History Today, December 1st, 1993
MARY KINGSLEY: IMPERIAL
ADVENTURESS
Dea Birkett
Macmillan Press
xxvi+213 pp. 25 pounds
Whatever damage she may have done to the long-term future of universities in general and traditional arts disciplines in particular Margaret Thatcher has certainly had a stimulating effect on the academic pursuit of history in Britain. Specifically, her much vaunted crusade to revive Victorian values has given a new vigour and relevance to nineteenth-century studies and has directly inspired a number of important conferences and publications.
The joint symposium held by the British Academy and the Ro...
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