1895-1910
‘A Very English Gentleman’
The life of Captain the Hon. Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes, Liberal MP 1906, 1907-15.
Bitterest allies
Review of Ian Cawood, The Liberal Unionist Party: A History (I.B. Tauris, 2012).
Scapegoat for Liberalism?
Review of Antony Lentin, Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer (Haus, 2013).
Three acres and a cow
Jesse Collings and the Smallholdings and Allotments Act 1908.
Liberalism and national identity
An examination of the role played by Liberalism in the Victorian construction of a national identity.
The South African war and its effect on the Liberal alliance
The impact of the 2nd Boer War on the alliance between the Liberal Party and the Irish nationalists.
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…