Tony Little

Chairman of the Liberal Democrat History Group and former leader of the Liberal Group on Hillingdon Council

Events (chair)

Tony Little chaired the following events on behalf of the Liberal Democrat History Group:

• Election 2010 in historical perspective
• Liberal Democrats in Europe, 21 years of success or failure?
• Salad days: merger twenty years on
• Winston Churchill: A Liberal Politician

Histories (author)

Tony Little is the author of the following histories:

• Earl of Aberdeen (George Hamilton-Gordon), 1784-1860
• William Edward Forster, 1818-1886
• Chamberlain’s Radical Programme
• Extract from Gladstone’s 3rd Midlothian speech on foreign policy
• Remember The Rights of The Savage
• The Age of Russell and Palmerston, 1846-1868
• Lord John Russell (Earl Russell), 1792-1878
• Marquess of Hartington (Duke of Devonshire), 1833-1908
• Earl of Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose), 1847-1929
• Earl Granville (Granville George Leveson Gower), 1815-1891
• The Newcastle Programme
• Viscount Palmerston (Henry John Temple), 1784-1865
• Gladstone’’s Parliamentary Record 1868-1900
• Gladstone’s first government
• A torrent of gin and beer: the election defeat in 1874
• The Liberals in opposition 1875-1880
• The Midlothian Campaign
• Gladstone’‘s second government
• The Home Rule crisis

Journal Articles (author)

Tony Little is the author of the following journal articles:

• ‘He would not stoop, he did not conquer’
• Gladstone 1809-1874
• Gladstone: further reading
• Victorian Liberals
• Money and power
• A real drag
• ‘A dynamic force is a terrible thing’
• ‘The representative man’
• Education – back to our roots
• A working class radical
• Reviews: Issue 10
• Keeping the peace?
• The evolution of devolution
• Must governments fail
• The unknown Prime Minister
• Building the Party
• You don’t have to be mad to work there, but …
• Bitterest allies
• New perspectives on Gladstone
• A tale of two symbols
• Report: Gladstone Bicentenary Conference
• Exploding the delusion of protection
• Value for money
• Pioneering spirit
• Promoting progress everywhere
• No one likes us, we don’t care
• Breaking the mould?
• Landowner and minister
• ‘There are things stronger than parliamentary majorities
• The peers and the people
• ‘The only being who elects without voting, governs without law’
• Research Notes: issue 20
• The two Mr Gladstones
• Some Gladstonian attitudes
• Report: Only Connect
• A visit to Hawarden
• W. E. Gladstone: Lessons and Legacy
• Great and terrible occasions