Types of Article: Review
The great chain which connects
Review of David Cannadine, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (Penguin, 2002).
‘Parliament has never granted any important reform without being bullied’
Review of Martin Pugh, The Pankhursts (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2001).
Too short a history
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 (Palgrave, 2002).
Too many numbers
Review of David Boyle, The Tyranny of Numbers: Why counting can’t make us happy (Harper Collins, 2001).
‘And some have greatness thrust upon then’
Review of Roy Jenkins, Churchill (Macmillan, 2001).
A well-connected Liberal in the court of Queen Victoria
Review of William Kuhn, Henry & Mary Ponsonby (Duckworth, 2002).
Of rogues and ruin
Review of David McKie, Jabez – The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue (Atlantic Books 2004).
Is the future orange?
Review of Paul Marshall and David Laws (eds.), The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism (Profile Books, 2004).
A writer and pragmatist at the Liberal High Table
Review of John Powell (ed.), Liberal by Principle: The Politics of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, 1843-1902 (The Historians Press, 1996).
The most complex character
Review of Antony Lentin, Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: From Versailles to Hitler, 1914-1940 (Palgrave, 2001).