Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

In the latest in his series on eminent Victorians, Neil Titley turns his attention to the country’s only four-time prime ...

Not long after I learned I was going to spend a night at Hawarden Castle in Wales, I ordered a biography of William Ewart Gladstone. You may recognise that name, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you don ...

In 1903 an over-life size marble statue to William Gladstone was unveiled in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. The inscription reads: Erected by Parliament to the Right Honourable William Ewart ...

This was the moment when a bungling trucker crashed into a Grade II-listed memorial of William Gladstone, and then drove off. Despite causing £40,000, he has been fined less than £250.

Yet the man who spent the most time as prime minister was none other than William Gladstone. Gladstone was Great Britain’s prime minister for twelve years across four separate premierships ...

Watson's family, though, were wealthy and among his ancestors was John Gladstone, one of the largest slave owners in the West Indies and the father of British Prime Minister William Gladstone. Mr ...

The great pioneer of government efficiency in modern times was William Gladstone. For the 19th century British statesman, government efficiency was not just a political objective but a moral ...

This is the modern incarnation of the Wales plantation which was the property of John Gladstone. Now he was the father of William Ewart Gladstone, who went on to become prime minister. This place ...

The Gladstone Cross in Lea Marston has its origins in the 19th century after it was erected to mark a visit from then Prime Minister William Gladstone. But the crosshead disappeared last August ...

Relaxing in the bath that night, I admit I did think about what I would do if I met the ghost of William Gladstone. Probably ask what he was thinking with all the slavery stuff, or why he didn’t ...