Journal of Liberal History

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

Journal of Liberal History

For the discussion and research of Liberal, Liberal Democrat and SDP history

1859-1886

  • 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.

  • British Liberalism and Irish Nationalism

    Review of Eugenio Biagini, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

  • ‘A dynamic force is a terrible thing’

    Review of Martin Pugh, Lloyd George (Longmans, 1988).

  • Gladstone 1809-1874

    Review of H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1874 (Oxford University Press, 1988).

  • Chamberlain on the Radical Programme

    First speech on the Unauthorised Programme by Joseph Chamberlain – Warrington, September 8 1885.

  • Chamberlain’s Radical Programme

    Joseph Chamberlain, the Birmingham manufacturer, took up full time politics in the 1870s. As mayor of Birmingham he built his reputation by successfully importing business methods into local government and the Radical Programme was his attempt to apply his techniques on a national stage.

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