1886-1895
-
Morley and the Liberal Party
Review of Patrick Jackson, Morley of Blackburn (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012).
-
The myth of New Liberalism
Continuity and change in Liberal politics, 1889-1914.
-
Bitterest allies
Review of Ian Cawood, The Liberal Unionist Party: A History (I.B. Tauris, 2012).
-
Liberalism and national identity
An examination of the role played by Liberalism in the Victorian construction of a national identity.
-
The Reform Club’s Jubilee Ball
The end of an era.
-
Lloyd George, nonconformity and radicalism
Lloyd George’s career and beliefs from 1890 to 1906.
-
Earl of Kimberley (John Wodehouse), 1826-1902
When Lord Kimberley died on 8 April 1902, he was commonly remembered as Gladstone’s loyal lieutenant: competent, hard-working, and high-minded. By praising these very civilian virtues in the context of war-charged, turn-of-the-century high politics, his twentieth-century eulogists were politely wondering exactly why Kimberley had mattered. After all, as one journalist wrote, he was as far…