Eugenio Biagini
2017
Biagini, Eugenio
‘Patrick, the First Churchman’ in the Protestant Vision of Ernest Bateman of Booterstown Book Chapter
In: pp. 211-227, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-41530-7.
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This chapter considers the case of the Reverend Ernest Bateman (1886–1979), Church of Ireland rector of Booterstown, County Dublin. Drawing on his sermons and other sources, the author examines how Bateman perceived and represented Patrick and then explores the implications of his Patrician model for his Protestant sense of Irish identity. At the time the episcopalian minority was still trying to come to terms with demotion from their long-held elite status, to what they regarded as second-class citizenship, while the Catholic church was relentlessly aggressive and intolerant in its attitude to the minority. An Irish patriot who became friendly with de Valera, Bateman continued nevertheless to maintain the Church of Ireland position, first set out by Archbishop Ussher in the seventeenth century, that the church founded by St Patrick was in all key respects more akin to the Church of Ireland than to the Catholic church. In that sense, Patrick represented the ‘first churchman’.
2016
Biagini, Eugenio
In: Modern Italy, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 110-111, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-137-29771-6.
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Biagini, Eugenio
The Irish Revolution, 1916–23 Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. 131, no. 548, pp. 122-132, 2016.
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2015
Biagini, Eugenio
Beyond the Balkans: Towards an Inclusive History of Southeastern Europe, ed. Sabine Rutar Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review (): DOI:, vol. 130, no. 547, pp. 1582-1584, 2015.
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Biagini, Eugenio
The correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone Journal Article
In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 908-909, 2015.
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Biagini, Eugenio
The Irish Parliamentary Party and the Third Home Rule Crisis, by James McConnel Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. 130, no. 543, pp. 487-488, 2015.
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2014
Biagini, Eugenio
The Risorgimento Revisited: Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-century Italy Journal Article
In: Modern Italy, vol. 19, no. 3, 2014.
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Recent works on the Risorgimento Edited by Andrea del Cornò and Nick Carter - The Risorgimento Revisited: Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-century Italy, edited by Silvana Patriarca and Lucy Riall, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012, xii +303 pp., £67.00 (hardback), ISBN 9-780230-248007 - Volume 19 Issue 3 - Eugenio F. Biagini
Biagini, Eugenio
John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator, by Bill Cash Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. 129, no. 538, 2014.
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2013
Biagini, Eugenio
Dilemmas of decline: British intellectuals and world politics Journal Article
In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 26, no. 3, 2013.
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Biagini, Eugenio
The Minority Voice: Hubert Butler and Southern Irish Protestantism Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. 128, no. 533, pp. 1000-1002, 2013.
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In recent years in Ireland there has been a considerable increase of scholarly interest in the history both of religious minorities and of social attitudes to ethnic and cultural diversity. The sources available are rich and diverse, ranging from church and business records to the writings and private correspondence of community leaders such as the man-of-letters, public moralist and human rights campaigner Hubert Butler. The latter left copious records covering a substantial part of the twentieth century, a collection that offers the opportunity to reconstruct a multi-faceted and intimate picture of the experience, world-view and social networks of a certain social group within the Southern minority. Hailing from a distinguished Kilkenny family, Butler belonged to the generation shaped by the 1916–23 wars. These conflicts ended the Union, destroyed whatever remained of the Ascendancy and caused a mass exodus of Southern Protestants.
Biagini, Eugenio
In: The English Historical Review, vol. 128, no. 533, pp. 1002-1004, 2013.
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The centenary commemorations of the signing of the 1912 Ulster Solemn League and Covenant have provided opportunities to revisit and reassess the wider context and some of the protagonists of this event, which set the stage for the Irish Revolution. Among the characters who have been rediscovered, one of the most interesting is Frederick MacNeice, a controversial Protestant church leader who opposed Edward Carson’s policy. In 1912 Frederick MacNeice was rector of Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, and was to spend the rest of his career in the North. However, in terms of background and formative experiences, he was a Southerner. He had been brought up in Connemara, where his parents worked with the Irish Church Missions to Roman Catholics.
2012
Biagini, Eugenio
The protestant minority in southern ireland Journal Article
In: The Historical Journal, vol. 55, no. 4, 2012.
