Museum. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the Press (1947–1949) and he received honorary degrees from Durham (1950) and Cambridge (1953); and an honorary fellowship at Balliol (1953). Works Books Gibbon, 1932 (ed.) Early Victorian England, 1830-1865. 2 vols, 1934. Charles I and Cromwell: An Essay, 1935 Portrait of an Age, 1936 Daylight and Champaign: Essays, 1937 The Government of Britain, 1941 Basic, 1943 – a tract for the Society for Pure English Today and Yesterday: Collected Essays and Addresses, 1948 Scott and History, 1950 Last Essays, 1950 Stanley Baldwin, 1952 (with W. D. Handcock) English Historical Documents, 1833–1914, 1956 Victorian Essays, a collection of 25 of Young's previously published essays on the topic, selected and introduced by Handcock, 1962 Published texts of lectures delivered by Young The Age of Tennyson, 1939 Burke, 1943 Rights and Duties in the Modern State, 1946 Shakespeare and the Termers, 1947 The Good Society, 1950 See also A History of England Notes, references and sources Notes References Sources External links Portraits of G. M. Young at National Portrait Gallery (London) 1882 births 1959 deaths Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Companions of the Order of the Bath Trustees of the British Museum James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients 20th-century English historians People from Greenhithe Presidents of the Classical Association