Michael Bentley (historian)

Michael Bentley
Born
Michael John Bentley

(1948-08-12) 12 August 1948 (age 76)
Rotherham, England
Spouses
  • Jane Fisher
    (m. 1970; div. 1994)
  • (m. 2002)
Academic background
Alma mater
InfluencesMaurice Cowling
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineLate-modern British political history
School or traditionPeterhouse school[1]
Institutions

Michael John Bentley FRHistS (born 12 August 1948)[2] is an English historian of British politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews[3] and is currently Senior Research Fellow in History at St Hugh's College, Oxford.[4] He is the biographer of the historian Herbert Butterfield, a former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.[5]

  1. ^ Reba Soffer (2008). History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: The Great War to Thatcher and Reagan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-19-920811-1.
  2. ^ 'BENTLEY, Michael (John) 1948-'. encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Michael John Bentley". University of St Andrews - Research at St Andrews. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  4. ^ 'Professor Michael Bentley'. St Hugh's College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  5. ^ Haslam, Jonathan (15 July 2011). "The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 May 2024.