England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

1688-1830

  • Charles James Fox, the Repeal of Poynings Law, and the Act of Union

    1782 – 1801: the critical period in Irish and British history during which many of the seeds of the present troubles were sown.

  • Defender of Liberties: Charles James Fox

    2006 saw the bicentary of the death of the Whig leader Charles James Fox. A proponent of the supremacy of Parliament, the freedom of the press and the rights and civil liberties of the people, and a believer in reform, rationalism and progress, rather than repression, the ideas he defended particularly over the challenge of…

  • Crunch times for the Liberal Democrats?

    Interviews with Tim Razzall and Chris Rennard.

  • Biography: Edmund Burke

    The career and political thought of Edmund Burke.

  • Grimond’s rival

    The life and political career of the contentious, individualistic, right-wing Liberal MP for Cardiganshire from 1945 until 1966, Captain E. Roderic Bowen MP (1913-2001).

  • Theoretician of modernity

    Review of Norman Kemp-Smith, The Philosophy of David Hume: A Central Study of its Origins and Central Doctrines, with a new introduction by Don Garrett (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

  • Vacillating statesman

    Review of Arthur Aspinall, Lord Brougham and the Whig Party (Originally published 1927; reprinted Nonsuch, 2005).

  • Gladstone 1809-1874

    Review of H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1874 (Oxford University Press, 1988).

  • ‘The representative man’

    Reviews of Kenneth Bourne, Palmerston: The Early Years 1783-1841 (Allen Lane, 1982) and Donald Southgate, The Most English Minister (Macmillan, 1966).