Liberal thought and thinkers
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The twisting path
Review of Tudor Jones, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism: from Jo Grimond to Brexit (2nd edn., Manchester University Press, 2019).
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Liberal History News
Unknown text by John Locke discovered.
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E. D. Simon: Intellectual in politics
Biography of E. D. Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe.
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Saving Dunford House
The threat to Richard Cobden’s Sussex home.
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The general election of 1868
Discussion of the results of the election that brought the Liberals to power.
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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).
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The ‘European mind’ of late Victorian Liberalism
W. E. Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain.
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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…