I. R. Christie

Ian Ralph Christie (Preston, Lancashire, 11 May 1919 – Poole, Dorset, 25 November 1998) was a British historian specialising in late 18th-century Britain. In 1983 he gave the Ford Lectures, on why Britain avoided revolution, subsequently published as Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 1984).^[1]

Works

• The End of North's ministry, 1780–82 (1958).
• Wilkes, Wyvill and Reform. The Parliamentary Reform Movement in British Politics, 1760–1785 (1962).
• Crisis of Empire: Great Britain and the American Colonies 1754-1783 (1966).
• Myth and Reality in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Politics, and Other Papers (1970).
• Empire or independence, 1760-1776: a British-American dialogue on the coming of the American Revolution, co-edited with Benjamin W. Labaree, (1976).
• ‘George III and the historians: thirty years on’, History, new ser., 71 (1986), pp. 205–21.
• ‘Party in Politics in the Age of Lord North's Administration’, Parliamentary History 6 (1987), pp. 47–68.
• ‘Conservatism and stability in British society’, in Mark Philp (ed.), The French Revolution and British Popular Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 169–187.

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