‘Unquestionably a remarkable woman’
Review of Janet Hilderley, Mrs Catherine Gladstone (The Alpha Press, 2013).
Review
Reviews from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Reassessing John Stuart Mill
Review of Frederick Rosen, Mill (Oxford University Press, 2013)
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It’s Boy David
Review of David Torrance, David Steel: Rising Hope to Elder Statesman (Biteback Publishing, 2012)
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Women and the Liberal Democrats
Review of Dr Elizabeth Evans, Gender and the Liberal Democrats – Representing Women? (Manchester University Press, 2011)
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Liberal defectors identified and explored
Review of Alun Wyburn-Powell, Defectors and the Liberal Party, 1910-2010: A Study of Inter-Party Relations (Manchester University Press, 2012).
You don’t have to be mad to work there, but …
Review of J. B. Williams, Worsted to Westminster: The Extraordinary Life of Rev. Dr Charles Leach MP (Darcy Press, 2009).
Son of Asquith?
Review of Bobbie Neate, Conspiracy of Secrets (John Blake, 2012).
Elegant and concise
Review of David Dutton, A History of the Liberal Party Since 1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition, 2013).
Don’t buy this book!
Review of Jesse Russell and Ronald Cohn, Wallace Lawler (Bookvika Publishing, 2012).
Morley and the Liberal Party
Review of Patrick Jackson, Morley of Blackburn (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012).
Of Liberals and Liberalism
Review of Duncan Brack (ed.), The Dictionary of Liberal Quotations (Biteback Publishing, 2013).
Son of the Grand Old Man
Review of Ros Aitken, The Prime Minister’s Son: Stephen Gladstone, Rector of Hawarden (University of Chester Press, 2012).
Art at the National Liberal Club
Review of Michael Meadowcroft, A Guide to the Works of Art of the National Liberal Club, London (National Liberal Club, 2012).
Views of Peel
Review of Richard A. Gaunt, Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy (I. B. Tauris, 2010).
Bitterest allies
Review of Ian Cawood, The Liberal Unionist Party: A History (I.B. Tauris, 2012).
Scapegoat for Liberalism?
Review of Antony Lentin, Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer (Haus, 2013).
Online reviews
Introduction to Reviews in History for Journal of Liberal History readers.
Liberals in Ulster
Review of Gerald R. Hall, Ulster Liberalism 1778-1876 (Four Courts Press, 2011).
Liberal Sutton
Review of A Flagship Borough: 25 years of a Liberal Democrat Sutton Council (Sutton Liberal Democrats, 2012).
2010 analysed
Review of Robert Worcester and Roger Mortimore, Explaining Cameron’s Coalition (Biteback Publishing, 2011).