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Biagini, Eugenio
The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920, by Annie Tindley Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. CXXVII, no. 524, pp. 205-207, 2012.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Dukes of Sutherland, with an estate comprising over one million acres, formed the largest and perhaps richest estate family in Western Europe. For this reason alone Annie Tindley’s book examines not merely a well-selected case-study: it is more about the history of a principality, a window on the world of the Scottish nobility at the apex of their power. From the beginning of the century the family had consolidated their fortunes by turning to ‘high farming’ and the conversion of much of their estate from tillage to pasture—in the process evicting many of their small tenants.
2011
Biagini, Eugenio
Citizenship and religion in the Italian constitutions, 1796–1849 Journal Article
In: History of European Ideas, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 211-217, 2011.
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Biagini, Eugenio
Le costituzioni di democrazia: Testi 1689-1850, by Ettore Rotelli Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. CXXVI, no. 519, pp. 458-458, 2011.
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The study of constitutional history is nowadays much less popular than it used to be, and the analysis of constitutional texts is not doing much better. Although this is part of a reaction against what used to be an excessive interest in this branch of the discipline, it has come with unfortunate consequences, such as the neglect of sources which by their very nature encapsulate the spirit of an age and the political aspirations of a people—or at least of their ruling élite. For these reasons scholars should welcome Ettore Rotelli's new book. It includes a substantial and erudite introductory essay (130 pp.) and a collection of texts which had at least some ‘constitutional’ significance in the European debate on political legitimacy and national sovereignty.
2010
Biagini, Eugenio
Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire: Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. CXXV, no. 517, pp. 1559-1661, 2010.
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‘[B]orn in Ireland as a citizen of the world’ (p. 1): these opening words encapsulate two central dimensions of the rich life and career of the businessman, Nationalist MP, anti-imperialist and humanitarian campaigner Alfred John Webb (1834–1908). While the academic community is deeply in debt to Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre for this well-researched and nuanced study, it is worth asking why her work is the first full biography of the Victorian reformer—although we should not forget Marie-Louise Legg's edition of Webb's autobiography (1999). In this case, historical neglect is certainly not due to lack of available archival sources, as the impressive bibliography at the end of this book shows. Rather, it reflects the extent to which past generations of historians found his cosmopolitanism difficult to reconcile with the anglophobic assumptions of a certain Irish nationalist discourse which was then hegemonic.
Biagini, Eugenio
Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire: Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. 125, no. 517, pp. 1559-1561, 2010.
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Biagini, Eugenio
In: Irish historical studies: joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, vol. 37, no. 146, pp. 337-338, 2010.
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Biagini, Eugenio
Ireland, radicalism and the Scottish Highlands Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. CXXV, no. 512, pp. 221-223, 2010.
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It is ironic that the most revolutionary socio-economic question in Victorian Britain and Ireland was not connected to the plight of factory workers in the new industrial towns—as Marx and Engels had prophesied—but to the problems of agricultural labour in the ‘peripheral’ areas of the country. If the ‘land wars’ in the United Kingdom were not straightforward examples of ‘class’ struggle, they were as close to it as any social conflict could possibly be. Furthermore, they were characterised to a considerable extent by what the Marxists always hoped to see happening in industrial relations (but never really did), namely, an international solidarity overcoming religious and political divides, and bringing about cross-fertilisation of ideas and tactics. Newby's book is certainly not inspired by Marxism, but constitutes a scholarly, systematic analysis of one outstanding example of such a process.
Biagini, Eugenio
Ireland, Radicalism and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870–1912 by Andrew G. Newby Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. 125, no. 512, pp. 221-223, 2010.
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2009
Biagini, Eugenio
Mazzini e Linton: Una democrazia europea (1845-1855) Journal Article
In: The English Historical Review, vol. CXXIV, no. 510, pp. 1187-1188, 2009.
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Biagini, Eugenio
The Catholic Church and the Protestant State. Nineteenth-century Irish realities Journal Article
In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2009.
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2008
Biagini, Eugenio
Religious thought in the Victorian age. Challenges and reconceptions Journal Article
In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 59, no. 4, 2008.
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Biagini, Eugenio
Liberty and nationalism in Ireland Journal Article
In: The Historical Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 793 - 809, 2008.
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2007
Biagini, Eugenio
Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy Journal Article
In: pp. 212 - 244, 2007.
