In 1998 an international conference brought Gladstone scholars together to mark the centenary of his death, and some of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. They cover topics such as parliamentary reform and free trade.
by Bebbington, David, Swift, Roger
fromLiverpool Latin American Studies
W.E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for f…
The figure of William Gladstone continues to loom-large in the history of nineteenth-century Britain. Not only was he Prime Minister four times and leader of the Liberal Party for over three decades, but he also took an active interest in the intellectual, imperial, military, cu…
"By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This study argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrume…
-- American Historical Review.
On 8 June 1886 William Gladstone urged a crowded House of Commons to think 'not for the moment, but for the years that are to come' and vote for a Bill conferring domestic self-government on Ireland. This dramatic scene has only a handful of parallels in British history and mark…
