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| Acknowledgements | ||
| List of abbreviations | ||
| Note on the text | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Themes and problems | 1 | |
| Who were the popular liberals? | 8 | |
| A note on the sources | 20 | |
| Pt. I | Liberty and Retrenchment | 30 |
| The language of popular liberalism | 31 | |
| The Bible and the Phrygian cap | 31 | |
| From the Reformation to the Risorgimento | 41 | |
| The 'people' against 'privilege' | 50 | |
| The 'coming republic'? | 60 | |
| The 'Great Republic of the West' | 67 | |
| 2 | The social contract | 84 |
| 'Independence' and laissez-faire: The pastoral dream | 84 | |
| The 'moral economy' of free trade | 93 | |
| Gladstone and the plebeian financial reformers | 103 | |
| Tory 'profligacy' and Liberal crusades | 119 | |
| 3 | The social question | 139 |
| The search for 'independence': the ways of solidarity | 139 | |
| Trades unions and civil liberty | 148 | |
| Exceptions to the rule of laissez-faire: the Factory Acts | 164 | |
| Exceptions to the rule of laissez-faire: poor relief, the drink question and municipal socialism | 173 | |
| Exceptions to the rule of laissez-faire: the land question | 184 | |
| 4 | Anti-clericalism | 192 |
| Education and human emancipation | 192 | |
| The 1870 Education Act and its aftermath | 198 | |
| The dynamic of popular liberal anti-clericalism | 217 | |
| 'Free churches in a free state': the disestablishment question | 228 | |
| Pt. II | Reform | 256 |
| 5 | The Franchise Question | 257 |
| The appeal of the reformers | 257 | |
| The platform of plebeian reform | 264 | |
| The Reform Act of 1867 | 275 | |
| The revival of 'manhood suffrage' | 278 | |
| The missing revival of 'manhood suffrage' | 288 | |
| The agitation for the Third Reform Bill | 295 | |
| The end of the 'agitations' | 302 | |
| 6 | Parliament and Community | 313 |
| Parliament and electors | 313 | |
| The local community and its self-government | 319 | |
| The party and its forms | 328 | |
| 'Direct' representation | 337 | |
| The Lib-labs and their constituents | 346 | |
| 7 | The charismatic leader | 369 |
| The need for a charismatic leader | 370 | |
| The 'People's William', 1862-1876 | 379 | |
| The Bulgarian agitation and the origins of the 'demagogue' | 385 | |
| The cult of the leader | 395 | |
| The epic of Midlothian | 405 | |
| The GOM in the 1880s | 416 | |
| Bibliography | 426 | |
| Index | 463 |
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Anna Hester
reviewed Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880 on May 10, 2016 Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880
Worth reading the new version with postscript by John Golding's successor as Newcastle Under Lyme's MP. The parallels with today and the guide to action is clear.
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