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Michael Bentley
FRHistS
Michael Bentley FRHistS
Born	Michael John Bentley; 12 August 1948 (age 76); Rotherham, England
Spouses	Jane Fisher (m. 1970; div. 1994); Sarah Foot (m. 2002);
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Sheffield; St John's College, Cambridge;
Influences	Maurice Cowling
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Late-modern British political history
School or tradition	Peterhouse school
Institutions	University of Sheffield; University of St Andrews; St Hugh's College, Oxford;

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]

Early life and career

Bentley was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 1948, the son of Peter and Jessie Bentley. He attended the University of Sheffield, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1969, before proceeding to postgraduate study at St John's College, Cambridge.^[2]

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]

Personal life

Bentley is married to the historian Sarah Foot.^[9]

Works

The Liberal Mind, 1914–1929 (1977)
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. ISBN 978-0-19-920811-1.
^ ^a ^b 'BENTLEY, Michael (John) 1948-'. encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Michael John Bentley". University of St Andrews - Research at St Andrews. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
^ 'Professor Michael Bentley'. St Hugh's College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
^ 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.
^ 'Professor Michael Bentley'. St Hugh's College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
^ Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783–1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 705.
^ K. Theodore Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation. 1846–1886 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), p. 726.
^ "Foot, Rev. Canon Prof. Sarah Rosamund Irvine, (born 23 Feb. 1961), Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Oxford, since 2007". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2021.