Types of Article: Review
Ploughing his own furrow
Review of Norman Baker, Against the Grain (Biteback Publishing, 2015).
Reform and reformers
Review of Michael Thomas and Peter Urbach, Commemorating Reform and Reformers, Volume 1: The Reform Club’s Collection of Ceramic and Other Objects Commemorating Reform and Those who Campaigned for it (Reform Club, 2014).
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…
Boris’s Winston
Review of Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014).
Cornwall: culture, character and campaigns
Review of John Ault, Liberal Democrats in Cornwall – Culture, Character or Campaigns? (CreateSpace, 2015).
Liberals and Labour
Review of James Owen, Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 (Liverpool University Press, 2014).
Autocrat or cipher?
Review of James Murphy, Ireland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868–86 (University College Dublin Press, 2014).
‘Competition, individualism, responsibility, invention and patents’
Review of Tony Holden, Holden’s Ghosts: The Life and times of Sir Isaac Holden – inventor, woolcomber and radical Liberal MP (Kindle edition, 2015).
Lloyd George in cartoons
Review of Alan Mumford, David Lloyd George: A Biography in Cartoons (Matador, 2014).