Reform and Its Complexities in Modern Britain

Bruce Kinzer is emeritus professor of history at Kenyon College. Most of his scholarship has focused on J.S. Mill. He is the author of J.S. Mill Revisited: Biographical and Political Explorations (2007), Englands Disgrace? J.S. Mill and the Irish Question (2001), and co-author, with Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, of A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865—1868 (1992). He joined John M. Robson in co-editing Mills Public and Parliamentary Speeches, volumes 289 of Mills Collected Works (1988). He also wrote The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics (1982). Molly Baer Kramer is an independent scholar and works at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She was a Rhodes Scholar and completed her DPhil A More Humane Society: Animal Welfare and Human Nature in England, 1950—1976 at Wadham College, Oxford, with Brian Harrison as supervisor. She is writing a comparative history of the British and American animal protection movements after the Second World War. Richard Trainor, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford since 2014, and a Pro Vice Chancellor since 2016, chaired Oxfords Conference of Colleges 2017—19. He was Principal of Kings College London 2004—14, and President of Universities UK 2007—9. Educated at Brown, Princeton, and Oxford (where his DPhil thesis was supervised by Brian Harrison), he held appointments at Glasgow (professor of social history, dean and vice principal) and Greenwich (vice chancellor) Universities. He was President of the Economic History Society 2013—16 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His published work has focused on the social history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, especially the urban middle class, its elites, and their involvement in universities.

Keith Thomas: Foreword: Sir Brian Harrison
Bruce Kinzer, Molly Baer Kramer, and Richard Trainor: Preface
Bruce Kinzer: Introduction
1: Martin Ceadel: Instruments of Reform: Political Parties, Pressure Groups, and their Interrelationship in Modern Britain
2: Joanna Innes: Seeing Like a Surveyor: Imagining Rural Reform in the Early Nineteenth-Century UK
3: Bruce Kinzer: J.S. Mill and Protestant Nonconformity
4: Richard Trainor: Another Look at Victorian University Reform: The Case of Exeter College Oxford
5: David Cannadine: Inexhaustible Vicissitudes: The DNB, OUP and the ODNB, from Sir Leslie Stephen to Sir Brian Harrison
6: Lawrence Goldman: Britain in the 1880s: The Industrial Remuneration Conference of 1885
7: Ross McKibbin: J.B. Mays and Juvenile Delinquency
8: Molly Baer Kramer: Pressure from Within: Internecine Conflict in the English Animal Protection Movement, 1950-1975
9: Duncan Sutherland: Ladies in a Lords' House: Women in the House of Lords Since 1958
10: Alex May: 'An Evil Document': The Reform of Professional Footballers' Contracts in England and Wales
11: Alvin Jackson: Why did Wales Stay in the Union in the Early 20th century?
Bruce Kinzer, Molly Baer Kramer, and Richard Trainor: The Publications of Brian Harrison