John Bright
Radical and Liberal MP for City of Durham 1843-1847; Manchester 1847-1857; Birmingham 1857-1885 and Birmingham Central 1885-1889
President of the Board of Trade 1868-1871
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John Bright, 1811-1889
John Bright has been described as one of the great Victorian moralists, standing at the confluence of the mid-nineteenth century working class movement and of the political wing of nonconformist dissent. By providing leadership to these two movements he made a major contribution to the creed of Liberalism, and a major legacy to William Gladstone, […]
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Free Trade and the Repeal of the Corn Laws
Belief in free trade became an enduring characteristic of British liberalism in the 19th century but its roots were complex. In part it stemmed from popular Radical hostility to monopoly in all its forms, in part from the diffusion of Smithian and Ricardian political economy and in part from the administrative pragmatism, reinforced by evangelical religion, of the liberal Tories in the 1820s.
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‘True to his principles’?
An examination of John Bright and his relationship to Liberalism and Irish home rule 1886–1889.
Lifelong campaigner
Review of Bill Cash, John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator (I. B. Tauris, 2011).
John Bright: great political campaigner or something more?
Biography of the radical Liberal campaigner John Bright.
Plus ca change
The politics of faction in the 1850s; an introduction to a speech by John Bright.
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