Themes: Liberal thought and thinkers
Think Liberal: The ‘Dictionary of Liberal Thought’
Report of History Group meeting, March 2007 (Harrogate), with David Howarth MP and Michael Meadowcroft.
Think Liberal
Review of Duncan Brack and Ed Randall (eds.), Dictionary of Liberal Thought (Politico’s Publishing, 2007).
T. H. Green: Forgotten Liberal?
Arguments for T. H. Green as the greatest British Liberal.
Greatest of the Liberal philosophers
Review of Richard Reeves, John Stuart Mill, Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, 2007).
John Stuart Mill’s ‘On Liberty’ 150 years later
An analysis of the most well-known work of the greatest of the Victorian Liberal philosophers, published 150 years ago this year, and an assessment of its relevance to 2009.
Thomas Paine
What was the impact of Thomas Paine on Liberalism and liberal thought?
Liberal thought
Review of Kevin Hickson (ed.), The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945 (Manchester University Press, 2009).
John Stuart Mill and the Liberal Party
Analysis of the impact of the Victorian Liberal philosopher on his party.
Think Liberal: The Dictionary of Liberal Thought
‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ Locke, Bentham, Mill, Hobhouse, Keynes, Rawls … Liberalism has been built on more than three centuries work of political thinkers and writers, and the aspirations of countless human beings who have fought for freedom, democracy, the rule of law and open…