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

Journal of Liberal History

1859-1886

  • Sir William Harcourt, 1827-1904

    William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt was born at York on 14 October 1827, of a land-owning and clerical family which traced its ancestry to the Plantagenet kings. His elder brother, Edward Harcourt, was a staunch Conservative and for eight years an MP. William Harcourt’s views, however, began to take a Liberal turn in the…

  • Report: Joseph Chamberlain and the Unauthorised Programme

    Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting held at the National Liberal Club on 25 July 2005, with Peter Marsh and Terry Jenkins.

  • A squire in the House of Lords

    The political life of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826 – 1902).

  • John Stuart Mill on votes for women

    'We ought not to deny to them, what we are conceding to everybody else' – House of Commons, 20 May 1867

  • 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. Only Grimond, in very different circumstances, can compare with him. Had Campbell-Bannerman not become leader in…

  • Land and nation in England

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

  • 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.

  • ‘The representative man’

    Reviews of Kenneth Bourne, Palmerston: The Early Years 1783-1841 (Allen Lane, 1982) and Donald Southgate, The Most English Minister (Macmillan, 1966).