Acton and History

This is a collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the distinguished Victorian historian and founder of The Cambridge Modern History. Some of the pieces are no longer readily available, while one has never before appeared in English. All have been revised, sometimes extensively. This book explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies. Professor Chadwick, himself a former holder of Acton's Regius Chair, is the leading senior authority both on Acton and on matters of church and state in the nineteenth century.

• A collection of the greatest possible elegance and scholarly distinction by a master historian
• Makes a major contribution to the intellectual history of the Victorian age, and to our knowledge of figures such as Gladstone and Newman
• Written in a completely accessible style, which will appeal to anyone interested in the mind of the Victorian age