The Liberal unionists and their leaders. (Federation pamph.).
Author : William Summers
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : William Summers
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Williams Summers
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Williams Summers
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Summers, William
Publisher : Manchester : National Reform Union, [19--?]
Page : pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Ian Cawood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857736523
The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political parties in British history. It was formed in 1886 by a faction of the Liberal party, led by Lord Hartington, which opposed Irish home rule. In 1895, it entered into a coalition government with the Conservative party and in 1912, now under the leadership of Joseph Chamberlain, it amalgamated with the Conservatives. Ian Cawood here uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first complete study of the Liberal Unionist party. He argues that the party was a genuinely successful political movement with widespread activist and popular support which resulted in the development of an authentic Liberal Unionist culture across Britain in the mid-1890s. The issues which this book explores are central to an understanding of the development of the twentieth century Conservative party, the emergence of a 'national' political culture, and the problems, both organisational and ideological, of a sustained period of coalition in the British parliamentary system.
Author : Ulster Liberal Unionist Association
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Liberal Publication Department (Great Britain)
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Page : 702 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Andrew Reekes
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Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2018-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1905036469
The British electorate swelled dramatically with the passing of the Second Reform Act in 1867. This presented the political class with a significant challenge. Here was a large, new electorate which needed to be understood, managed, enthused, and persuaded to vote for the right candidate in local and parliamentary elections. From this time onwards education and democratic involvement of these new voters became vital for political success. In Birmingham, the town of a thousand trades, Joseph Chamberlain and his allies were faced with an electorate which had tripled in size overnight and many of whom had never previously voted or participated in politics. In response, Joseph Chamberlain and his close-knit Birmingham team developed national campaigns on issues such as universal education, democracy and tariff reform which required new methods for propagating and winning arguments that resonated across all classes and interests. At the same time they colonised Birmingham's town council, school board and other municipal bodies where they gained the practical political experience which they could transfer to the national stage. For the first time The Birmingham Political Machine lays bare how Joseph Chamberlain with his colleagues and friends was so successful that never before or since has one politician monopolised regional power as Joseph Chamberlain did for more than thirty years in the West Midlands. He made it his invincible fortress. From now on British politics would never be the same and the techniques developed by the Birmingham Machine can still be seen today.
Author : Liberal Publication Department (Great Britain)
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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Eugenio F. Biagini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1991-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521394550
'Those who were originally called radicals and afterwards reformers, are called Chartists', declared Thomas Duncombe before Parliament in 1842, a comment which can be adapted for a later period and as a description of this collection of papers: 'those who were originally called Chartists were afterwards called Liberal and Labour activists'. In other words, the central argument of this book is that there was a substantial continuity in popular radicalism throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The papers stress both the popular elements in Gladstonian Liberalism and the radical liberal elements in the early Labour party. The first part of the book focuses on the continuity of popular attitudes across the commonly-assumed mid-century divide, with studies of significant personalities and movements, as well as a local case study. The second part examines the strong links between Gladstonian Liberalism and the working classes, looking in particular at labour law, taxation, and the Irish crisis. The final part assesses the impact of radical traditions on early Labour politics, in Parliament, the unions, and local government. The same attitudes towards liberty, the rule of law, and local democracy are highlighted throughout, and new questions are therefore posed about the major transitions in the popular politics of the period.