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

Journal of Liberal History

1886-1895

  • Charles Bradlaugh, 1833-1891

    Charles Bradlaugh was born on 26 September 1833 in Hoxton, London, the eldest of the seven children of a poor solicitor’s clerk, and he received only an elementary education. Though brought up in the Church of England, he came to doubt the doctrines of Christianity. Pressure to conform drove him from home in 1850 and…

  • Edwardian Liberalism

    Review of H. V. Emy, Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics, 1892-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1973; reprinted 2008).

  • The Liberal Party and womens suffrage, 1866-1918

    Analysis of the relationship between the Liberal Party and the campaigns for womens suffrage.

  • The farm workers champion

    Biography of one of the first working men to be elected to Parliament, Joseph Arch (1826-1919).

  • The history of the Lib-Labs

    The history of what became known as Lib-Labbery: the representation of labour interests in parliament through the Liberal Party.

  • A ‘sincere, thorough and hearty Liberal’?

    Biography of Jabez Balfour, 1843-1916.

  • 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.

  • Land taxing and the Liberals, 1879 – 1914

    Why did the Liberals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries care so much about the land question in general, and land value taxation in particular?

  • Liberal Unionists

    Gladstone’s decision to pursue a policy of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886 divided the Liberal Party to the core and prompted the departure of the Liberal Unionists, who subsequently formed a separate political party, under the leadership of the Marquess of Hartington.