W. A. Speck
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Arthur Speck was a British historian who specialised in late 17th and 18th-century British and American history. He was born in Bradford and was the son of a bookbinder. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School before winning a scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford, where he gained a BA in 1960 and a D.Phil. in 1966.
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- Stability and strife: England, 1714-1760 (1977) (89)
- Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 (1988) (40)
- Conflict in Society (1969) (28)
- The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the 45 (1981) (19)
- Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters (2006) (16)
- Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750–1850 – By Holger Hoock (2010) (16)
- Computer Analysis of Poll Books: an Initial Report (1970) (13)
- The divided society: parties and politics in England 1694-1716; (1967) (12)
- The Birth of Britain: A New Nation 1700 - 1710 (1994) (12)
- Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England 1680-1820: Ideology, Politics and Culture (1998) (12)
- The Origins of Political Stability: England, 1675-1725@@@The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675-1725@@@Tory & Whig: The Struggle in the Constituencies, 1701-1715 (1970) (11)
- Bernard Mandeville and the Middlesex Grand Jury (1978) (10)
- Eighteenth-century Britain (1993) (10)
- Computer Analysis of Poll Books: A Further Report (1975) (9)
- Society and literature in England, 1700-60 (1983) (8)
- Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture, 1681-1714 (2006) (8)
- History and Computing: Some Reflections on the Achievements of the Past Decade (1994) (8)
- Britain in the Age of Walpole (1987) (7)
- The Orangist Conspiracy against James II (1987) (7)
- The General Election of 1715 (1975) (7)
- A Concise History of Britain, 1707-1975 (1993) (7)
- A critical bibliography of Dr. Henry Sacheverell (1978) (6)
- The Current State of Sacheverell Scholarship (2012) (5)
- The Choice of a Speaker in 1705 (1964) (5)
- The divided society : party conflict in England, 1694-1716 (1967) (4)
- Politics, Finance and the People: Economical Reform in England in the Age of the American Revolution, 1770–92 By Earl A. Reitan (2008) (4)
- Political Propaganda in Augustan England (1972) (4)
- The Fall of Harley in 1708 Reconsidered (1965) (4)
- THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS IN EIGHTEENTH‐CENTURY ENGLAND (2008) (3)
- Clergymen and Conflict 1660–1763 (1983) (3)
- British America (1987) (3)
- Colonial America: From Jamestown to Yorktown (2003) (2)
- Review: The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers (1998) (2)
- The British Empire in America to 1750 (2002) (2)
- Mandeville and the Eutopia Seated in the Brain (1975) (2)
- The Middle Colonies (2002) (2)
- The Whig Schism under George I (1977) (2)
- SOCIAL STATUS IN LATE STUART ENGLAND (1966) (2)
- Northumberland Elections in the Eighteenth Century (1992) (2)
- Cassell's companion to eighteenth-century Britain (2001) (2)
- In No One's Shadow: British Politics in the Age of Anne and the Writing of the History of the House of Commons (2009) (2)
- The Glorious Revolution in England and America (2002) (2)
- A Concise History of Britain 1707–1975: Appendix: Monarchs and ministries, 1707–1976 (1993) (1)
- The Lower South (2002) (1)
- Re‐election on Taking Office, 1706–90 (1978) (1)
- The Examiner re‐examined (1993) (1)
- Robert Southey, Lord Macaulay and the Standard of Living Controversy (2001) (1)
- A court in exile. The Stuarts in France, 1689–1718. By Edward Corp. (with Edward Gregg, Howard Erskine-Hill and Geoffrey Scott.) Pp. xvi+386 incl. 25 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £55. 0 521 58462 0 (2005) (1)
- The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 1: 1684–1733 (Somerset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire) ed. by John Money (review) (2014) (1)
- The Journal of a Short Tour to the Lakes in 1822 by John May and the Story of the John Mays of Richmond and their Relationship with the Southey and Coleridge Families By Ian Broadway (2008) (1)
- Duke of York (2016) (1)
- The Letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765–1775 (2002) (1)
- Review: The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1993) (1)
- The Revolution of 1688 in the North of England (1989) (1)
- Robert Southey, Benjamin Disraeli and Young England (2010) (1)
- Byron and Disraeli: The Mediterranean Tours (2012) (1)
- II An Anonymous Parliamentary Diary, 1705–6 (1969) (0)
- Britain and the Atlantic World (2007) (0)
- The image of Tom (2017) (0)
- A Dictionary of British America, 1584-1783 (2007) (0)
- The French and Indian War (2002) (0)
- Robert Southey's Letters to Edward Hawke Locker (1999) (0)
- Adjustment to Empire, 1763–1770 (2002) (0)
- King William’s War and Queen Anne’s War (2002) (0)
- Anglo-Indian Relations (2002) (0)
- Recent Articles (1973) (0)
- A Handlist of British Parliamentary Poll Books (1986) (0)
- Recent Articles (2014) (0)
- Country and Court: England, 1658-1714.@@@Stability and Strife: England, 1714-1760. (1981) (0)
- 1688 and ALL THAT: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: ENGLAND'S ANCIEN REGIME? (2008) (0)
- Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia. P Thompson (2000) (0)
- The Structure of British Politics in the Mid‐Eighteenth Century (2008) (0)
- Savages within the Empire: Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain By Troy Bickham (2007) (0)
- Albion Ascendant. English History 1660-1815. F O'Gorman (1999) (0)
- Shorter notice. Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia. P Thompson (2000) (0)
