Gladstone Centenary Essays
David Bebbington and Roger Swift
Abstract
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 four separate terms. In 1998, an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. Covering the whole of the statesman's long political life from the first Reform Act to the ... More
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 four separate terms. In 1998, an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. Covering the whole of the statesman's long political life from the first Reform Act to the last decade of the nineteenth century, they range over topics as diverse as parliamentary reform and free trade, Gladstone's English Nonconformist supporters, and his Irish Unionist opponents. The collection forms a tribute, appreciative but critical, to the Grand Old Man of British politics.
Keywords:
W. E. Gladstone,
financial rectitude,
Irish question,
Reform Act,
parliamentary reform,
free trade,
English Nonconformists,
Irish Unionists
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2000 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780853239253 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 |
DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846313202 |
