1895-1910
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Bitterest allies
Review of Ian Cawood, The Liberal Unionist Party: A History (I.B. Tauris, 2012).
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Scapegoat for Liberalism?
Review of Antony Lentin, Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer (Haus, 2013).
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Three acres and a cow
Jesse Collings and the Smallholdings and Allotments Act 1908.
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Liberalism and national identity
An examination of the role played by Liberalism in the Victorian construction of a national identity.
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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.
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Lloyd George, nonconformity and radicalism
Lloyd George’s career and beliefs from 1890 to 1906.
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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…
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Earl of Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose), 1847-1929
Rosebery is perhaps the least well-known of the Liberal Prime Ministers, having the misfortune to serve in the office for only a short period, immediately after the extended career of the charismatic Gladstone. He had a difficult relationship with the radicals of his parliamentary party, not because of his social policy attitudes (he was a…