1830-1859
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‘He would not stoop, he did not conquer’
Review of Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery (Phoenix, 1995).
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The legacy of Gladstone
The Grand Old Man’s record.
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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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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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Out of Chartism, into Liberalism?
Popular radicals and the Liberal Party in mid-Victorian Britain.
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Gladstone 1809-1874
Review of H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1874 (Oxford University Press, 1988).
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Vacillating statesman
Review of Arthur Aspinall, Lord Brougham and the Whig Party (Originally published 1927; reprinted Nonsuch, 2005).
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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.