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abstract = {In 1945 the Resistance in Italy was a mass movement which, as Ellwood has written, was ‘explicitly demanding a break with the past and a radical reform of the State and of Italian political development’. The end of the war and the return to democracy was a time of great intellectual and political excitement - ‘never, as much as in this period, were ideas made to prevail upon hard facts’. Notions of social welfare and the planned economy were widely discussed and, to some extent, implemented: in 1945-7 the CIAI (Consiglio Industriale Alta Italia, Industrial Council of Northern Italy) empowered a group of ‘experts’ to manage industrial reconstruction directly, without the help of the Confederation of Italian Industry. In September 1946 a conference on the problem of poverty was held at Tremezzo (Lake Como), with the participation of both economists and politicians. Amongst the latter were Italian officials attached to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Many delegates expressed impatience with the old doctrine of charity and social paternalism and notions of civic entitlement and a Beveridgean safety net ‘from the cradle to the grave’ were debated. In the same year, Ernesto Rossi, a radical economist, published a book on ‘abolishing poverty’ which voiced Fabian ideas about social redistribution. The Republican Constitution of 1947 reflected this new mindset: one of its drafters, Piero Calamandrei, famously described it as the spirit of the Resistance translated into juridical formulae. © Cambridge University Press 2007 and Cambridge University Press, 2009.},
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In 1945 the Resistance in Italy was a mass movement which, as Ellwood has written, was ‘explicitly demanding a break with the past and a radical reform of the State and of Italian political development’. The end of the war and the return to democracy was a time of great intellectual and political excitement - ‘never, as much as in this period, were ideas made to prevail upon hard facts’. Notions of social welfare and the planned economy were widely discussed and, to some extent, implemented: in 1945-7 the CIAI (Consiglio Industriale Alta Italia, Industrial Council of Northern Italy) empowered a group of ‘experts’ to manage industrial reconstruction directly, without the help of the Confederation of Italian Industry. In September 1946 a conference on the problem of poverty was held at Tremezzo (Lake Como), with the participation of both economists and politicians. Amongst the latter were Italian officials attached to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Many delegates expressed impatience with the old doctrine of charity and social paternalism and notions of civic entitlement and a Beveridgean safety net ‘from the cradle to the grave’ were debated. In the same year, Ernesto Rossi, a radical economist, published a book on ‘abolishing poverty’ which voiced Fabian ideas about social redistribution. The Republican Constitution of 1947 reflected this new mindset: one of its drafters, Piero Calamandrei, famously described it as the spirit of the Resistance translated into juridical formulae. © Cambridge University Press 2007 and Cambridge University Press, 2009.
2006
Biagini, Eugenio
Liberty, Class and Nation-BuildingUgo Foscolo’s ‘English’ Constitutional Thought Journal Article
In: European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 34-49, 2006.
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This article explores the political thought of a leading Italian intellectual after his conversion from Jacobinism to liberalism. It shows the extent to which Foscolo was abreast of the then contemporary debate on constitutional government and nation-building. Moreover, it illustrates how he combined liberal with civic humanist and republican ideas, as well as idealism and Realpolitik in his perception of the problems faced by small nations struggling to be free in an era of international ideological conflict.
2004
Biagini, Eugenio
Italia liberale e protestanti Journal Article
In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 428 - 429, 2004.
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2002
Biagini, Eugenio; Ziegler, Paul R.
Gladstone Journal Article
In: Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 334 , 2002.
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2000
Biagini, Eugenio
Gladstone Book
2000, ISBN: 978-0-333-61353-5.
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Gladstone focuses on the public side of the statesman's life and on those aspects of his private life - such as his religious beliefs and family life - which most affected his career. Besides reflecting the current state of the debate, this study draws on the author's own work in progress on various aspects of Victorian liberalism, including political charisma and nationalism. With its thematic approach, Dr Biagini's short, clear analysis offers an exciting introduction and a flexible teaching aid, with a guide to further reading.
1999
Biagini, Eugenio
Ideology and the Making of New Labours Journal Article
In: International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 56, pp. 93 - 105, 1999.
