1830-1859
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Gladstone and the great Irish famine
An exploration of Gladstone’s reaction to the Great Famine, some two decades before his first premiership.
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Views of Peel
Review of Richard A. Gaunt, Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy (I. B. Tauris, 2010).
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Liberalism and national identity
An examination of the role played by Liberalism in the Victorian construction of a national identity.
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Liberals in Ulster
Review of Gerald R. Hall, Ulster Liberalism 1778-1876 (Four Courts Press, 2011).
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Viscount Palmerston (Henry John Temple), 1784-1865
If we date the modern Liberal Party from the 1859 meeting in Willis’ Tea Rooms, we must accord Palmerston the honour of being the first Liberal Prime Minister, though he would have thought himself the Queen’s minister and the nation’s leader rather than a party’s. In truth, he was more the last of the old…