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. He spent most of his academic career at University College, London (UCL). In 1983 he gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford, on the reasons why Britain avoided revolution, subsequently published as Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 1984).

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