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British Elections Series Ep3: '1880: The Masses and the Machine'
A series of after-dinner chats between Oxbridge academics about British General Elections through time, from 1868 to present day.
Episode 3: '1880: the Masses and the Machine' Dr. Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) and Mr. Taym Saleh (Queen's College, Cambridge) discus the 1880 General Election, which was the final head-to-head between Gladstone and Disraeli. This election saw two key political modernisations.
The first was Gladstone touring the country and addressing huge public meetings through his famous Midlothian Campaign- the first ever 'prime ministerial' campaign. The second was the evolution of a party machine through the National Liberal Federation or caucus, which saw new men - first amongst them Joseph Chamberlain - who understood the new arts of organising politics in a mass democracy, but whose approach elicited enormous controversy amongst traditionalists as saw them as 'entryists' pushing new radical agendas.
Dr. Blaxill and Mr. Saleh are amongst the most eminent historians of British Electoral Politics in the world, having authored more than twenty books and articles on the subject, and having been featured on TV and Radio. Follow Dr. Blaxill on Twitter @BlaxillLuke Visit Dr. Blaxill's Website: www.lukeblaxill.com/ Follow Mr. Saleh on Twitter: @TaymSaleh
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By Luke Blaxill and Taym SalehA series of after-dinner chats between Oxbridge academics about British General Elections through time, from 1868 to present day.
Episode 3: '1880: the Masses and the Machine' Dr. Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) and Mr. Taym Saleh (Queen's College, Cambridge) discus the 1880 General Election, which was the final head-to-head between Gladstone and Disraeli. This election saw two key political modernisations.
The first was Gladstone touring the country and addressing huge public meetings through his famous Midlothian Campaign- the first ever 'prime ministerial' campaign. The second was the evolution of a party machine through the National Liberal Federation or caucus, which saw new men - first amongst them Joseph Chamberlain - who understood the new arts of organising politics in a mass democracy, but whose approach elicited enormous controversy amongst traditionalists as saw them as 'entryists' pushing new radical agendas.
Dr. Blaxill and Mr. Saleh are amongst the most eminent historians of British Electoral Politics in the world, having authored more than twenty books and articles on the subject, and having been featured on TV and Radio. Follow Dr. Blaxill on Twitter @BlaxillLuke Visit Dr. Blaxill's Website: www.lukeblaxill.com/ Follow Mr. Saleh on Twitter: @TaymSaleh