The Gladstone Diaries: Volume 11: July 1883-December 1886

ISBN-13: 9780198211389

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Opis

The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's Diaries cover the years of his extraordinary second and third administrations. There is much new material on the occupation of Egypt, the scramble for Africa', the third Reform Bill, and the crisis in Ireland leading eventually to the proposed Home Rule settlement in 1886 and the split of the Liberal Party.
The volumes include not only the daily text of Gladstone's personal diary for these years, but also the minutes that he kept of his Cabinets - over 250 in these volumes - and over 1400 of the letters on politics, religion, literature, and personal affairs which he wrote in these years.
The editors long introduction offers an interpretation of this remarkable material and in itself constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of Victorian Britain. The governments of the 1880s are the most controversial of Gladstone's career. These two volumes - both in the quality and the quantity of the material they contain - vastly increase our knowledge of late-Victorian government and politics and will be an essential source for many generations of historians.

Recenzje

'though the diary served a variety of private functions, its public and scholarly value has been teased out through the meticulous editorial work of Colin Matthew' Alvin Jackson, Queen's University of Belfast, Irish Historical Studies

Spis treści

Volume X: List of illustrations; Abbreviated names in text of Volumes X and XI; Abbreviated book titles and MSS collections in Volumes X and XI; Other abbreviations; Signs used by the diarist, and editorially; Introduction to Volumes X and XI; Diary Text, Cabinet Minutes, and Correspondence: 1881; 1882; January-June 1883; Where was he? January 1881-June 1883; List of letters by correspondent, published in Volume X. Volume XI: List of illustrations and note on abbreviations; Diary Text, Cabinet Minutes, and Correspondence: July-December 1883; 1884; 1885; 1886; Appendix I: Glimpses of Gladstone: by Roseberry, Acland, Derby, H. J. Gladstone; II: Gladstone's papers for the Cabinet on the Irish Settlement, 1886; III: Gladstone's publications written in 1881-1886; IV: Map of the Sudan; Where was he? July 1883-December 1886; List of letters by correspondent, published in Volume XI; Dramatis Personae, 1881-1886.