Liberal thought and thinkers
The twisting path
Review of Tudor Jones, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism: from Jo Grimond to Brexit (2nd edn., Manchester University Press, 2019).
Liberal History News
Unknown text by John Locke discovered.
E. D. Simon: Intellectual in politics
Biography of E. D. Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe.
Saving Dunford House
The threat to Richard Cobden’s Sussex home.
The general election of 1868
Discussion of the results of the election that brought the Liberals to power.
A truly remarkable man – but not a universal man
Review of Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (William Collins, 2015).
The ‘European mind’ of late Victorian Liberalism
W. E. Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain.
On this day 1-4-1940
Along with L.T. Hobhouse, Hobson is regarded as one of the key figures associated with New Liberalism in the 1900s. Born in Derby, Hobson’s formative experiences were as a member of the Rainbow Circle (whose members went on to be prominent figures in both the Liberal and Labour parties) and as South Africa correspondent for…