Review
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Review: How the Liberal Party fared 1939-45
Review of Andrew Thorpe, Parties at War: Political Organisation in Second World War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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Land and nation in England
Review of Paul Readman, Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 (Royal Historical Society, 2008).
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A tale of two symbols
Review of Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2008).
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Edwardian Liberalism
Review of H. V. Emy, Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics, 1892-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1973; reprinted 2008).
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British intellectual life, 1918-39
Review of Richard Overy, The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars (Allen Lane, 2009).
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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).