Review
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Why bother with the Liberals again?
Review of David Dutton, A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2004).
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‘Nothing talked of, thought of, dreamt of, but Reform’
Review of Edward Pearce, Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act (Pimlico, 2004).
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The double Duchess and a violently moderate man
Review of Henry Vane, Affair of State: A Biography of the 8th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (Peter Owen, 2004).
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Permission campaigning
Review of Paul Richards, How to Win an Election (2nd edition; Politico’s 2004).
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The diary of a somebody
Review of John Vincent (ed.), The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-93): A Selection (Leopard’s Head Press, 2003).
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Politics and theology
Review of David W. Bebbington, The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2004).
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Former politicians remembered
Review of Iain Dale (ed.), The Politico’s Book of the Dead (Politico’s, 2003).
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‘God made the land for the people’
Review of Patricia Lynch, The Liberal Party in Rural England 1885-1910: Radicalism and Community (Clarendon Press, 2003).
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Things that never happened
Review of Duncan Brack and Iain Dale (eds.), Prime Minister Portillo and other things that never happened (Politico’s, 2003).