Public life and public lives : politics and religion in modern British history : essays in honour of Richard W. Davis / edited by Nancy LoPatin-Lummis.

"This book issue is also Parliamentary history, volume 27, part 1"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Bibliography of the publications of Richard W. Davis": pages [xii]-xv.

Bibliography of the Publications of Richard W. Davis / Edited by Nancy Lopatin-Lummis -- A Public Life: Richard W. Davis, Historian, Mentor, Gentleman / Nancy Lopatin-Lummis and Denys Leighton -- Introduction / Nancy Lopatin-Lummis -- Public Life -- Managers and Agents: Conservative Party Organisation in the 1850s / Edwin Jaggard -- 'Underhand Dealings with the Papal Authorities': Disraeli and the Liberal Conspiracy to Disestablish the Irish Church / Padraic C. Kennedy -- A Usable Past: History and the Politics of National Identity in Late Victorian England / Richard A. Cosgrove -- T. H. Green and the Dissidence of Dissent: On Religion and National Character in Nineteenth-Century England / Denys P. Leighton -- Een-Gonyama Gonyama!: Zulu Origins of the Boy Scout Movement and the Africanisation of Imperial Britain / Timothy Parsons -- 'The Cow is Still the Most Important Figure in Indian Politics!': Religion, Imperial Culture and the Shaping of Indian Political Reform in the 1930s / Andrew Muldoon -- Public Lives -- Sir John Coxe Hippisley: That 'Busy Man' in the Cause of Catholic Emancipation / Susan Mitchell Sommers -- 'With All My Oldest and Native Friends'. Joseph Parkes: Warwickshire Solicitor and Electoral Agent in the Age of Reform / Nancy Lopatin-Lummis -- 'Meddling with Polities': The Political Role of Foreign Missions in the Early Nineteenth Century / Michael A. Rutz -- After Emancipation: Thomas Fowell Buxton and Evangelical Politics in the 1830s / Richard R. Follett -- A Provincial Minister in Politics: Henry W. Crosskey / R. K. Webb -- The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Episcopal Bench, and the Passage of the 1911 Parliament Act / Derek W. Blakeley -- Political Ideas and Audiences: The Case of Arthur Bryant and the Illustrated London News, 1936-1945 / Reba N. Soffer.

"Richard W. Davis, a self-described political historian, devoted his career to understanding, in his own words, 'the play of power and influence and how they are mobilized to get things done'. The central question he asked and those repeated by the contributors in this volume to honour him are straightforward: how did individuals envision the public good in modern Britain and how, through religious and moral beliefs, coupled with wisdom and political savvy, could they improve the public good through the ever-changing 19th century political institutions? The essays in this volume range from studies of local electoral politics and parliamentary reform campaign to national political party organization, high politics and the role religion and empire played in the creation of national policy. They also examine the influence of individuals on the political process through their professional work in historical and philosophical writing, journalism and missionary work at home and abroad. They bring new original research in the area of modern British political history together in Parliamentary History."--BOOK JACKET.