Types of Article: Review
Public office and public trust
Review of Mark Knights, Trust & Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600–1850 (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Liberal navy or Conservative army?
Review of Andrew Lambert, The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the battle for a national strategy (Yale University Press, 2021)
From Addis Ababa to Downing Street
Review of Jonny Oates, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Biteback, 2020)
A life of public service
Review of Stephen Hart, James Chuter Ede: Humane Reformer and Politician – Liberal and Labour traditions (Pen and Sword Books, 2021)
The complexities of imperial governance
Review of Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell, Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
‘Everything to Everybody’
Review of Andrew Reekes and Stephen Roberts, George Dawson and His Circle (Merlin Press, 2021)
Life applied to a political theory
Review of Adam Gopnik, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (Riverrun, 2020)
The local press and Victorian culture
Review of Andrew Hobbs, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855–1900 (Open Book Publishers, 2018)
Women MPs, 1997–2019
Review of Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith (eds.), The Honourable Ladies, Vol. 2 (Biteback Publications, 2019)
To be a Liberal
Review of Ian Dunt, How to be a Liberal (Canbury Press, 2020)