A tale of two symbols
Review of Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Reviews from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Review of Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Review of H. V. Emy, Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics, 1892-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1973; reprinted 2008).
Review of Richard Overy, The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars (Allen Lane, 2009).
Review of Andrew Cook, Cash for Honours: The Story of Maundy Gregory (The History Press, 2008).
Review of Alan Beith, A View from the North (Northumbria University Press, 2008).
Review of John Campbell, Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Year of Political Rivalry, from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown (Jonathan Cape, 2009).
Review of Anne and Paul Bayliss, Scarborough’s MPs 1832 to 1906; Scarborough’s Mayors 1836 to 1906; A Biographical Dictionary (A. M. Bayliss).
Review of Shirley Williams, Climbing the Bookshelves (Virago Press, 2009).
Review of Mark Oaten, Screwing Up (Biteback, 2009).
Review of Adrian Vaughan, Samuel Morton Peto: A Victorian Entrepreneur (Ian Allan, 2009).
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party: The Road Back to Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Review of Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale University Press, 2009).
Review of Hugh Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolutions (Profile Books, 2009).
Review of Kevin Hickson (ed.), The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945 (Manchester University Press, 2009).
Review of Ophelia Field, The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation (HarperPress, 2008).
Review of David Laws, 22 Days in May (Biteback, 2010) and Rob Wilson, 5 Days to Power (Biteback, 2010).
Review of J. Graham Jones, Lloyd George and Welsh Liberalism (National Library of Wales, 2010).
Review of Kevin Theakston, After Number 10: Former Prime Ministers in British Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Review of Mark Egan, Coming into Focus: The Transformation of the Liberal Party 1945-1964 (VDM Verlag Dr Muller, 2009).
Review of Matthew Cragoe and Paul Readman (eds.), The Land Question in Britain 1750-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).