Review
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The man who sold the honours
Review of Andrew Cook, Cash for Honours: The Story of Maundy Gregory (The History Press, 2008).
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Northern Liberal
Review of Alan Beith, A View from the North (Northumbria University Press, 2008).
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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).
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Scarborough politicians
Review of Anne and Paul Bayliss, Scarborough’s MPs 1832 to 1906; Scarborough’s Mayors 1836 to 1906; A Biographical Dictionary (A. M. Bayliss).
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Testament of hope
Review of Shirley Williams, Climbing the Bookshelves (Virago Press, 2009).
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The end of the affair
Review of Mark Oaten, Screwing Up (Biteback, 2009).
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Railwayman and MP
Review of Adrian Vaughan, Samuel Morton Peto: A Victorian Entrepreneur (Ian Allan, 2009).
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Too short a history
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party: The Road Back to Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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Modernising the state
Review of Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale University Press, 2009).