Review
Gladstone 1809-1874
Review of H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1874 (Oxford University Press, 1988).
Vacillating statesman
Review of Arthur Aspinall, Lord Brougham and the Whig Party (Originally published 1927; reprinted Nonsuch, 2005).
Churchill reinterpreted
Review of Richard Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill (BBC Books, 2005).
The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration 1886-1929
Review of G. R. Searle, The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration 1886-1929 (Macmillan, 1992).
Reviews: Issue 10
Reviews of Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party 1914-1935 (Collins, 1966); Michael and Eleanor Brock (eds.), H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley (Oxford University Press, 1982).
Survival and revival
Review of Mark Egan, Coming into Focus: The Transformation of the Liberal Party 1945-1964 (VDM Verlag Dr Muller, 2009).
Too short a history
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party: The Road Back to Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Eight case studies of notorious political rivals
Review of John Campbell, Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Year of Political Rivalry, from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown (Jonathan Cape, 2009).
‘A Little Chit of a Fellow’
Review of Ian R. Grimwood, A Little Chit of a Fellow: a biography of the Right Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha (Guild Publishing, 2006).