Paul Smith (historian)

Paul Smith (born 1937) is a British historian of Victorian England.

In 1972 Smith edited a collection of Lord Salisbury's articles that he had written for the Quarterly Review. Vernon Bogdanor claimed that Smith's lengthy introduction explaining Salisbury's politics was "extremely perceptive": "This is the best thing that has been written on Salisbury since Lady Gwendolen Cecil's unfinished biography".[1] University of Illinois historian Walter L. Arnstein called Smith's introduction "a gem, judicious, well-reasoned, persuasive, brilliant".[2]

Works
  • Disraelian Conservatism and Social Reform (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967).
  • (editor), Lord Salisbury on Politics: A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).
  • Disraeli: A Brief Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
  • (editor), Government and the Armed Forces in Britain, 1856-1990 (London: The Hambledon Press, 1996).
  • (editor, with Charles Richmond), The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818–1851 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  • (editor), Bagehot: The English Constitution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Notes
  1. Vernon Bogdanor, ‘Review: Lord Salisbury on Politics: A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883 by Paul Smith’, History, Vol. 58, No. 193 (1973), p. 313.
  2. Walter L. Arnstein, ‘Review: Lord Salisbury on Politics: A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883 by Paul Smith’, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), p. 508.
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