Journal of Liberal History 66
Journal of Liberal History 66
Issue: 66, Spring 2010Price: £7
Contents
Letters to the Editor: issue 66
The 1906 election, and Sir Charles Grey MP (Sandy S. Waugh); Margaret Wintringham (Graem Peters); Albert McElroy (Graham Lippiatt)
Liberal History News: Issue 66
Gladstone bicentenary; Gladstone and Bulgaria; Gladstone bicentenary event in Edinburgh; What would Gladstone think?; New on the History Group website
'A Very English Gentleman'
The life of Captain the Hon. Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes, Liberal MP 1906, 1907-15.
Report: What's left of Gladstonian Liberalism in the Liberal Democrats?
Report of History Group meeting of 25 January 2010, with Dr Eugenio Biagini and Chris Huhne MP. Chair: William Wallace (Hon. President, Liberal Democrat History Group).
Violet and Clem
Examination of the relationship between Liberal leader Clement Davies and Lady Violet Bonham Carter.
Helen Suzman: An Appreciation
Personal recollection of the life of South Africa’s first anti-apartheid MP.
Emily Hobhouse and the Controversy over the Destruction of Leuven in World War I
Emily Hobhouse’s role in attempting to reveal the facts behind the German destruction of the Belgian city of Leuven in 1914.
The man who sold the honours
Review of Andrew Cook, Cash for Honours: The Story of Maundy Gregory (The History Press, 2008).
Northern Liberal
Review of Alan Beith, A View from the North (Northumbria University Press, 2008).
Eight case studies of notorious political rivals
Review of John Campbell, Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Year of Political Rivalry, from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown (Jonathan Cape, 2009).