From 1977 to 1995 Bentley taught history at Sheffield. He then moved to the University of St Andrews,where he was appointed Professor of Modern History;he is now Emeritus. As of 2021,he is Senior Research Fellow and Stipendiary Lecturer in History at St Hugh's College,Oxford.[6] In 2011 he was made a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[3]
Critical reaction
Boyd Hilton has called Bentley's Politics Without Democracy 1815–1914 "a wonderfully 'inside' account of life at the top",[7] whilst K. Theodore Hoppen claims the book "provides an interesting (if allusive) study of attitudes".[8]
High and Low Politics in Modern Britain:Ten Studies (edited,with John Stevenson;1983).
Politics Without Democracy,1815–1914 (1984,1996)
The Climax of Liberal Politics (1987)
Companion to Historiography (1997)
Modern Historiography:An Introduction (1998)
Lord Salisbury's World (2001)
Modernizing England's Past:English Historiography in the Age of Modernism,1870–1970 (The Wiles Lectures) (2006)
The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield:History,Science and God (2011)
References
↑ Reba Soffer (2008). History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: The Great War to Thatcher and Reagan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.181. ISBN978-0-19-920811-1.
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