The Greville Memoirs
A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria

These fascinating and revealing political and social diaries cover English history from the Regency to the Crimean War.

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (Author), Henry Reeve (Edited by)

9781108030182, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

398 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 kg

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865) was one of the most important English political and social diarists. Clerk to the Privy Council for over forty years, he mixed with all the great political names of the day, including Wellington, Melbourne, Palmerston and Peel. Greville was fascinated by people, and a great collector of information, believing that 'there is always something to be learned from everybody if you touch them on the points they know'. Greville always intended his diaries to be published after his death. They appeared in eight volumes between 1874 and 1887, and form an important historical source for the first half of the nineteenth century. Volume 8 includes the conclusion of the Crimean War and subsequent peace treaty, the Indian Mutiny and siege of Lucknow, the formation of the Liberal Party in 1859, and relations with Napoleon III.

11. France and Prussia
12. Lord Clarendon's favourable view of the peace
13. State of England after the war
14. Results of the elections
15. Opening of the Session
16. The second Derby administration
17. Lord John Russell and Lord Stanley
18. The Government determine to dissolve the Parliament
19. Prospects of the Government and of the Opposition
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]