1886-1895
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The long march of British history
Review of Martin Pugh, State and Society. A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
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The long-lived Liberal Party of Canada
An examination of the history of the Canadian Liberal Party.
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Votes for Women (1)
Report of the conference fringe meeting, 9 March 2018, with Krista Cowman and Jo Swinson MP; chair: Elizabeth Jewkes.
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A truly remarkable man – but not a universal man
Review of Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (William Collins, 2015).
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The ‘European mind’ of late Victorian Liberalism
W. E. Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain.
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Liberals, free trade and Europe
From Cobden to the Common Market.
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Radical Joe and Chocolate George
Review of Andrew Reekes, Two Titans, One City: Joseph Chamberlain and George Cadbury (History West Midlands, 2017).
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Dadabhai Naoroji, 1825-1917
When four black Labour MPs were elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 general election, much was made of the political breakthrough this represented for Britain’s ethnic minority communities. But the first non-white to win a Parliamentary seat had achieved his victory, as a Liberal, nearly a hundred years earlier.
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Agents at work
Review of Kathryn Rix, Parties, Agents and Electoral Culture in England 1880–1910 (Boydell Press, 2016).