1859-1886

‘He would not stoop, he did not conquer’

Review of Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery (Phoenix, 1995).
The legacy of Gladstone

The Grand Old Man’s record.
Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme

This meeting looked at Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme, and how this led to the loss of the Whigs from the Liberal Party and paved the way for the New Liberalism of the 1905 government.
A ‘sincere, thorough and hearty Liberal’?

Biography of Jabez Balfour, 1843-1916.
Gladstone and Ireland: the legacy

1868 -1974: analysis of Gladstone’s domination of both the Liberal Party and Ireland in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Land taxing and the Liberals, 1879 – 1914

Why did the Liberals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries care so much about the land question in general, and land value taxation in particular?
Religion and politics

Religion and politics. The impact of the Bradlaugh case on the Berwick-upon-Tweed by-elections of 1880 and 1881.
The Hawarden Kite

In November 1885 the Irish Nationalist leader, Charles Stewart Parnell proposed an independent constitution for Ireland and although the Liberal leader, William Gladstone, believed in the necessity of Home Rule by this time, he was also convinced that he needed further time to persuade his Party of this.
Out of Chartism, into Liberalism?

Popular radicals and the Liberal Party in mid-Victorian Britain.

Journal of Liberal History