A01=Laura Trevelyan
Author_Laura Trevelyan
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NHTB
Category=NL-HB
Category=NL-WQ
Category=WQY
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
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Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=216
IMPN=Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN13=9781350154537
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20191212
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Subject=History
Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
WMM=138
Product details
- ISBN 9781350154537
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"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. Trevelyan. The Trevelyans are unique in British social and political history: a family which for several generations dedicated themselves to the 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 self-regarding, they have nonetheless left their mark on our past. This engaging history dispassionately explores the lives and achievements of this unique family and the part they played in shaping the history of Great Britain. From their inauspicious beginnings in a small dwelling in Cornwall to the present day, some Trevelyans have been famous and distinguished, others less so, but for a hundred years from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century family members from Lord Macaulay to G.M. Trevelyan contributed to both the writing and the making of history. This book is primarily the tale of the five men who flourished during this period - Charles Edward, George Otto, Charles Philips, George Macaulay and Humphry Trevelyan - and the clever and formidable women they married. Including many vivid portraits of the most influential members of this remarkable family, The Trevelyans casts light on the period of enormous social and cultural change in which they lived and examines why they chose not to simply exploit their position as landed gentry but instead to take their place at the centre of scholarship and politics.
