1830-1859
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John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873
John Stuart Mill, philosopher, economist, journalist, political writer, social reformer, and, briefly, Liberal MP, is one of the most famous figures in the pantheon of Liberal theorists, and the greatest of the Victorian Liberal thinkers. Yet his relevance is not restricted to the nineteenth century; as L. T. Hobhouse wrote in 1911, in his single…
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‘His friends sat on the benches opposite’
Examination of the part played by the renegade Conservatives – the Peelites – in the creation of the Liberal Party.
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A political man
The political aspirations of William Taylor Haly, a perenially unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1850s.
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Plus ca change
The politics of faction in the 1850s; an introduction to a speech by John Bright.
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Lord John Russell and the Irish Catholics
1829 – 1852: despite the Whig leader Lord John Russell’s efforts to work for justice to Ireland, his policies ended mainly in failure.
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Let us open to them the door of the House of Commons
Speech by Thomas Babington Macaulay on Jewish Disabilities (House of Commons, 17 April 1833).
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The Liberal electoral agent in the post-Reform-Act era
An analysis of the activities of the Liberal electoral agents in the period after the Great Reform Act.
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Exploding the delusion of protection
A speech made by Richard Cobden in March 1845, near the climax of the campaign to abolish the Corn Laws.
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The legacy of Gladstone
The Grand Old Man’s record.