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William Gladstone: Britain’s Record-Breaking Prime Minister
The Victorian era featured many political giants. Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury are some obvious examples. Yet the man who spent the most time as prime minister was none other ...
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Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, whose bitter personal rivalry dominated British politics ...
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Why Britain became more democratic, 1851–1928
Disraeli persuaded his supporters that the ... extension of the franchise to include the urban working class. In 1864 Gladstone, the future Liberal Prime Minister, had declared that "Every man ...
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William and Catherine Gladstone
His was the first State funeral since that of William Pitt (Benjamin Disraeli's family having declined the honour for him). Gladstone was the first to have a public lying in state in Westminster Hall ...
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Pressure for democratic reform up to 1884
Disraeli persuaded his supporters that the ... extension of the franchise to include the urban working class. In 1864 Gladstone, the future Liberal Prime Minister, had declared that "Every man ...