Michael Bentley | |
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Born | Michael John Bentley 12 August 1948 Rotherham, England |
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Influences | Maurice Cowling |
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Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Late-modern British political history |
School or tradition | Peterhouse school[1] |
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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]