Michael Bentley (historian)
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12 August 1948
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Jane Fisher(m. 1970; div. 1994)
Michael Bentley | |
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| Born | Michael John Bentley 12 August 1948 Rotherham, England |
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| Influences | Maurice Cowling |
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| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Late-modern British political history |
| School or tradition | Peterhouse school[1] |
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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]
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]
