Sacred Mysteries: The prime minister who rehearsed for death
In my bathroom hangs a photograph of William Gladstone in 1898, dead on a bier in his library at home in Hawarden, lying in ...
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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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ENGLISH AFFAIRS.; THE GENERAL ELECTION DISRAELI'S MANIFESTO.
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Books: Skittish Muse
BONNET AND SHAWL—Philip Guedalla—Putnam ($3.50). Longfellow, distinctly out of fashion at the moment, wrote sententiously to the effect that lives of great men all remind us we can make our ...
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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 ...
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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 ...