The American Civil War and the British women’s movement
How British women anti-slavery campaigners reacted to the war
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Journal Articles
Commerce, conscience and constitutions
An examination of the motives of two Liberals who supported the Confederacy
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‘An undoubted error, the most singular and palpable’
Gladstone and the American Civil War
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John Stuart Mill, moral outrage and the American Civil War
Mill’s contribution to developing Liberal support for the North
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‘The voice of reason’
John Bright and his relationship with the Union during the American
Civil War
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Letting someone else have your way
The Palmerston Ministry’s foreign policy and the American Civil War
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The Liberal Party and the American Civil War
Introduction to this special issue of the Journal of Liberal History
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The local press and Victorian culture
Review of Andrew Hobbs, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855–1900 (Open Book Publishers, 2018)
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Women MPs, 1997–2019
Review of Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith (eds.), The Honourable Ladies, Vol. 2 (Biteback Publications, 2019)
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To be a Liberal
Review of Ian Dunt, How to be a Liberal (Canbury Press, 2020)
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Liberalism in the United States
Meeting report, with Helena Rosenblatt and James Traub
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Letters to the Editor
Tony Greaves (David Cannon); Shirley Williams (Michael Steed and Devin Scobie); Liberals in the 1950s (Richard Pealling); Austin Mitchell (Peter Rowland); Community politics (Trevor Jones)
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A Liberal for All Seasons?
An examination of the political career of Percy Alport Molteno, 1861–1937 (Part 1: 1861–1914)
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Lloyd George and the Versailles Treaty
An analysis of Lloyd George’s role in the Paris peace conference
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The Black Book and the reform of public life in early nineteenth-century Britain
An exposé of corruption which contributed to parliamentary reform, the roots of Liberalism and modern definitions of corruption and standards in public life
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Liberal History News
Sir Peter Ustinov; History Group meeting videos
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Labour biographies
Review of Keith Gildart and David Howell (eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XV (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
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The question of Europe
Review of Vernon Bogdanor, Britain & Europe in a Troubled World (Yale University Press, 2020).
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Religion and politics
Review of Tim Farron, A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal (SPCK Publishing, 2019).
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Back from the dead: the Liberal Party in the 1950s
Report of conference fringe meeting (online), 19 March 2021, with Dr Mark Egan and Lord William Wallace; chair: Baroness Liz Barker
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