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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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‘[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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“Churchill's Party”: A necessary experiment in personalization

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 3, Page 474-485, May 2024.
Abstract Aim This article aims to determine the extent of “personalization” and “de‐institutionalization” within the Conservative Party in Britain during the period 1940–1945 when the Party was under the leadership of Winston Churchill. Materials and methods The article examines the different dimensions of “personalization” and “de‐institutionalization”
Kit Kowol
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Disraeli and South America

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This article asks how Disraeli thought about South America. It argues that his constitutional theories, and his schemes of global politics, both dealt seriously with issues raised by the region, and especially by Spanish America.
Alex Middleton
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Disraeli and the Eastern Question 1875‒78: Finance, Defence and Politics

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This essay considers an aspect of the great ‘Eastern’ (Ottoman and Balkan) crisis of 1875‒78, which has never been properly treated before: the policies of Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), that secured a great British triumph, at once peaceful and ...
Peter Ghosh
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Alfabetizare politică prin lexic, instituții și modele teoretice englezești: România în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea (Political Literacy through English Lexic, Institutions and Models. Romania in the Second Hald of the 19th Century) [PDF]

Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2015
The present article endeavours to explore the political terminology of Anglo-Saxon origin, as well as to emphasize the influence of the Anglo-American political model through the analysis of some speeches delivered in various political contexts by the ...
Roxana PATRAȘ
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Disraeli and Cobden: ‘The Manchester School’ in Fact and Fiction

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
The mid-nineteenth century’s leading Conservative and pre-eminent Radical politicians (Disraeli and Cobden) at first glance have little in common save for the year of their birth in 1804, the legacy of major scholarly editions of their letters and both ...
Anthony Howe
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Creating the Royal Society's Sylvester Medal [PDF]

, 2004
Following the death of James Joseph Sylvester in 1897, contributions were collected in order to mark his life and work by a suitable memorial. This initiative resulted in the Sylvester Medal, which is awarded triennially by the Royal Society for the ...
Cantor, G.
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Authorship and auteurism in Another Country

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
In 1873 Benjamin Disraeli could bemoan, "[a]n author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children." Today, however, authorship is a consumable that demands endless promoting in order to be profitable.
Stella Viljoen
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Beaconsfieldism and Elysian Fields

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This essay explores the extraordinary come-back that Disraeli and the Conservative party achieved in the election of 1874. Following Gladstone’s decisive victory in 1868 and the death of Derby the following year, Disraeli had largely withdrawn from ...
Thomas Pritchard
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