Talk:Premierships of William Ewart Gladstone

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Requested move 29 August 2016[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Seems uncontroversial. — Amakuru (talk) 10:56, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Premiership of William Gladstone → Premiership of William Ewart Gladstone – Consistency, given that William Ewart Gladstone includes his middle name in the title. --Neve –selbert 17:27, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Quote from Ensor[edit]

"which palsied the government's consuls and zigzagged its policies" – this is vigorous writing, certainly, but what on earth does it mean? Should "consuls" be "counsels"? That would help. Deipnosophista (talk) 19:31, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ensor is saying the majority was bitterly divided and either unable to act ("palsied") or zig-zagged back and forth, so there were no major results. for more on Ensor's idea see Ian St John (2016). The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli. p. 212. Rjensen (talk) 20:40, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed new article on Gladstone's Foreign Policy[edit]

I propose to create a new article on Gladstone's Foreign Policy. The topic is mentioned briefly many times in articles on Gladstone and related topics, but is never brought together. The new article will have excepts from Wikipedia plus new material based on scholarly books and articles. For example besides the lengthy biographies we have such books as Paul Knaplund, Gladstone's foreign policy (1935); Paul Hayes, Modern British Foreign Policy: The Twentieth Century: 1880–1939 (1978); R.W. Seton-Watson, Disraeli, Gladstone and the eastern question (1935); and Marvin Swartz, The politics of British foreign policy in the era of Disraeli and Gladstone (1985) Rjensen (talk) 19:58, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]