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

  • 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.

  • John Acton

  • John Stuart Mill

  • William Digby

  • Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1836-1908

    There have been four Liberals at the head of clearly Liberal governments – Gladstone, Rosebery, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith. Three of them are well-known names. Yet of the four, ‘CB’ was far and away the best party leader. […]

  • William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1898

    Amongst the number of outstanding statesmen in Victorian Britain, Gladstone was unquestionably the greatest. He brought to his public life an exceptional physical, mental and spiritual vitality. He was a man of independent but by no means unchanging mind. His combination of moral zeal and the willingness to think on and on, no doubt explains…

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