Review
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Press, politics and culture in Victorian Britain
A comparative review of W. Sydney Robinson, Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead – Britain’s first investigative journalist (Robson Press, 2012); P. Brighton, Original Spin: Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain (I.B. Tauris, 2016); and G. Cordery and J. S. Meisel (eds.), The Humours of Parliament: Harry Furniss’ View…
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Boris’s Winston
Review of Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014).
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Cornwall: culture, character and campaigns
Review of John Ault, Liberal Democrats in Cornwall – Culture, Character or Campaigns? (CreateSpace, 2015).
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Liberals and Labour
Review of James Owen, Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 (Liverpool University Press, 2014).
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Autocrat or cipher?
Review of James Murphy, Ireland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868–86 (University College Dublin Press, 2014).
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‘Competition, individualism, responsibility, invention and patents’
Review of Tony Holden, Holden’s Ghosts: The Life and times of Sir Isaac Holden – inventor, woolcomber and radical Liberal MP (Kindle edition, 2015).
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Lloyd George in cartoons
Review of Alan Mumford, David Lloyd George: A Biography in Cartoons (Matador, 2014).
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Tony Benn’s father
Review of Alun Wyburn-Powell, Political Wings: William Wedgwood Benn, First Viscount Stansgate (Pen & Sword Aviation, 2015).
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The economic policies and initiatives of the Liberal Party
Review of Peter Sloman, The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929–1964, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford University Press, 2014).