1859-1886
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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).
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A ‘sincere, thorough and hearty Liberal’?
Biography of Jabez Balfour, 1843-1916.
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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.