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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 505-519, December 2025.
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
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Metaphors of Political Identity: Disraeli and the Visual Rhetoric of Punch

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
In addition to being frequently featured in Punch’s satirical squibs, Benjamin Disraeli was the subject of their full-page cartoons for almost forty years.
Robert O’Kell
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‘Constitutional Alienation’ and the Unionist Party during the Ulster Crisis, 1911–1914

Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 400-420, October 2025.
Abstract This article argues for the importance of the Unionists’ constitutional philosophy in the party's opposition to the third Irish Home Rule Bill. In the aftermath of the 1911 Parliament Act, which removed the house of lords’ veto, Unionists underwent ‘constitutional alienation’.
Ben Sayle
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Disraeli’s Late Novels and Tory Political Sociology

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This essay examines Disraeli’s last two published novels, Lothair (1870) and Endymion (1880), as works of political sociology. The mature Disraeli was fascinated by generalisation and social analysis.
Jonathan Parry
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8

History, Volume 110, Issue 391, Page 326-345, June 2025.
Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
After serving as a brigadier within the British army in India for three years until 1946, Enoch Powell decided to start a political career and joined the Conservative Party.
Stéphane Porion
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A Métis Parliament: Louis Riel and Constitutional Debates in Red River*

Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 54-72, February 2025.
Abstract In the mid 19th century the Métis, an Indigenous People in the northwest of North America, contested their exclusion from Canada's parliament. Settler colonial states have a legacy of excluding Indigenous voices. However, considering the case of Louis Riel's expulsion from parliament and reading the constitutional debates held in the northwest
M. Max Hamon
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives

, 2023
“Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives” is the interdisciplinary subject chosen to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast.

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‘[A] Mere Mystery-Man’: Disraeli and the Church of England’s Episcopate

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
The truthfulness of Disraeli’s membership of the Church of England has drawn much attention, and his Anglicanism has often been denounced as a mere façade.
Jérôme Grosclaude
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Norman Gash: Political Historian

Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 338-358, October 2024.
Abstract This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lord Liverpool by Norman Gash (1912–2009). It considers Gash as a historian who both wrote about 19th‐century politics and expressed political views of his own. These views became increasingly prominent in the 1980s, during Margaret Thatcher's period of office.
Richard A. Gaunt
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