Time Period: 1859-1886
Religion and politics
Religion and politics. The impact of the Bradlaugh case on the Berwick-upon-Tweed by-elections of 1880 and 1881.
How did the Empire strike back?
The impact of imperialism on democracy and liberalism in Britrain 1865-1920.
The farm workers champion
Biography of one of the first working men to be elected to Parliament, Joseph Arch (1826-1919).
Sir Jerom Murch and the civic gospel in Victorian Bath
Analysis of the municipal record of the leader of Bath’s Victorian Liberals.
Value for money
The story of novelist Anthony Trollope’s campaign for Beverley in Yorkshire in 1868.
The legacy of Gladstone
The Grand Old Man’s record.
‘He would not stoop, he did not conquer’
Review of Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery (Phoenix, 1995).
Gladstone and the Conservative collapse
Analysis of the article on The Conservative Collapse in the Fortnightly Review of 1 May 1880, published anonymously but written by Gladstone.
Sir Edward Watkin and the Liberal cause in the nineteenth century
The life of Liberal MP Edward Watkin, the last of the railway kings.
Gladstone 1809-1874
Review of H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1874 (Oxford University Press, 1988).