The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's diaries (1881-1886) cover the years of his dramatic second and third administrations. The second administration co

Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both d

A history of an important newspaper and of Jewish communal life, interpreted through its most vibrant public voice.

In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introd

The years of Ireland’s union with Great Britain are most often regarded as a period of great turbulence and conflict. And so they were. But there are other st