Abstract
This chapter highlights several prominent themes in both the evolution of the modern British state across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the literature surrounding it. A focus on questions and concerns such as the perception of the proper role, and limits, of the state, and on the interaction of the state with a developing civil society, frames an analysis of the scope and meaning of the state in modern Britain. The chapter ends by exploring opportunities for future research: how government and ‘governmentality’ might be brought into more fruitful scholarly conversation with one another; how we conceptualize the relationships between central and local government; and how historians might assess Britons’ shifting attitudes towards the state.
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