Extract from Gladstone's 3rd Midlothian speech on foreign policy Following his electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned the Liberal leadership and, in his sixties, hoped to spend the rest of his life in retirement. The Balkan Massacres of 1876 drew him back to...
Gladstonian Liberalism Few statesmen left a deeper and more permanent mark on British Liberalism than William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). What secured a unique place for him in the history of Liberalism was not simply the...
Hawarden Kite In November 1885 the Irish Nationalist leader, Charles Stewart Parnell proposed an independent constitution for Ireland and although the Liberal leader, William Gladstone, believed in the necessity o...
The Midlothian Campaign A year after the defeat of his government in 1874, William Ewart Gladstone retired as leader of the Liberal Party. At 65, he deeply desired an interval between parliament and the grave to devote to r...
Remember The Rights of The Savage Following his electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned the Liberal leadership and, in his sixties, hoped to spend the rest of his life in retirement. The Balkan Massacres of 1876 drew him back to...
Edison's recording of Gladstone The Gladstone recording would originally have been made on a cylinder for the phonograph which Thomas Edison announced to the world in 1877. ...
Great Liberals John Stuart Mill chosen as greatest British Liberal ...
Gladstone tried repeatedly to resolve the problem of Ireland. This article argues that his efforts were doomed to failure because of his own prejudices and preconceptions.
Report of History Group meeting of 25 January 2010, with Dr Eugenio Biagini and Chris Huhne MP. Chair: William Wallace (Hon. President, Liberal Democrat History Group).
Bebbington: The Mind of Gladstone; Dale (ed.): The Politico’s Book of the Dead; Lynch: The Liberal Party in Rural England 1885-1910; Brack and Dale (eds.): Prime Minister Portillo and Other Things that Never Happened
Peter C. Erb, J. Graham Jones, Tony Little and Mark Pack
Peter Gray: Famine, Land and Politics; David Bebbington Roger Swift: The Gladstone Centenary Essays; Stephen Howe: Ireland and Empire; Gordon Gillespie: Albert H. McElroy: the Radical Minister.
Iain Sharpe, Tony Little, Michael Steed and Bob Bell
Review of Mary E. Daly and Theordore Hoppen (eds.), Gladstone: Ireland and
Beyond (Four Courts Press, 2011).
Events
What's left of Gladstonian Liberalism in the Liberal Democrats? Monday 25 January 2010 Since the publication of The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism edited by David Laws and Paul Marshall in 2004, there has been an ongoing discussion in the Liberal Democrats about whether the party n...
The Legacy of Gladstone Monday 20 July 1998 In the centenary year of Gladstones death, this meeting looked at three crucial aspects of the life of the most famous Liberal Prime Minister.
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The Legacy of Gladstone Wednesday 26 June 1996 Colin Matthew joint editor of the Gladstone Diaries; author of the definitive biographies, Gladstone 1809-1874 and Gladstone 1875-1898; Editor, Dictionary of National Biography.
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