Articles
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Gladstone and the great Irish famine
An exploration of Gladstone’s reaction to the Great Famine, some two decades before his first premiership.
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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.
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‘A Very English Gentleman’
The life of Captain the Hon. Thomas Charles Reginald Agar-Robartes, Liberal MP 1906, 1907-15.
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The last of the Liberals
The career and political thought of Francis Wrigley Hirst (1873-1953).
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Liberal roots
The Liberal Party in a West Yorkshire constituency, 1920s-1970s.
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Three acres and a cow
Jesse Collings and the Smallholdings and Allotments Act 1908.
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Jo Grimond 1913-1993
David Steel’s commemoration lecture, given at Firth Kirk, Finstown, Orkney, 18 May 2013.
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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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‘A nasty, deplorable little incident in our political life’
Liberalism, National Liberalism and the editorship of the Dumfries Standard, 1957.