Articles
Gladstone and the great Irish famine
An exploration of Gladstone’s reaction to the Great Famine, some two decades before his first premiership.
Emily Hobhouse and the Controversy over the Destruction of Leuven in World War I
Emily Hobhouse’s role in attempting to reveal the facts behind the German destruction of the Belgian city of Leuven in 1914.
‘A Very English Gentleman’
The life of Captain the Hon. Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes, Liberal MP 1906, 1907-15.
The last of the Liberals
The career and political thought of Francis Wrigley Hirst (1873-1953).
Liberal roots
The Liberal Party in a West Yorkshire constituency, 1920s-1970s.
Three acres and a cow
Jesse Collings and the Smallholdings and Allotments Act 1908.
Jo Grimond 1913-1993
David Steel’s commemoration lecture, given at Firth Kirk, Finstown, Orkney, 18 May 2013.
Liberalism and national identity
An examination of the role played by Liberalism in the Victorian construction of a national identity.
‘A nasty, deplorable little incident in our political life’
Liberalism, National Liberalism and the editorship of the Dumfries Standard, 1957.