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

  • William Ewart Gladstone

    Simon Heffer’s chapter on Gladstone from Iain Dale’s new book, The Prime Ministers.

  • Richard Cobden, 1804-1865

    Richard Cobden is most famous for his advocacy of free trade and as a leader of the Anti-Corn Law League. He has been described as clothing free trade with a moral cloak. The repeal of the Corn Laws, and the subsequent embedding of the cause of free trade and cheap food in working-class beliefs, were…

  • Liberalism and the Gladstone salon

    Review of Phyllis Weliver, Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

  • CB

    Review of Alexander S. Waugh, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman: A Scottish Life and UK Politics 1836–1908 (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2019).

  • Northampton and the democratic radical tradition

    An analysis of the relationship between Chartism and radical Liberals in Northampton in the 1860s and ’70s.

  • Anarchism and Liberalism 1880-1980

    Some anarchists were successfully influential in liberal networks, starting with many New Liberal networks around the beginning of the 20th Century. My thesis focuses on this earlier period but I am interested in anarchist influences on liberalism throughout the twentieth century. If any readers can help with informing me of their own personal experiences of…

  • Doomed to live in towns

    Review of Tom Crook, Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910 (University of California Press, 2016).

  • Birmingham, the ‘Caucus’ and the 1868 general election

    An examination of the emergence and impact of the Birmingham Liberal ‘caucus’.

  • Letters to the Editor

    Elections in Glasgow (Michael Steed).

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