The Gladstone diaries

Author(s)

• Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
• Foot, M. R. D. (Michael Richard Daniel)

Bibliographic Information

The Gladstone diaries

edited by M.R.D. Foot

Clarendon Press, 1968-1994

• v. 1, 1825-1832
• v. 2, 1833-1839
• v. 3, 1840-1847
• v. 4, 1848-1854
• v. 5, 1855-1860
• v. 6, 1861-1868
• v. 7, Jan. 1869-June 1871
• v. 8, July 1871-Dec. 1874
• v. 9, Jan. 1875-Dec. 1880
• v. 10, Jan. 1881-June 1883
• v. 11, July 1883-Dec. 1886
• v. 12, 1887-1891
• v. 13, 1892-1896
• v. 14

Note

Vols. 8-: The Gladstone diareis with caninet minutes and prime-ministerial correspondence

Vols. 3-4: edited by M.R.D. Foot and H.C.G. Matthew

Vols. 5-: edited by H.C.G. Matthew

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 12, 1887-1891 ISBN 9780198204633

Description

The last two volumes of Gladstone's diaries depict the extraordinary energy of a remarkable octogenarian: Gladstone was eighty-four when he resigned the Premiership in 1894 to close his fourth administration. His pursuit of `justice for Ireland' through the successful passage of a Home Rule Bill through the Commons in 1893 forms the political centrepiece of these volumes. But there is also a wealth of material on imperial, foreign, domestic, and religious politics contained in the daily diary enteries, the minutes of the Cabinets of the 1892-4 government, and the five hundred letters which accompany the enteries for the governmental period. Gladstone's life-style made few concessions to his age: his reading, writing, theatre-going, and trips abroad continue, as do his speech-writing and his church-going. His declining eyesight eventually curtailed his reading and led to the end of regular diary-writing in 1894. His vast diary, which he began in 1825, ends in 1896. Its final entries are a moving conclusion to one of the most remarkable and one the most curious documents of British history.

Volume

v. 13, 1892-1896 ISBN 9780198204640

Description

The last two volumes of Gladstone's diaries depict the extraordinary energy of a remarkable octogenarian: Gladstone was eighty-four when he resigned the Premiership in 1894 to close his fourth administration. His pursuit of 'justice for Ireland' through the successful passage of a Home Rule Bill through the Commons in 1893 forms the political centrepiece of these volumes. But there is also a wealth of material on imperial, foreign, domestic, and religious politics contained in the daily diary entries, the minutes of the Cabinets of the 1892-4 government, and the five hundred letters which accompany the entries for the governmental period. Gladstone's life-style made few concessions to his age: his reading, writing, theatre-going, and trips abroad continue, as do his speech-making and his church-going. His declining eyesight eventually curtailed his reading and led to the end of regular diary-writing in 1894. His vast diary, which he began in 1825, ends in 1896. Its final entries are a moving conclusion to one of the most remarkable and one of the most curious documents of British history.

Volume

v. 14 ISBN 9780198204657

Description

The index to the thirteen text volumes of The Gladstone Diaries 1825-1896 has three parts. First `Dramatis Personae', a list of the 20,500 people mentioned by Gladstone in his diaries. Secondly `Gladstone's Lifetime Reading', a bibliography of the 20,000 books, pamphlets, and articles, whose reading he records in his diaries, with the dates when he read them. This is a bibliography of remarkable cultural interest. It is probably the most ambitious attempt by a public figure to note his or her reading and it is certainly unique as a printed record of the lifetime's reading of am eminent Briton. Thirdly, a `Subject Index' which is the reader's most direct way into the extraordinary range of subjects covered in the thirteen text volumes. It is effectively an index to most of British public life from 1830 until 1896. About two hundred of the people who figure most prominently in the diaries are included in the Subject Index (in addition to the `Dramatis Personae') with detailed analytic entries. It also includes a bibliography of Gladstone's own writings as he recorded them in his diaries. This is a culmination of H. C. G. Matthew's acclaimed edition of Gladstone's diaries, correspondence, and other papers. It is an invaluable reference tool and an essential key to a magisterial work of scholarship.

Volume

v. 10, Jan. 1881-June 1883 ISBN 9780198211372

Description

The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's diaries (1881-1886) cover the years of his dramatic second and third administrations. The second administration confronted a series of crises: the Land League Campaign and the Phoenix Park murders, Majuba Hill and South Africa, Gordon and the Sudan, and the obstruction of franchise reform by the House of Lords. The administration met these with determined assertion of administrative and legislative reforms, more coherent in policy and more consistent in practice than is often realized. Gladstone's third administration in 1886 attempted to pacify Ireland by granting Home Rule and in doing so provided one of the most exciting and controversial twelve months in British politics since the Civil War. These volumes include not only the daily text of Gladstone's private diaries (maintained almost without a break) but also all of his Cabinet Minutes, hitherto unpublished and themselves a remarkable, and for the Victorian period, unique diary of decision-making. There are over 1400 of the letters (the vast majority hitherto unpublished) which he wrote in those years. These letters flesh out the daily diary and the Cabinet Minutes, and cover the Church, the Queen and the Court, literature, theatre, art, and domestic affairs. There is much material in these volumes on Gladstone's unsuccessful but repeated attempts to retire from political office. The volumes offer an extraordinary narrative of great force, a remarkable mixture of achievement and disappointment, of bold legislation and administrative and political disasters. They display some of the innermost thoughts of an astonishing political personality which mesmerized contemporaries and has continued to fascinate historians and general readers.

Volume

v. 11, July 1883-Dec. 1886 ISBN 9780198211389

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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.

Volume

v. 7, Jan. 1869-June 1871 ISBN 9780198226383

Description

The Gladstone Diaries Volume 7: January 1869-June 1871

Volume

v. 8, July 1871-Dec. 1874 ISBN 9780198226390

Description

Volume XIV contains comprehensive indexes to the entire thirteen volumes of W.E. Gladstone's diaries, comprising the Index of Persons, the Subject Index, and the Index of Gladstone's Reading. It is effectively an index to most of British public life from 1830 to 1896.

Volume

v. 9, Jan. 1875-Dec. 1880 ISBN 9780198227755

Description

This volume covers some of the most dramatic years of Gladstone's political life: his formal retirement from politics in 1875, his return to take the lead in the Bulgarian Atrocities campaign in 1876, the Midlothian Campaigns of 1879-80, and the opening months of his return to power in 1880.

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• NCID: BA07664487
• ISBN:
  • 0198224257
  • 0198224257
  • 0198224451
  • 0198224451
  • 0198226381
  • 019822639X
  • 0198227752
  • 0198211376
  • 0198211384
  • 0198204639
  • 0198204647
  • 0198204655
• LCCN: 68059613
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: 14 v.
• Size: 24 cm.
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA563
  • DC : 942.081/0924
  • DC : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 -- Diaries
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901
  • LCSH : Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Diaries