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3 days ago · Joseph Chamberlain was a British businessman, social reformer, radical politician, and ardent imperialist. At the local, national, or imperial level, he was a constructive radical, caring more for practical success than party loyalty or ideological commitment.
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Apart from his departmental activities, Dilke was eager,...
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Joseph Chamberlain was born in London on July 8, 1836. His...
- Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
1 day ago · It was as a result of Joseph Chamberlain’s mayoralty that Birmingham reached the pinnacle of its prestige. Being a trailblazer in sanitation, low-cost housing, and infrastructure, many in the late 19th century from all across the world remarked on how it was one of the best governed and most liveable cities in the world.
2 days ago · Winston Churchill was a stubborn alcoholic, Joseph Chamberlain was arrogant and cut-throat, and the Marquess of Salisbury was a pessimistic misanthrope. We admire these figures not for their fundamental decency, but for their ability to achieve great things on behalf of our country – we will not achieve great things again if we continue to deride their modern equivalents for being insufficiently mild-mannered.
Jun 28, 2024 · A second criticism concerns chronology: the nineteenth century is more important in the evolution of political promises than its comparatively sparse coverage in the book suggests, and more might have been said about both the Newcastle Programme of 1891 and particularly Joseph Chamberlain’s Unauthorized Programme of 1885, which, while ...
1 day ago · Headstone memorial of former Mayor of Birmingham Joseph Chamberlain at Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley. His family refused an offer of an official burial at Westminster Abbey and a Unitarian ceremony ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Go further back into history, and you’ll find the incisive foreign policy insights of Palmerston, the laissez-faire evangelism of Gladstone, and the tariff reform of Joseph Chamberlain. In the 20th century, the British Liberal lineage boasts Bertrand Russell, Roy Jenkins, and John Maynard Keynes.
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Jun 23, 2024 · In 1904 the Conservative government found itself impaled on a dilemma by Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain’s open advocacy of a tariff. Churchill, a convinced free trader, helped to found the Free Food League. He was disavowed by his constituents and became increasingly alienated from his party.
