The Gladstone Diaries Volume 7: January 1869-June 1871

This Reprint contains private correspondence between Gladstone and his Foreign Secretary, Lord Granville, conducted during the years 1868-1876. The correspondence is between two men who wrote to each other privately, but about matters which were, as Professor Matthew states in his supplementary introduction, -the very stuff of official diplomatic exchange.- Edited with full scholarly rigor the correspondence sheds light on the details of foreign policy at a time when Britain was at the height of her power, as well as on a wide range of nonpolitical matters.

This Reprint contains private correspondence between Gladstone and his Foreign Secretary, Lord Granville, conducted during the years 1868-1876. The correspondence is between two men who wrote to each other privately, but about matters which were, as Professor Matthew states in his supplementary introduction, -the very stuff of official diplomatic exchange.- Edited with full scholarly rigor the correspondence sheds light on the details of foreign policy at a time when Britain was at the height of her power, as well as on a wide range of nonpolitical matters.

The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's diaries cover 1881 to 1886, the years of Gladstone's highly dramatic second and third administrations. In addition to the daily text of Gladstone's private diaries (maintained almost without a break), the volumes also feature all of his never before published Cabinet Minutes and 1400 of his letters. Altogether, the material provides an invaluable inside look at some of the best known and most controversial events in Gladstone's political career: the Irish Land League, the Phoenix Park murders, Majuba and the "scramble for Africa," and the Home...

Heinrich Schliemann (1822 1890) published Mycenae, an account of his archaeological excavations of the ancient Greek cities of Mycenae and Tiryns, in 1878. Schliemann's astonishing finds revealed that the cities had a historical reality outside Homeric epic. His excavations uncovered many priceless treasures, most famously the 'death mask of Agamemnon' and the shaft graves, filled with pottery, carved stones, skeletons, gold, jewellery and weaponry. He also uncovered much about the layout and architecture of the two lost cities. The volume is generously illustrated with images of artefacts,...