Gladstone - Man of His Century



5-6pm Friday 30th June. 
Tickets are £10
In-person only.

A public lecture held by conference organiser and Gladstone scholar David Brooks. 
 “Gladstone – man of his century” offers a perspective of William Ewart Gladstone, four-times Prime Minister and founder of this Library. 

Speaker David Brooks was educated at Bedford School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he later became a Fellow. His doctoral thesis was on Gladstone’s Fourth Ministry, 1892-94, and his published works include The Destruction of Lord Rosebery, 1894-95 and The Age of Upheaval: Edwardian politics, 1899-1914. For most of his career he has taught in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London.

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