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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818208903321

Autore

Trevelyan Laura

Titolo

A very British family : the Trevelyans and their world / / Laura Trevelyan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-85773-363-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 p.)

Disciplina

929.20942

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; About the Author; Dedication Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 A Short Family History; 2 The Civil Service Pharisee; 3 The Radical Aristocrat; 4 The Romantic Crusader; 5 Clio's Disciple; 6 The Epigonic Generation; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the "right people".The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve it.''G. M. TrevelyanThe Trevelyans are unique in British social and political history: a family that for several generations dedicated themselves tothe service and chronicling of their country, from the radical, reforming civil servant Charles Edward Trevelyan to the historian G. M. Trevelyan. Often eccentric, priggish, high-minded and utterly s