ‘peers and parsons?’ 1
The social composition of the Irish Conservative party and its electoral consequences, 1852–68
chapter 8|17 pages
Experiences of British prisoners of war in the Far East
Death and their relatives at home from 1942
