Author: Simon Morgan

Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce opponent of the Corn Laws and promoter of internationa …

Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce opponent of the Corn Laws and promoter of internationa …

While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as ‘angels in the house’ isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised …