Peter Stansky

Peter David Lyman Stansky (born January 18, 1932) is an American historian specializing in modern British history.

Works

• Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s (1964)
• Journey to the Frontier: Julian Bell and John Cornford: Their lives and the 1930s, with William Abrahams (1966)
• Conference on British Studies Biographical series, editor, 6 vols.(1968–1974)
• The Left and War: The British Labour Party and the First World War, editor (1969)
• John Morley Nineteenth Century Essays, editor (1970)
• The Unknown Orwell, with William Abrahams (1972)
• Winston Churchill: A Profile, editor (1973)
• The Victorian Revolution, editor (1973)
• England Since 1867: Continuity and Change (1973)
• The Aesthetic Movement and the Art and Crafts Movement, editor, with Rodney Shewan. A reprint series of 73 volumes (1976, 1979)
• Orwell: The Transformation, with William Abrahams (1979)
• Gladstone: A Progress in Politics (1979)
• Modern British History Series, editor, 18 vol. with Leslie Hume (1982)
• William Morris (1983)
• On Nineteen Eighty-Four, editor (1983)
• Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts (1985)
• Modern European History Series, editor, 47 vols. (1987–1992)
• London's Burning, with William Abrahams (1994)
• On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World (1996)
• Another Book that Never Was (1998)
• From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper (1999) includes bibliography of writings 1954–1998
• Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil (2003)
• The First Day of the Blitz (2007)
• Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War (2012)
• Edward Upward: Art and Life (2016)
• ‘’The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War’’ (2023)

External links

• Guide to the Peter Stansky Papers
• "Peter Stansky: An Oral History," Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2013.
• "Peter Stansky: An Oral History," Faculty Senate Oral History Project, Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2017.