Journal of Liberal History 114

The Liberal Party and the American Civil War
Eugenio Biagini introduces this special issue of the Journal of Liberal History

Letting someone else have your way
The Palmerston Ministry’s foreign policy and the American Civil War; by Duncan Andrew Campbell

‘The voice of reason’
John Bright and his relationship with the Union during the American Civil War; by Shannon Westwood

John Stuart Mill, moral outrage and the American Civil War
Timothy Larsen traces Mill’s contribution to developing Liberal support for the North

‘An undoubted error, the most singular and palpable’
Gladstone and the American Civil War; by Tony Little

Commerce, conscience and constitutions
Graham Lippiatt examines the motives of two Liberals who supported the Confederacy

The American Civil War and the British women’s movement
Alastair Reid examines how British women anti-slavery campaigners reacted to the war