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

Journal of Liberal History

1886-1895

  • From left to right? The career of John Morley

    Biography of John Morley (1838-1923), the leading Victorian and Edwardian Liberal who could be seen as both of the left and the right.

  • Rainbow Circle

    The Rainbow Circle was a dining club which comprised a group of progressive politicians who met between 1894-1920.

  • British Liberalism and Irish Nationalism

    Review of Eugenio Biagini, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

  • ‘A dynamic force is a terrible thing’

    Review of Martin Pugh, Lloyd George (Longmans, 1988).

  • The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration 1886-1929

    Review of G. R. Searle, The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration 1886-1929 (Macmillan, 1992).

  • Graham Wallas, 1858-1932

    Graham Wallas was born in Sunderland on 31 May 1858, the son of an Evangelical clergyman of the Church of England who later became Rector of Shobrooke in Devon, where the young Wallas was brought up. He went to public school at Shrewsbury and thence to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read Greats. Wallas…

  • William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1898

    As Roy Jenkins concluded in his masterly biography, ‘Mr Gladstone was almost as much the epitome of the Victorian age as the great Queen herself’. He was the political giant of his lifetime and even at the end of the twentieth century the principles and aspirations he brought to public life are still inherent in the…

  • Fighting Labour: the struggle for radical supremacy in Scotland 1885-1929

    The Liberal Democrat History Group is holding its first meeting in Scotland as part of the fringe at the Scottish Liberal Democrats’ spring conference. The meeting will look back at the Liberal Party’s contribution to radical, progressive politics in Scotland and its struggle with Labour in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, culminating in…

  • A distinction without a difference?

    An analysis of how the Liberal Unionists maintained a distinctive identity from their Conservative allies, until coalition in 1895.