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abstract = {In 1935 George Dangerfield published The Strange Death of Liberal England. This book, which soon became a classic of sorts, claimed to explain the passing away of a political tradition allegedly unable to thrive in the postwar climate. Nationalism, class politics, and militant trade unionism were the characteristics of the mature twentieth century. However, Dangerfield's condolences were premature. In April 1992, almost sixty years after the publication of this famous obituary, issue No. 7755 of The Economist appeared with a surprising cover illustration: It represented William Ewart Gladstone, the Victorian statesman, wearing a flowery (postmodern?) waistcoat and surrounded by the microphones of journalists obviously eager to pick his brain on the current political situation. The caption was: “A prophet for the left.” The leading article presented Gladstone not as a historical figure but as a model for the Labour party. This was certainly remarkable, especially after twelve years of Conservative governments which claimed to be intent on restoring some of the traditional values and policies associated with Gladstonian liberalism. 1 After a century of political oblivion, old Gladstone had suddenly become fashionable again, and his mantle was apparently being fought over by the three main parties.},
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In 1935 George Dangerfield published The Strange Death of Liberal England. This book, which soon became a classic of sorts, claimed to explain the passing away of a political tradition allegedly unable to thrive in the postwar climate. Nationalism, class politics, and militant trade unionism were the characteristics of the mature twentieth century. However, Dangerfield's condolences were premature. In April 1992, almost sixty years after the publication of this famous obituary, issue No. 7755 of The Economist appeared with a surprising cover illustration: It represented William Ewart Gladstone, the Victorian statesman, wearing a flowery (postmodern?) waistcoat and surrounded by the microphones of journalists obviously eager to pick his brain on the current political situation. The caption was: “A prophet for the left.” The leading article presented Gladstone not as a historical figure but as a model for the Labour party. This was certainly remarkable, especially after twelve years of Conservative governments which claimed to be intent on restoring some of the traditional values and policies associated with Gladstonian liberalism. 1 After a century of political oblivion, old Gladstone had suddenly become fashionable again, and his mantle was apparently being fought over by the three main parties.
1998
Biagini, Eugenio
Book Reviews The Transformation of British Politics Journal Article
In: The Journal of Modern History, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 685-688, 1998.
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1997
Biagini, Eugenio
Religion and political culture in Britain and Ireland. From the Glorious Revolution to the decline of empire Journal Article
In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 48, no. 3, 1997.
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1996
Biagini, Eugenio; Matthew, H. C. G.
Gladstone, 1875-1898 Journal Article
In: Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 101, no. 5, 1996.
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Gladstone 1875-1898 is the culmination of Colin Matthew's acclaimed study of one of Britain's greatest statesmen. William Ewart Gladstone retired from politics in 1875, but returned for a further twenty years at the forefront of British politics. Gladstone 1809-1874 told the story of Gladstone's first political career; his second is examined in this volume. The book tells the story of Gladstone's last three premierships and his dramatic political campaigns as he pursued his often controversial aims, particularly his mission to bring Irish Home Rule to Ireland. Political reform, Egypt, Gordon in the Sudan, and the 'Scramble for Africa' are other major themes. The treatment of Gladstone's political career is balanced by Colin Matthew's acute discussion of his full and active private life, including his enormous correspondence and prodigiously wide reading. The book ends with a moving account of Gladstone's death and state funeral, the last great set-piece of Victorian Liberalism.
Biagini, Eugenio
In: International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 49, pp. 198 - 201, 1996.
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1995
Biagini, Eugenio
Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and suffrage in Britain Journal Article
In: Continuity and Change, vol. 10, no. 3, 1995.
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Biagini, Eugenio
Louis Henkin, Constitutionalism, democracy and foreign affairs. (New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press, 1990.) Pages viii + 125. $15.00 Journal Article
In: Continuity and Change, vol. 10, no. 3, 1995.
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1994
Biagini, Eugenio
1848: the revolution of the intellectuals Journal Article
In: History of European Ideas, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 438-439, 1994.
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1993
Biagini, Eugenio; Saab, Ann Pottinger
Biagini Eugenio F.. Liberty, Retrenchment, and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone Journal Article
In: Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 98, no. 4, 1993.
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Biagini, Eugenio; Orth, John V.; Reid, Alastair J
Currents of Radicalism: Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain Journal Article
In: The American Journal of Legal History, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 228 , 1993.
