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Jon Parry is Professor of Modern British History at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of British politics and political ideas in the nineteenth century. As far as domestic politics are concerned, his main interests include the history of parliamentary politics and of Liberalism and Conservatism, together with debates about the constitution, parliament, the monarchy, English national identity and the relationship between religion and politics. Professor Parry has also written extensively on British politics and Europe in the nineteenth century, and has published articles on the British, Baghdad and steam power, 1820-60, and on Disraeli and the East. He has a side interest in the history of mountaineering in the nineteenth century.