England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

1859-1886

  • David and Maggie

    Diaries and correspondence files are used to examine the courtship between David Lloyd George and Margaret Owen between 1884 and their marriage in 1888.

  • John Stuart Mill’s ‘On Liberty’ 150 years later

    An analysis of the most well-known work of the greatest of the Victorian Liberal philosophers, published 150 years ago this year, and an assessment of its relevance to 2009.

  • Celebrating 1859: Party, Patriotism and Liberal Values

    On 6 June 1859, 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met at Willis’s Rooms in King Street, St. James’s. They gathered to agree on a strategy to oust Lord Derby’s Conservative government from office. Angus Hawkins analyses the significance of this key event in Liberal history.

  • Land and nation in England

    Review of Paul Readman, Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 (Royal Historical Society, 2008).

  • Out of Chartism, into Liberalism?

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

  • John Stuart Mill as politician

    Mill’s brief career as a Member of Parliament.

  • Coalition before 1886

    Whigs, Peelites and Liberals: an examination of coalitions before 1886.

  • Secular intellectuals

    Review of William C. Lubenow, Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh (Boydell Press, 2010).

  • 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.