Prime Ministers’ Pets
Robert Blake, 10 January 1983
Benjamin Disraeli Letters: Vol. I 1815-1834, Vol. II 1835-1837
edited by J.A.W. Gunn, John Matthews, Donald Schurman and M.G. Wiebe.
Toronto, 482 pp., £37.50, June 1982,0 8020 5523 0 Show More
edited by J.A.W. Gunn, John Matthews, Donald Schurman and M.G. Wiebe.
Toronto, 482 pp., £37.50, June 1982,
The Gladstone Diaries: with Cabinet Minutes and Prime Ministerial Correspondence, Vol. VII, January 1869-June 1871, Vol. VIII, July 1871-December 1874
edited by H.C.G. Matthew.
Oxford, 641 pp., £35, September 1982,0 19 822638 1 Show More
edited by H.C.G. Matthew.
Oxford, 641 pp., £35, September 1982,
Gladstone: Vol. I 1809-1865
by Richard Shannon.
Hamish Hamilton, 580 pp., £18, November 1982,0 241 10780 6 Show More
by Richard Shannon.
Hamish Hamilton, 580 pp., £18, November 1982,
H.H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley
edited by Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock.
Oxford, 676 pp., £19.50, November 1982,0 19 212200 2 Show More
edited by Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock.
Oxford, 676 pp., £19.50, November 1982,
“... another Liberal prime minister, though Gladstone never quite lost his head to the same degree as Asquith. Gladstone was a major statesman. So was Disraeli, and so was Palmerston, whose sex life was one of total libertinism. What makes them count in history is what they said and did in Whitehall and Westminster – not in bed. It is of course another matter ... ”
