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

1886-1895

  • Gladstone’s Newcastle Speech – The Future Policy of the Liberal Party

    Gladstone’s Newcastle speech of October 2nd, 1891 to the Annual Meeting of the National Liberal Federation.

  • 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.

  • Rainbow Circle

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

  • Lib-Labs

    The first working class representatives within Parliament were known as "Lib-Lab" MPs. They accepted the Liberal whip while exercising the right to utilise their experience to speak freely on labour issues.

  • Organiser par excellence

    The career of William Gladstone’s youngest son, Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930).

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Hidden workers of the party

    The professional Liberal agents, 1885-1910.

  • Gladstonian Liberalism according to Gladstone

    What were the prevailing principles of the Liberal Party in the late Victorian period?

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