1830-1859
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William Ewart Gladstone
Simon Heffer’s chapter on Gladstone from Iain Dale’s new book, The Prime Ministers.
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The two Henry Redhead Yorkes, radical to liberal
An examination of two BME individuals and their role in British politics, 1790–1850.
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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…
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Aristocratic Radical
Review of Roger Swift, Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical (Routledge, 2017).
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The ‘European mind’ of late Victorian Liberalism
W. E. Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain.