Time Period: 1886-1895
Churchill Archives Centre
Liberal archives at the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge.
Sir Walter Runciman and the Runciman papers at Elshieshields Tower
The life and political career of the Liberal MP Sir Walter Runciman (1847–1937) through the lens of his papers.
Press, politics and culture in Victorian Britain
A comparative review of W. Sydney Robinson, Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead – Britain’s first investigative journalist (Robson Press, 2012); P. Brighton, Original Spin: Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain (I.B. Tauris, 2016); and G. Cordery and J. S. Meisel (eds.), The Humours of Parliament: Harry Furniss’ View…
‘I feel I am placed at a very great disadvantage’
Sir James Whitehead (1834–1917): the parliamentary travails of a Liberal meritocrat.
Cambridge University Liberal Club, 1886–1916
A study in early university political organisation.
Liberalism’s Radical Lord Chancellor
The life and political career of Robert Threshie Reid, Lord Loreburn, 1846–1923.
Assessing Edward Grey
Review of Michael Waterhouse, Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (Biteback, 2013).
A history of by-elections
Review of T. G. Otte and Paul Readman (eds.), By-elections in British politics 1832–1914 (Boydell, 2013).