ANGUS HAWKINS is Director of International Programmes and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

• Introduction Parliamentary Government and mid-Victorian Parties: 1852 1859 Palmerston and Liberalism: 1859-1865 'A Leap in the Dark': 1865 1868 Gladstone and Liberalism: 1868-1874 Disraeli and Conservatism: 1874-1880 The Crisis of Liberalism: 1880-1886 The Demise of Parliamentary Government and the Two Party System.

ANGUS HAWKINS is Director of International Programmes and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

• Introduction Parliamentary Government and mid-Victorian Parties: 1852 1859 Palmerston and Liberalism: 1859-1865 'A Leap in the Dark': 1865 1868 Gladstone and Liberalism: 1868-1874 Disraeli and Conservatism: 1874-1880 The Crisis of Liberalism: 1880-1886 The Demise of Parliamentary Government and the Two Party System.

ANGUS HAWKINS is Director of International Programmes and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

• Introduction Parliamentary Government and mid-Victorian Parties: 1852 1859 Palmerston and Liberalism: 1859-1865 'A Leap in the Dark': 1865 1868 Gladstone and Liberalism: 1868-1874 Disraeli and Conservatism: 1874-1880 The Crisis of Liberalism: 1880-1886 The Demise of Parliamentary Government and the Two Party System.