1859-1886
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Gladstone as Chancellor
The Exchequer brought fame to Gladstone but in return Gladstone raised the office to the forefront of politics.
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Joseph Chamberlain and Municipal Liberalism
The reforms in municipal services that Joseph Chamberlain introduced during his three-year mayoralty of Birmingham in the mid-1870s marked a turning point for British Liberalism as well as in the governance of industrial cities.
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Coalition before 1886
Whigs, Peelites and Liberals: an examination of coalitions before 1886.
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The Liberal Party and womens suffrage, 1866-1918
Analysis of the relationship between the Liberal Party and the campaigns for womens suffrage.
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Promoting progress everywhere
Review of Jonathan Parry, The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe 1830-1886 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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Origins of the party
Review of John Vincent, The Formation of the British Liberal Party 1857-68 (Constable, 1966).
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Gladstone and the Conservative collapse
Analysis of the article on The Conservative Collapse in the Fortnightly Review of 1 May 1880, published anonymously but written by Gladstone.
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Value for money
The story of novelist Anthony Trollope’s campaign for Beverley in Yorkshire in 1868.
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The farm workers champion
Biography of one of the first working men to be elected to Parliament, Joseph Arch (1826-1919).