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Trevelyan Papers
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The Irish Crisis
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A Very British Family
It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the “right people”.The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve it.' G. M. Trevelyan The Trevelyans are unique in British social and political history: a family that for several generations dedicated themselves to the service and chronicling of their country, from the radical, reforming civil servant Charles Edward Trevelyan to the historian G. M. Trevelyan. Often eccentric, priggish, high-minded and utterly self-regarding, they have nonetheless left their mark on our past. This engaging history dispassionately explores the lives and achievements of this unique family and the part they played in shaping the history of Great Britain.
The Irish crisis
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The India We Left: Charles Trevelyan, 1826-65, Humphrey Trevelyan, 1929-47
Lord Trevelyan`S New Book Describes The Human Scene Of British And Indians In India In The Mid-Nineteenth Century And In The Twilight Of Empire, Through The Experiences Of Two Members Of The Same Family.
The Great Hunger
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.
The Great Irish Famine
The Great Irish Famine tells of the last great famine in European history. First-hand accounts and writings by four contemporary real people are used to give a complete and personal picture of the historic tragedy.
Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine
"Charles Trevelyan, the assistant secretary to the Treasury during the Famine years, has received the bulk of the blame for the government's parsimonious response to the catastrophe. This book examines history's condemnation of Trevelyan. It reveals how, and why, he came to be demonized as the architect of policies aimed - according to some commentators - at the deliberate depopulation of Ireland." "Drawing extensively on Trevelyan's original correspondence and also on that of his political masters, his colleagues, subordinates and others in the field, Robin Haines restores the portrait of a dedicated civil servant, an opinionated man caught up in the tensions of Westminster, Whitehall and Dublin, yet determined to deliver relief to a country to which he was attached by ties of affection, sympathy, and ancestry."--BOOK JACKET.
