Time Period: 1688-1830
What Have the Liberals Ever Done for Us? Book Launch
Liberal Democrat History Group conference fringe meeting: 23 September 2023 with Layla Moran MP, Sarah Olney MP, Wendy Chamberlain MP and Baroness Barker; Chair: Lord Wallace of Saltaire
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
An English radical, whose advocacy of equal rights for women and men attracted considerable attention in her lifetime, Wollstonecraft has subsequently acquired a reputation as the pre-eminent feminist polemicist of her day. Wollstonecraft was born on 27 April 1759 in Spitalfields, London, the second of seven children of Edward John Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dixon. Her…
The Black Book and the reform of public life in early nineteenth-century Britain
An exposé of corruption which contributed to parliamentary reform, the roots of Liberalism and modern definitions of corruption and standards in public life.
The Peterloo massacre
Review of Jacqueline Riding, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre (Head of Zeus, 2018); Polyp, Eva Schlunke and Robert Poole, Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre (New Internationalist, 2019); Robert Poole, Peterloo: The English Uprising (Oxford University Press, 2019).
The Peterloo Massacre and Nineteenth-Century Popular Radicalism
Evening meeting, 16 July 2019, with Robert Poole and Jacqueline Riding; chair: Liz Barker.
The Pisan Triumvirate
The Libertine, the Atheist, and The Liberal.
‘Not straight but serpentine’
George Canning and the origins of nineteenth-century Liberalism.