Editing William Pitt the Younger (section)

==Further reading==

===Biographical===
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* {{cite book|author-link=Michael Duffy (historian)|last=Duffy|first=Michael|year=2000|title=The Younger Pitt (Profiles In Power) |publisher=Longman|isbn=978-0-582-05279-6}}
*{{Cite book |last=Carlyle |first=Thomas |title=[[Critical and Miscellaneous Essays|Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Volume V]] |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |series=The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes |volume=XXX |location=New York |publication-date=1904 |pages=152–167 |chapter=William Pitt, the Younger |year=1903 |author-link=Thomas Carlyle |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/worksofthomascar030carl/page/n165/mode/2up}}
* Derry, J. W. ''William Pitt, the Younger'' (Batsford, 1962) "Makers of Britain" series
* {{cite book|author-link=Michael Duffy (historian)|last=Duffy|first=Michael|year=2000|title=The Younger Pitt (Profiles In Power) |publisher=Longman|isbn=978-0-582-05279-6}}
* Ehrman, J. P. W., and Anthony Smith. "Pitt, William (1759–1806)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (2004); [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22338, online 2009; accessed 12 September 2011]
* Evans, Eric J. ''William Pitt the Younger'' (1999) 110 pages; [https://www.questia.com/library/102880277/william-pitt-the-younger online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130114704/https://www.questia.com/library/102880277/william-pitt-the-younger |date=30 November 2018 }}
* Furber, Holden. ''Henry Dundas: First Viscount Melville, 1741–1811, Political Manager of Scotland, Statesman, Administrator of British India'' (Oxford UP, 1931). [https://archive.org/details/cu31924028005027 online]
* {{cite book|last=Jarrett|first=Derek|year=1974|title=Pitt the Younger|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |asin=B002AMOXYK |asin-tld=co.uk |url=https://archive.org/details/pittyounger0000jarr|url-access=registration}}, a short scholarly biography
* Jupp, Peter. "Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2009) {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/11501}}
*{{citation |last=Jupp |first=P. |title=Lord Grenville |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1985}}
* Leonard, Dick. "William Pitt, the Younger—Reformer Turned Reactionary?." in Leonard, ed. ''Nineteenth-Century British Premiers'' (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008) pp.&nbsp;5–27.
* Mori, Jennifer. ''William Pitt & the French Revolution, 1785–1795'' (1997) 305pp
* Mori, Jennifer. "William Pitt the Younger" in R. Eccleshall and G. Walker, eds., ''Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers'' (Routledge, 1998), pp.&nbsp;85–94
* {{cite book|last=Reilly|first=Robin|year=1978|title=Pitt the Younger 1759–1806|publisher=Cassell Publishers |asin=B001OOYKNE |asin-tld=co.uk}}
* Rose, J. Holland. ''William Pitt and National Revival'' (1911); ''William Pitt and the Great War'' (1912), solid, detailed study superseded by Ehrman; [https://www.amazon.com/William-Pitt-National-Revival-Holland/dp/1112092803/ vol 1]; [https://www.amazon.com/William-Pitt-Great-John-Holland-ebook/dp/B0082P4MSQ/ vol 2 free]; 
* {{cite book|author-link=Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope|last=Stanhope|first=((Philip Henry [5th Earl Stanhope])) |year=1861–1862 |title=Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt|publisher=John Murray}}. (4 volumes); includes many extracts from Pitt's correspondence [https://archive.org/details/liferighthonour02stangoog vol 1 online]; [https://archive.org/details/liferighthonour01stangoog vol 2 online]
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===Scholarly studies===
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* Blanning, T. C. W. ''The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787–1802'' (1996)
* Bryant, Arthur. ''Years of Endurance 1793–1802'' (1942); and ''Years of Victory, 1802–1812'' (1944), well-written surveys of the British story
* Cooper, William. "William Pitt, Taxation, and the Needs of War", ''Journal of British Studies'' Vol. 22, No. 1 (Autumn, 1982), pp.&nbsp;94–103 {{JSTOR|175658}}
* Derry, J. ''Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool: Continuity and Transformation'' (1990)
* Gaunt, Richard A. ''From Pitt to Peel: Conservative Politics in the Age of Reform'' (2014)
* Kelly, Paul. "British Politics, 1783-4: The Emergence and Triumph of the Younger Pitt's Administration", ''Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research'' Vol. 54, No. 123 (1981) pp.&nbsp;62–78.
* Ledger-Lomas, Michael. "The Character of Pitt the Younger and Party Politics, 1830–1860." ''The Historical Journal'' Vol. 47, No. 3 (2004), pp.&nbsp;641–661 {{JSTOR|4091759}}
* Mori, Jennifer. "The political theory of William Pitt the Younger", ''History'', April 1998, Vol. 83 Issue 270, pp.&nbsp;234–248
* Richards, Gerda C. "The Creations of Peers Recommended by the Younger Pitt", ''American Historical Review'' Vol. 34, No. 1 (October 1928), pp.&nbsp;47–54 {{JSTOR|1836479}}
* Sack, James J. ''From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain c.1760–1832'' (Cambridge University Press, 1993), does not see Pitt as a Tory
* Sack, James J. ''The Grenvillites, 1801–29: Party Politics and Factionalism in the Age of Pitt and Liverpool'' (U. of Illinois Press, 1979)
* Simms, Brendan. "Britain and Napoleon", ''The Historical Journal'' Vol. 41, No. 3 (1998) pp.&nbsp;885–894 {{JSTOR|2639908}}
* Wilkinson, D. "The Pitt-Portland Coalition of 1794 and the Origins of the 'Tory' party" ''History'' Vol. 83 (1998), pp.&nbsp;249–264
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===Historiography and memory===
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* Foster, R. E. "Forever Young: Myth, Reality and William Pitt", ''History Review'' (March 2009) No. 63
* Ledger-Lomas, Michael. "The Character of Pitt the Younger and Party Politics, 1830–1860" ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 47, No. 3 (2004) pp.&nbsp;641–661
* Loades, David Michael, ed. ''Reader's guide to British history'' (2003) 2: 1044–45
* Moncure, James A. ed. ''Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450–Present'' (4 vol 1992); 4:1640–46
* Petrie, Charles, "The Bicentenary of the Younger Pitt", ''Quarterly Review'' (1959), Vol. 297 Issue 621, pp 254–265
* Sack, J. J. "The Memory of Burke and the Memory of Pitt: English Conservatism Confronts its Past, 1806–1829", ''The Historical Journal'' Vol. 30, No. 3 (1987) pp.&nbsp;623–640 {{JSTOR|2639162}}, shows that after his death the conservatives embraced him as a great patriotic hero.
* Turner, Simon. 'I will not alter an Iota for any Mans Opinion upon Earth': "James Gillray's Portraits of William Pitt the Younger" in Kim Sloan ''et al''. eds., ''Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman'' (2015) pp. 197–206.
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===Primary sources===
* Pitt, William. ''The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons'' (1817) [https://books.google.com/books?id=NC0BEvqsUOgC online edition]
* Temperley, Harold and L.M. Penson, eds. ''Foundations of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902)'' (1938), primary sources [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.2629 online]