About Peter Stansky
Born 1932. Peter Stansky is an American historian.
Peter David Lyman Stansky (born January 18, 1932) is an American historian specializing in modern British history.
Works
Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s (1964) Journey to the Frontier: Julian Bell and John Cornford: Their lives and the 1930s, with William Abrahams (1966) Conference on British Studies Biographical series, editor, 6 vols.(1968–1974) The Left and War: The British Labour Party and the First World War, editor (1969) John Morley Nineteenth Century Essays, editor (1970) The Unknown Orwell, with William Abrahams (1972) Winston Churchill: A Profile, editor (1973) The Victorian Revolution, editor (1973) England Since 1867: Continuity and Change (1973) The Aesthetic Movement and the Art and Crafts Movement, editor, with Rodney Shewan. A reprint series of 73 volumes (1976, 1979) Orwell: The Transformation, with William Abrahams (1979) Gladstone: A Progress in Politics (1979) Modern British History Series, editor, 18 vol. with Leslie Hume (1982) William Morris (1983) On Nineteen Eighty-Four, editor (1983) Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts (1985) Modern European History Series, editor, 47 vols. (1987–1992) London's Burning, with William Abrahams (1994) On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World (1996) Another Book that Never Was (1998) From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper (1999) includes bibliography of writings 1954–1998 Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil (2003) The First Day of the Blitz (2007) Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War (2012) Edward Upward: Art and Life (2016) ‘’The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War’’ (2023)
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American historian
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Peter Stansky was born on 18 January 1932 in New York City.
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