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Hace 2 días · Date accessed: 25 May, 2024. After two substantial volumes of biography, and numerous shorter and related studies, Richard Shannon has again returned to the life of William Ewart Gladstone. This new work is not apparently intended as a simple distillation of his Gladstone: Peel’s Inheritor (1982) and Gladstone: Heroic Minister (1999).
Hace 4 días · Churchill put his indelible mark on the writing of 20th-century international and British history. Ruth Clayton Windscheffel invites us to move our attention away from the politician as author to the politician as reader in her impressive and well-grounded study of William Gladstone.
Hace 3 días · This is certainly a view that William Gladstone encouraged, most famously in his ‘masses against the classes’ speech, seeking thereby to impugn the motives of his heretical former colleagues. More recent historians, from the 1970s onwards, have questioned this view, seeing the Liberal Unionists as motivated more by ideology than ...
Hace 14 horas · In the 1850s, British scholar and soon-to-be Prime Minister William Gladstone became one of the first to claim that ancient works were written in a blue-less era. Perhaps the most infamous instance of this omission was in Homer’s Odyssey , an ancient Greek poem cataloging the trials and tribulations of mortal humans in a world of gods and myth.
Hace 1 día · William Gladstone served as prime minister four times (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, and 1892–94). His financial policies, based on the notion of balanced budgets , low taxes and laissez-faire , were suited to a developing capitalist society, but they could not respond effectively as economic and social conditions changed.
Hace 4 días · Major renovations were initiated by Benjamin Disraeli (1868, 1874–80) and William Gladstone (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94) to make the house, which had fallen into disrepair, once again livable and to modernize its facilities.
Hace 1 día · The borough constituency existed until 1885, when it was replaced by a county division of the same name under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 . The future Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, began his political career as Member of Parliament for Newark from 1832 to 1845.
