1895-1910

The New Liberalism

The disaster of the 1895 election, when the Liberals lost almost a hundred seats, struck a mortal blow at Rosebery's leadership and pointed to the urgent need for a new direction. Although for some it was the party's abandonment of its historic principles of self-help, voluntaryism and constitutional reform that lay at fault, to others…
Report: 1906 remembered

Scottish Liberal Club lecture, with Willis Pickard.
1906: Blissful dawn?

Lecture to the Corporation of London, February 2006.
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?
The single-taxers and the future of Liberalism, 1906-1914

Analysis of what was hailed, in the early years of the twentieth century, as the radical alternative to collectivism and even the New Liberalism.
Hidden workers of the party

The professional Liberal agents, 1885-1910.
The Liberal Party and the South African War 1899-1902

Examination of the crisis in the Liberal Party that was provoked by the Anglo-Boer War.
Hastings in 1900

The ‘khaki election’ of 1900 saw the Liberals performing poorly. This article examines one seat they gained from the Conservatives.

Journal of Liberal History