David Steele (historian)

David Steele (1934 – 17 June 2019) was a British historian at the University of Leeds who focused on nineteenth-century British political history.[1]

Academic career

Steele taught briefly at University College Dublin before becoming a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Leeds. He remained at Leeds for 34 years until his retirement in 1999.[1]

Steele's 1974 work on the Irish Land Acts, Irish Land and British Politics, grew out of his doctoral thesis.[1] Michael Bentley ranked Steele's 1999 biography of Lord Salisbury with Andrew Roberts's work as the best guides to Salisbury's life.[2] G. R. Searle said Steele's biography "brings out [Salisbury's] progressive impulses".[3]

Selected publications

  • Irish Land and British Politics: Tenant-Right and Nationality, 1865–1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974). ISBN 0521204216
  • Palmerston and Liberalism, 1855–1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). ISBN 0521400457
  • Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography (London: University College London Press, 1999). ISBN 1857283260

References

  1. ^ a b c 'Dr David Steele' (2 July 2019), University of Leeds website. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  2. ^ Michael Bentley, Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 325.
  3. ^ G. R. Searle, A New England? Peace and War, 1886–1918 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), p. 874.


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