Types of Article: Review
250 High Streets later…
Review of Mark D’Arcy & Rory Maclean, Nightmare! The Race to Become London’s Mayor (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
New leader, new book
Review of Charles Kennedy, The Future of Politics (HarperCollins, 2000).
More mirage than vision
Review of Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (University of Exeter Press, 2000).
Unremembered – but not forgotten
Review of G. W. Keeton James, A Liberal Attorney-General; Being the Life of Lord Robson of Jesmond, 1852-1918, with an Account of the Office of Attorney-General, etc. (Nisbet & Co, 1949).
I blame Sir Edward Grey
Review of John Charmley, Splendid Isolation? Britain and the Balance of Power 1874-1914 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999).
Last of the Gang…
Review of Bill Rodgers, Fourth Among Equals (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
Whigs, Liberals and History
Review of Victor Feske, From Belloc to Churchill: Private scholars, public culture and the crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
Neville Chamberlain: Policy Wonk
Review of Graham Stewart, Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999).
Nearly an Eminent Victorian
Review of Roland Hill, Lord Acton (Yale University Press, 2000).
Cartoons galore
Review of Alan Mumford: Drawn at the Hustings: General elections 1722-1935 in caricature and cartoon (Burke’s Peerage and Gentry, 2011).