Tony Little

Events (chair)

Tony Little chaired the following events on behalf of the Liberal Democrat History Group:

• Election 2010 in historical perspective
• Liberal Democrats in Europe, 21 years of success or failure?
• Salad days: merger twenty years on
• Winston Churchill: A Liberal Politician

Journal Articles (subject)

The following journal articles are about Tony Little or mention them in some way:

• Keeping the faith
• Leading the Liberals

Histories (author)

Tony Little is the author of the following histories:

• Josephine Butler, 1828-1906
• Lady Palmerston (Emily Mary Lamb), 1787-1869
• Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847-1929
• Earl of Aberdeen (George Hamilton-Gordon), 1784-1860
• William Edward Forster, 1818-1886
• Chamberlain’s Radical Programme
• Extract from Gladstone’s 3rd Midlothian speech on foreign policy
• Remember The Rights of The Savage
• The Age of Russell and Palmerston, 1846-1868
• Lord John Russell (Earl Russell), 1792-1878
• Marquess of Hartington (Duke of Devonshire), 1833-1908
• Earl of Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose), 1847-1929
• Earl Granville (Granville George Leveson Gower), 1815-1891
• The Newcastle Programme
• Viscount Palmerston (Henry John Temple), 1784-1865
• Gladstone’s Parliamentary Record 1868-1900
• Gladstone’s first government
• A torrent of gin and beer: the election defeat in 1874
• The Liberals in opposition 1875-1880
• The Midlothian Campaign
• Gladstone’s second government
• The Home Rule crisis

Journal Articles (author)

Tony Little is the author of the following journal articles:

• Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847–1929
• Politics, principles and priorities
• ‘He would not stoop, he did not conquer’
• ‘Not so much a question of greatness’
• Gladstone 1809-1874
• Gladstone: further reading
• Victorian Liberals
• Money and power
• A real drag
• ‘A dynamic force is a terrible thing’
• ‘The representative man’
• Jogging along by the Parliamentary train?
• Education – back to our roots
• A working class radical
• Reviews: Issue 10
• Keeping the peace?
• The evolution of devolution
• Must governments fail
• The unknown Prime Minister
• Building the Party
• The Forbidden Ground
• Saint or devil?
• ‘Women who wish for political enfranchisement should say so’
• Minded to slay national ignorance
• The man who made the weather: Joseph Chamberlain – imperial standard bearer, national leader, local icon
• ‘Unquestionably a remarkable woman’
• You don’t have to be mad to work there, but …
• Bitterest allies
• New perspectives on Gladstone
• A tale of two symbols
• Gladstone’s First Government 1868–74
• ‘An undoubted error, the most singular and palpable’
• Runing the world from clubs
• Report: Gladstone Bicentenary Conference
• Doomed to live in towns
• The great chain which connects
• Those barbarous wretches
• Great Liberal Speeches
• Eloquence, energy and execution
• Restorative Conservatism
• Let us open to them the door of the House of Commons
• A well-connected Liberal in the court of Queen Victoria
• Exploding the delusion of protection
• Value for money
• Plus ca change
• Pioneering spirit
• ‘God made the land for the people’
• The diary of a somebody
• The double Duchess and a violently moderate man
• Left and right in Victorian Liberalism
• A very distinguished tightrope dancer
• Promoting progress everywhere
• No one likes us, we don’t care
• ‘His friends sat on the benches opposite’
• Breaking the mould?
• Out from under the umbrella
• Virtues and flaws
• Landowner and minister
• ‘There are things stronger than parliamentary majorities
• The peers and the people
• ‘The only being who elects without voting, governs without law’
• Research Notes: issue 20
• The two Mr Gladstones
• Some Gladstonian attitudes
• Report: Only Connect
• A visit to Hawarden
• W. E. Gladstone: Lessons and Legacy
• Great and terrible occasions