Article: Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880.

At no point during the Victorian period was the identity of the Liberal party (Gladstonian or otherwise) devoid of problematic elements. For analytical purposes, those elements can be assigned to one of two categories: that which chiefly concerns the bonding agents and fissiparous forces at work among those in parliament occupying some portion of the non-Tory political spectrum; and that which chiefly concerns the relation between party within parliament and politics without. Of the books reviewed here, those by Newbould and Steele, each of which addresses a discrete block of time between the First and Second Reform Acts, may not reduce to manageable proportions the ...

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