1830-1859
John Stuart Mill: A neo-Athenian republican
The influence of the republic of classical Athens on Mill’s thought.
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.
Liberalism and the Lancashire electorate
The aftermath of the 1832 Reform Act.
William Ewart Gladstone
Simon Heffer’s chapter on Gladstone from Iain Dale’s new book, The Prime Ministers.
The two Henry Redhead Yorkes, radical to liberal
An examination of two BME individuals and their role in British politics, 1790–1850.
Richard Cobden, 1804-1865
Richard Cobden is most famous for his advocacy of free trade and as a leader of the Anti-Corn Law League. He has been described as clothing free trade with a moral cloak. The repeal of the Corn Laws, and the subsequent embedding of the cause of free trade and cheap food in working-class beliefs, were…
Aristocratic Radical
Review of Roger Swift, Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical (Routledge, 2017).