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A multi-faceted exploration of a unique academic institution and its relations with the wider world, in a key phase of its development, including major figures such as the architect and polymath Christopher Wren and the great 18th-century lawyer William Blackstone.

A collection of studies of the ways in which the younger members of All Souls engaged with the wider worlds of politics, public administration, the law, diplomacy, running the British empire, formulating foreign policy, banking, journalism, and the 'republic of letters', covering the era from the First World War to the Suez crisis.

An original study of religion in late Victorian Britain and its apparent twentieth-century decline.

An important 2010 account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of modern English society.

This innovative book provides an essential historical perspective on the boundaries of the state in modern Britain. At a time of intense debate about the state, the writers of these interdisciplinary studies are unimpressed by the apparent 'rise' of the stage before 1979 and its supposed 'decline' in the wake of Thatcherism.

An important 2010 account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of modern English society.

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