Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Political Themes and Contexts (original) (raw)

Contemporary Politics

• Macaulay's complex relation with Bentham and Utilitarianism
• Chronology
• Mrs. S. C. Hall on Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Macaulay on the Purposes of Government and Its Relation to Religion
• Macaulay’s Urges Jewish Emancipation in “Civil Disabilities of the Jews” (complete text)
• “A government which attempts more than it ought will perform less”: The Law of Unintended Political Consequences

Macaulay and the British Empire

• Macaulay's Minute and the Beginnings of Bilingualism in English in India
• British India
• The British Empire (Homepage/Sitemap)
• Victorian Political History (Homepage/Sitemap)

Macaulay on Pre-Victorian British Political History

• Cromwell and Napoleon as Military and Political Leaders
• Cromwell's Army
• The Puritans in Power and Their Abuses during the Interregnum
• Taxation and National Revenue after the Restoration
• James I
• James I and the Doctrine of The Divine Right of Kings
• The Death of Charles I Transformed Him a Political Force
• James II and Seventeenth-Century Anti-Catholicism
• The Peculiar Nature of the Glorious Revolution
• Political Attitudes and Allegiances of the Country Gentleman
• The Improvements in Britain’s Army under Charles II
• The Terrible Condition of Britain’s Navy in the Late Seventeenth Century
• Corruption and Seventeenth-Century Political Leadership

Related material

• Oliver Cromwell
• The Glorious Revolution of 1660
• Restoration

Victorian Web Authors T. B. Macaulay

Last modified 22 November 2020