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British Liberalism: The Grand TourEpisodes

  1. The Limits of Liberalism

    Anne McElvoy explores how, since its 1960s highpoint, liberalism has come under pressure.

  2. Roy Jenkins and Margaret Thatcher

    Anne McElvoy explores the rise and fall of the 1960s liberals, like Roy Jenkins.

  3. The Cold War

    Anne McElvoy explores the distinctively embattled liberalism that emerged in the Cold War.

  4. Keynes v Hayek - Liberals in the Slump

    Anne McElvoy explores rival liberal solutions to the 1930s Depression.

  5. Millicent Fawcett and Votes for Women

    Anne McElvoy retraces a votes for women march, led by the non-violent Suffragist movement.

  7. William Gladstone

    Anne McElvoy explores how 'Gladstonian' liberalism came to dominate Victorian Britain.

  8. John Stuart Mill, John Bright and the Morant Bay Massacre

    A Jamaican rebellion rouses Victorian liberals against state violence. With Anne McElvoy.

  9. Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Clarkson - Expanding the Charmed Circle

    Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Clarkson on liberalism

  10. Adam Smith and the Whigs

    Anne McElvoy revisits the innovative ideas of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.

  11. John Locke v Arbitrary Power

    Anne McElvoy tours 300 years of British liberalism, starting with rebel thinker John Locke