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British Liberalism: The Grand Tour

Anne McElvoy tours 300 years of British liberalism.

Radio 4,12 episodes

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Omnibus
From John Locke to New Liberalism
Anne McElvoy tours British liberalism from the 'Glorious' Revolution to the Edwardian era.
11 Dec 2015,58 mins
Omnibus
From Millicent Fawcett to Multiculturalism
Anne McElvoy traces liberalism's development since the Suffragists.
18 Dec 2015,58 mins
The Limits of Liberalism
Anne McElvoy explores how, since its 1960s highpoint, liberalism has come under pressure.
18 Dec 2015,15 mins
Roy Jenkins and Margaret Thatcher
Anne McElvoy explores the rise and fall of the 1960s liberals, like Roy Jenkins.
17 Dec 2015,15 mins
The Cold War
Anne McElvoy explores the distinctively embattled liberalism that emerged in the Cold War.
16 Dec 2015,15 mins
Keynes v Hayek - Liberals in the Slump
Anne McElvoy explores rival liberal solutions to the 1930s Depression.
15 Dec 2015,15 mins
Millicent Fawcett and Votes for Women
Anne McElvoy retraces a votes for women march, led by the non-violent Suffragist movement.
14 Dec 2015,15 mins
William Gladstone
Anne McElvoy explores how 'Gladstonian' liberalism came to dominate Victorian Britain.
11 Dec 2015,15 mins
John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre
A Jamaican rebellion rouses Victorian liberals against state violence. With Anne McElvoy.
10 Dec 2015,15 mins
Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Clarkson - Expanding the Charmed Circle
Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Clarkson on liberalism
09 Dec 2015,15 mins
Adam Smith and the Whigs
Anne McElvoy revisits the innovative ideas of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.
08 Dec 2015,15 mins
John Locke v Arbitrary Power
Anne McElvoy tours 300 years of British liberalism, starting with rebel thinker John Locke
07 Dec 2015,15 mins