Research Interests

• Modern British History

Courses Taught

• Fictions of Empire
• Modern Britain
• Exploring Modern Britain through Documents and Images held at Stanford
• History through the Arts: Britain in the First Half of the 20th century.

Publications

• Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 189Os (1964)
• England Since 1867: Continuity and Change (1973)
• Gladstone: A Progress in Politics(1979)
• William Morris (1983)
• Redesigning the World, William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts.(1985)
• 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)
• Journey to the Frontier: Julian Bell and John Cornford: Their lives and the 1930s, with William Abrahams (1966)
• The Unknown Orwell, with William Abrahams (1972)
• Orwell: The Transformation, with William Abrahams (1979)
• London's Burning, with William Abrahams (1994)
• The Left and War: The British Labour Party and the First World War, Editor (1969)
• John Morley Nineteenth Century Essays, Editor (197O)
• Winston Churchill: A Profile, Editor (1973)
• The Victorian Revolution, Editor (1973)
• On Nineteen Eighty-Four, Editor (1983)
• The Aesthetic Movement and the Art and Crafts Movement, Editor, with Rodney Shewan. A reprint series of 73 volumes (1976, 1979)
• Conference on British Studies Biographical series, Editor, 6 vols.(1968-1974)
• Modern British History Series, Editor, 18 vol. with Leslie Hume (1982)
• Modern European History Series, Editor, 47 vols. (1987-1992)
• The First Day of the Blitz (2007)
• Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War (2012)

Awards

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• DeLancey K. Jay Prize, Harvard, 1961
• Guggenheim Fellowships, 1966-67, 1973-74
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 1978-79
• National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowships, 1983, 1998-99
• Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, 1988-89
• Fellow, Royal Historical Society