Editing Arthur Balfour (section)

==Further reading==
===Biographical===
*{{cite book|last = Adams | first = R. J. Q. | author-link = R. J. Q. Adams | title = Balfour: The Last Grandee | publisher = John Murray | year = 2007 | url = https://archive.org/details/balfourlastgrand0000adam | url-access = registration | isbn = 978-0-7195-5424-7}}
* Alderson, Bernard. ''Arthur James Balfour, the Man and his Work'' (1903) [https://archive.org/details/arthurjamesbalfo00alde online]
* [[Piers Brendon|Brendon, Piers]]: ''Eminent Edwardians'' (1980) ch 2
* {{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Balfour, Arthur James|volume=30|pages=366–368|first=George Earle|last=Buckle|author-link=George Earle Buckle}}
* Dugdale, Blanche: '' Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour KG, OM, FRS- Volume 1'', (1936); ''Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour KG, OM, FRS- Volume 2- 1906–1930'', (1936), official life by his niece; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000110326 vol 1 and 2 online ]
* Eccleshall, Robert, and Graham Walker, eds. ''Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers'' (1998) pp.&nbsp;231–238. [https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_k7v1 online]
* [[Max Egremont|Egremont, Max]]: ''Balfour: A Life of Arthur James Balfour'', [[William Collins and Company Ltd]], 1980
* [[E. H. H. Green|Green, E. H. H.]] ''Balfour''(Haus, 2006). {{ISBN|978-1-904950-55-4}}
* Mackay, Ruddock F.: ''Balfour, Intellectual Statesman'' (Oxford 1985) {{ISBN|978-0-19-212245-2}} [https://archive.org/details/balfourintellect00mack online]
* Mackay, Ruddock F., and H. C. G. Matthew. "Balfour, Arthur James, first Earl of Balfour (1848–1930)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30553, accessed 19 Nov 2016] 18,000 word scholarly biography
* Pearce, Robert and Graham Goodlad. ''British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown'' (2013) pp 1–11.
* {{cite book|author=Raymond, E. T. |title=A Life of Arthur James Balfour|publisher=Little, Brown |url=https://archive.org/details/alifearthurjame00raymgoog|year=1920}}
* Young, Kenneth: '' Arthur James Balfour: The Happy Life of the Politician, Prime Minister, Statesman and Philosopher- 1848–1930'', [[G. Bell and Sons]], 1963 [https://archive.org/details/arthurjamesbalfo0000youn online]
* Zebel, Sydney Henry. ''Balfour: A Political Biography'' (ICON Group International, 1973) [https://archive.org/details/balfourpolitical00zebe online]

