Types of Article: Review
Virtues and flaws
Review of Richard Shannon, Gladstone: Heroic Minister 1865-1898 (Penguin Press, 1999).
The peers and the people
Review of John Wells, The House of Lords: An Anecdotal History (Hodder & Stoughton, 1998).
The two Mr Gladstones
Review of Travis L. Crosby, The Two Mr Gladstones (Yale University Press, 1997).
The watchword liberty
Review of, 50 Years On: A History of the Association of Liberal Democrat Trade Unionists, 1947-97 (Association of Liberal Democrat Trade Unionists, 1997).
Radical failure
Review of Miles Taylor, The Decline of British Radicalism 1847-1860 (Oxford University Press, 1995).
Keeping the peace?
Review of T Bartlett & K Jeffrey (eds.), A Military History of Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Great and terrible occasions
Review of Christopher Silvester (ed.), The Pimlico Companion to Parliament (Pimlico, 1997).
‘The only being who elects without voting, governs without law’
Review of K. D. Reynolds, Aristrocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain (Oxford University Press, 1998).
The last Liberal landlord
Review of Gerard J. De Groot, Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair (Hurst & Co.,1993).
Plugging the gaps
Review of Duncan Brack et al (eds.), Dictionary of Liberal Biography (Politico’s Publishing, 1998).