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abstract = {Preface 1. Currents of radicalism, 1850-1914 Eugenio F. Biagini and Alastair J. Reid Part I. Continuities in Popular Radicalism: 2. The old radicalism and the new: David Urquhart and the politics of opposition, 1832-1867 Miles Taylor 3. Radicalism and popular culture: the Tichborne case and the politics of 'fair play', 1867-1886 Rohan McWilliam 4. Popular politics and the limitations of party: Wolverhampton, 1867-1900 Jon Lawrence 5. Nonconformity and trade unionism: the Sheffield outrages of 1866 Kenneth D. Brown Part II. The Liberal Party and the People: 6. Trade unionists, Gladstonian Liberals, and the labour law reforms of 1875 Jonathan Spain 7. Popular Liberals, Gladstonian finance, and the debate on taxation, 1860-1874 Eugenio F. Biagini 8. Gladstone and his rivals: popular Liberal perceptions of the party leadership in the political crisis of 1885-1886 Graham D. Goodlad Part III. Radicals, Liberals, and the Labour Party: 9. Labour and parliament: the Lib.-Labs. as the first working-class MPs, 1885-1906 John Shepherd 10. Old Unionism reconsidered: the radicalism of Robert Knight, 1870-1900 Alastair J. Reid 11. Labour and local politics: radicalism, democracy and the social reform, 1880-1914 Pat Thane 12. Ideological debate in Edwardian Labour politics: radicalism, Revisionism and socialism Duncan Tanner Index.},
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Preface 1. Currents of radicalism, 1850-1914 Eugenio F. Biagini and Alastair J. Reid Part I. Continuities in Popular Radicalism: 2. The old radicalism and the new: David Urquhart and the politics of opposition, 1832-1867 Miles Taylor 3. Radicalism and popular culture: the Tichborne case and the politics of 'fair play', 1867-1886 Rohan McWilliam 4. Popular politics and the limitations of party: Wolverhampton, 1867-1900 Jon Lawrence 5. Nonconformity and trade unionism: the Sheffield outrages of 1866 Kenneth D. Brown Part II. The Liberal Party and the People: 6. Trade unionists, Gladstonian Liberals, and the labour law reforms of 1875 Jonathan Spain 7. Popular Liberals, Gladstonian finance, and the debate on taxation, 1860-1874 Eugenio F. Biagini 8. Gladstone and his rivals: popular Liberal perceptions of the party leadership in the political crisis of 1885-1886 Graham D. Goodlad Part III. Radicals, Liberals, and the Labour Party: 9. Labour and parliament: the Lib.-Labs. as the first working-class MPs, 1885-1906 John Shepherd 10. Old Unionism reconsidered: the radicalism of Robert Knight, 1870-1900 Alastair J. Reid 11. Labour and local politics: radicalism, democracy and the social reform, 1880-1914 Pat Thane 12. Ideological debate in Edwardian Labour politics: radicalism, Revisionism and socialism Duncan Tanner Index.
1991
Biagini, Eugenio; Reid, Alastair J
Currents of radicalism Book Chapter
In: pp. 1-20, Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN: 9780521394550.
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‘Those who were originally called radicals and afterwards reformers, are called Chartists’ declared Thomas Duncombe before parliament in 1842, a description which if adapted for a later period would provide an apt quotation to set the theme for this collection of essays: ‘those who were originally called Chartists, were afterwards called Liberal and Labour activists’. For our central thesis is that there was a substantial continuity in popular radicalism throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, and as a result the essays stress both the popular elements in Gladstonian Liberalism and the radical liberal elements in the early Labour party. The continuity between Chartism and Liberalism has not gone unrecognised in the previous literature on the subject of radicalism itself, but the insight has had only a limited impact on more general approaches to the study of the popular politics of the period. Perhaps this can be explained, at least in part, by the fact that many of the major contributions to the history of mid-nineteenth-century British radicalism have come from American scholars. For while their own national background has made them more appreciative of the intellectual content of liberalism and of the importance of democratic traditions, it has also tended to exclude them from full participation in the debates taking place between British historians.
1987
Biagini, Eugenio
British Trade Unions and Popular Political Economy Journal Article
In: The Historical Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 811 - 840, 1987.
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This paper is a study of the relationship between economic culture and trade union economic subculture during the years in which both the Victorian trade union movement and the classical economists' view of it reached their maturity. This period represented a turning point in the history of the movement, which achieved a full institutionalization and legitimation. The Webbs, and a historiographic tradition since them, maintained that these results were obtained at the price of a complete submission to the ideological hegemony of the bourgeoisie. In the 1960s R. V. Clements challenged this view and argued that such a subordination had never taken place, and that trade unionists had managed to keep their independent views – especially at the level of economic thought. Recent discussions have been content to stress the sound and ‘aseptic’ pragmatism of the working men, and the abstruse dogmatism of the economists. A footnote quoting Clements' article seems to be all that readers can reasonably ask for. The possibility of an alternative interpretation – namely, that classical economics could actually be useful to trade union strategies and interests – has not yet been sufficiently considered. The aim of this paper is to argue that there is much evidence in support of such an interpretation.