===Specialty studies===
* Curtis, Lewis Perry. ''Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland 1880–1892'' (1963) [https://archive.org/details/coercionconcilia00curt online]
* Davis, Peter. "The Liberal Unionist party and the Irish policy of Lord Salisbury's government, 1886–1892." ''Historical Journal'' 18.1 (1975): 85–104. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2638469 online]
* Dutton, David. ''His Majesty's Loyal Opposition: the Unionist Party in Opposition 1905–1915'' (Liverpool UP, 1992).
* Ellenberger, Nancy W. ''Balfour's World: Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siècle'' (2015). [https://www.amazon.com/Balfours-World-Aristocracy-Political-Culture/dp/1783270373/ excerpt]
* [[Gollin, Alfred M.]] ''Balfour's burden: Arthur Balfour and imperial preference''(1965).
* Green, E.H.H. ''The Crisis of Conservatism: the politics, economics and ideology of the British Conservative Party, 1880–1914'' (Routledge, 1995)
* Halévy, Élie (1926) ''Imperialism And The Rise Of Labour'' (1926) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226788/page/n1 online]
* Halévy, Élie (1956) ''A History Of The English People: Epilogue vol 1: 1895–1905'' (1929) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226414 online] as prime minister pp 131ff,.
* Jacyna, Leon Stephen. "Science and social order in the thought of A.J. Balfour." ''Isis'' (1980): 11–34. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/230312 in JSTOR]
* Judd, Denis. ''Balfour and the British Empire: a study in Imperial evolution 1874–1932'' (1968). [https://archive.org/details/balfourbritishem0000judd online]
* Marriott, J. A. R. ''Modern England, 1885–1945'' (1948), pp.&nbsp;180–99, on Balfour as prime minister. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.122213 online]
* Massie, Robert K. '' Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War'' (1992) pp 310–519, a popular account of Balfour's foreign and naval policies as prime minister.
* Mathew, William M. "The Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, 1917–1923: British Imperialist Imperatives." ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies'' 40.3 (2013): 231–250.
* O'Callaghan, Margaret. ''British high politics and a nationalist Ireland: criminality, land and the law under Forster and Balfour'' (Cork Univ Pr, 1994).
* Ramsden, John. ''A History of the Conservative Party: The age of Balfour and Baldwin, 1902–1940'' (1978); vol 3 of a scholarly history of the Conservative Party.
* Rempel, Richard A. ''Unionists Divided; Arthur Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain and the Unionist Free Traders'' (1972).
* Rofe, J. Simon, and Alan Tomlinson. "Strenuous competition on the field of play, diplomacy off it: the 1908 London Olympics, Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur Balfour, and transatlantic relations." ''Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era'' 15.1 (2016): 60–79. [http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18020/1/Rofe-Tomlinson-strenous-competition-on-the-field-of-play-diplomacy-off-it.pdf online]
* Shannon, Catherine B. "The Legacy of Arthur Balfour to Twentieth-Century Ireland." in Peter Collins, ed. ''Nationalism and Unionism'' (1994): 17–34.
* Shannon, Catherine B. ''Arthur J. Balfour and Ireland, 1874–1922'' (Catholic Univ of America Press, 1988) [https://archive.org/details/arthurjbalfourir00cath online].
* Sugawara, Takeshi. "Arthur Balfour and the Japanese Military Assistance during the Great War." ''International Relations'' 2012.168 (2012): pp 44–57. [https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/kokusaiseiji/2012/168/2012_168_44/_pdf online]
* Taylor, Tony. "Arthur Balfour and educational change: The myth revisited." ''British Journal of Educational Studies'' 42#2 (1994): 133–149.
* Tomes, Jason. ''Balfour and foreign policy: the international thought of a conservative statesman'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
* [[Barbara W. Tuchman|Tuchman, Barbara W.]]: ''[[The Proud Tower]] – A Portrait of the World Before the War'' (1966)
* Young, John W. "Conservative Leaders, Coalition, and Britain's Decision for War in 1914." ''Diplomacy & Statecraft'' (2014) 25#2 pp 214–239.

===Historiography===
* Loades David, ed. ''Reader's Guide to British History'' (2003) 1:122–24; cover major politicians and issues
* Rasor Eugene L. ''Arthur James Balfour, 1848–1930: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography'' (1998)

===Primary sources===
* Balfour, Arthur James. ''Criticism and Beauty: A Lecture Rewritten, Being the Romanes Lecture for 1909'' (Oxford, 1910) [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Criticism_and_Beauty online]
* Cecil, Robert, and Arthur J. Balfour. ''Salisbury-Balfour Correspondence: Letters Exchanged Between the 3. Marquess of Salisbury and His Nephew Arthur James Balfour; 1869–1892'' (Hertfordshire Record Society, 1988).
* Ridley, Jane, and Clayre Percy, eds. ''The Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho 1885–1917.'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1992).
* Short, Wilfrid M., ed. ''Arthur James Balfour as Philosopher and Thinker: A Collection of the More Important and Interesting Passages in His Non-political Writings, Speeches, and Addresses, 1879–1912'' (1912). [https://archive.org/details/arthurjamesbalfo00balf <!-- quote=arthur balfour. --> online]