Gladstone Studies

‘The last quarter of the nineteenth century should have been the era of Randolph Churchill, Joseph Chamberlain and Parnell. Instead, it remained the age of a very elderly figure who would not retire and whom a vast portion of the electorate did not want to do so’ (p. 30). So writes the late Frank Turner in the first article of this eclectic and insightful new collection on William Gladstone. Most Victorian Prime Ministers can claim a cottage industry of historians working on them with a number of scholars who have written the key study or biography; Peel has Norman Gash and Disraeli has Robert Blake. What is remarkable about Gladstone are the huge number of historians who have devoted themselves to making sense of his achievement. This collection ends with a superb bibliography prepared by Roger Swift showing us the range of Gladstone Studies. It runs to twenty-seven pages

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