The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume XI: July 1883-December 1886

by William Ewart Gladstone

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198211384
• ISBN13: 9780198211389
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 714 Pages
• Weight: 249.00 lbs.