- The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales, 1658-1667. Ronald HuttonSchemes and Undertakings: A Study of English Politics in the Seventeenth Century. Clayton Roberts (1988) (0)
- Review: Pope, Homer and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Classical Learning (1996) (0)
- Shorter notice. Dismembering the Body Politic. Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1640-1730. Paul D Halliday (1999) (0)
- Review: Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere (1995) (0)
- Shorter notice. The Writing of Urban Histories in 18th-Century England. R Sweet (1999) (0)
- Structures of Experience: History, Society and Personal Life in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel.@@@Society and Literature in England, 1700-60. (1985) (0)
- Review: Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (1992) (0)
- Shorter notice. England in the 1690s: Revolution, Religion and War. Craig Rose (2000) (0)
- Review: Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth Century Reader (1994) (0)
- BRACKLEY: A STUDY IN THE GROWTH OF OLIGARCHY (1975) (0)
- Nineteenth-century Britain (1993) (0)
- Bruce G. Tigger and Wilcomb E. Washburn (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: volume one; North America, part one (Cambridge University Press, 1996, £40), pp. 564. ISBN 0 521 57392. (1999) (0)
- From Baldwin to Attlee (1993) (0)
- A Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Legal Literature . Edited by J. N. Adams and G. Averley. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Avero Publications Ltd, 1982. Pp. xvi + 901. £220. (1983) (0)
- How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685–1735: The Evidence of Local Poll Books. Vol. 1: 1685–1715 (2008) (0)
- A Political Biography of Thomas Paine (2015) (0)
- OTHER REVIEWS (2008) (0)
- A Concise History of Britain 1707–1975: Guide to further reading (1993) (0)
- London politics, 1713-1717 (1981) (0)
- Twentieth-century Britain (1993) (0)
- A Concise History of Britain 1707–1975: From the second Reform Act to the Boer War (1993) (0)
- Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America ‐ By Kathleen Burk (2009) (0)
- A Political Biography of Thomas Paine by W. A. Speck (1970) (0)
- A Tribute to Roy Wolper, Editor Extraordinaire (2017) (0)
- British Society in the Era of Western Migration (2002) (0)
- Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian Edited by Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (2009) (0)
- Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1770–1832 (2016) (0)
- The Imperial Crisis: ’Tis time to part (2002) (0)
- Editing Robert Southey's Letters (2009) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- British America at the Accession of George III (2002) (0)
- Will the Real 18th Century stand up? (1991) (0)
- Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture 1714-1760 – By Hannah Smith (2008) (0)
- The Reliability of Sir John Reresby's ‘Memoirs’ and his account of the Oxford Parliament of 1681 (1989) (0)
- Swift (Routledge Revivals) (2014) (0)
- James and Ireland (2016) (0)
- The Political Imagination in History: Essays Concerning J. G. A. Pocock ed. by D. N. DeLuna (review) (2017) (0)
- The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems . By J. C. D. Clark. Cambridge: The University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 615. £37.50. (1983) (0)
- From the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the entry into the European Economic Community (1993) (0)
- Politics (2020) (0)
- Baxter Stephen B., editor. England's Rise to Greatness, 1660-1763. (Publications from the Clark Library professorship, 7.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1983. Pp. 380. $30.00. (1983) (0)
- The First Age of Party 1678-1714 (1996) (0)
- English Prints and Portraits 1600–1832 (1987) (0)
- English Society 1688–1832 . By J. C. D. Clark. (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics.) 1985. Pp. xiii + 439. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. £30 (cloth), £10.95 (paper). 0 521 30922 0. 0 521 31383 X. (1986) (0)
- From the Boer War to the first Labour government (1993) (0)
- A Concise History of Britain 1707–1975: From the Anglo-Scottish Union to the Union with Ireland (1993) (0)
- ‘Salutary Neglect’? British Colonial Policy under the First Two Georges (2002) (0)
- His nights among the dead were passed: Robert Southey’s Dreams (2016) (0)
- James II 1685-1686 (2016) (0)
- The West Indies (2002) (0)
- From Pitt to Palmerston (1993) (0)
- English America and Imperial Inconstancy: The Rise of Provincial Autonomy, 1696–1713. By J. M. Sosin. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xii + 287 pp. $26.50.) (1986) (0)
- ‘The Times that Tried Men’s Souls’ (2015) (0)
- David W. Hayton (2014) (0)
- Inside the beehive (1995) (0)
- Review: Culture, Politics and Society in Britain 1600–1800 (1992) (0)
- Revolution to Robinocracy (1986) (0)
- Historical computation Noticeboard (1984) (0)
- Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English radicalism in context . Edited by Ariel Hessayon and David Finnegan. Pp. xiv+271 incl. 1 plate. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. £65. 978 7546 6905 0 (2012) (0)
- Parliamentary Reform, 1640-1832. John Cannon (1974) (0)
- The Nation's Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery ‐ By Jonathan Conlin (2009) (0)
- Time and the Shape of History ‐ By Penelope J. Corfield (2009) (0)
- Book Review (2004) (0)
- Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms, 1660–1685Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685–1720 (2006) (0)
- The A to Z of Georgian London with introductory notes by R. Hyde. Published by Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent in association with Guildhall Library London, 1981. viii + 88 pp. 1 plate. Maps. No price given. (1984) (0)
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