Ernest Barker

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Oliver Cromwell and the English People by Ernest Barker was first published as part of the Cambridge Miscellany series in 1937. It contains the text of a lecture delivered by the author before the Friedrich Sthamer-Gesellschaft in Hamburg in 1936. It is printed together with notes and an epilogue on 'The English Puritan Revolution and the German National Socialist Revolution'.

This 1948 collection contains eight essays by Sir Ernest Barker. All but one of these essays appeared for the first time in this volume. As to the title, Johnson defined 'civility' as 'the state of being civilised', and the title itself, Traditions of Civility, is quoted from Coventry Patmore, who uses the word in Johnson's sense. The book may be described as a series of individual studies in the history of culture and civilisation. The first five essays are united by the common theme of the legacy of Greece. The last three essays are independent; but the theme of tradition and the keynote of continuity are common to all.

Some of the topics: The System of Classes, General Relation of Society and State, Parliament and its Relation to the Cabinet, the Monarchy, English System of Law, Religion and the Churches in Britain, Education, Press and Broadcasting, the Arts, Sports, Various Forms of Public Social Service.