Review
Analysing coalitions
Review of Mark Oaten, Coalition: The Politics and Personalities of Coalition Government from 1850 (Harriman House, 2007).
Liberalism in Germany and the Netherlands
Review of Patrick van Schie and Gerrit Voerman (eds.), The Dividing Line Between Success and Failure: a Comparison of Liberalism in the Netherlands and Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Lit Verlag, 2006).
The two great wartime leaders
Review of Richard Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (Macmillan, 2007).
Man of contradictions
Review of Arthur H. Cash, John Wilkes, The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty (Yale University Press, 2006).
From Catherine Walpole to Cherie Blair
Review of Mark Hichens, Prime Ministers’ Wives – and One Husband (Peter Owen, 2004).
Wales of the future
Review of Dewi Rowland Hughes, Cymru Fydd (University of Wales Press, 2006).
Liberals and the 1945 election (1)
Review of Malcolm Baines, The Liberal Party and the 1945 General Election (Contemporary Record 9:1, Summer 1995).
‘The representative man’
Reviews of Kenneth Bourne, Palmerston: The Early Years 1783-1841 (Allen Lane, 1982) and Donald Southgate, The Most English Minister (Macmillan, 1966).
The high summer of Victorian Liberalism
Review of Ian Bradley, The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism (Faber & Faber, 1980).