{"product_id":"2026100009890-secondhand-the-gladstone-diaries-volume-vi-1861-1868","title":"The Gladstone Diaries: Volume Vi : 1861-1868","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew political figures in British history cast as long a shadow as William Ewart Gladstone, and The Gladstone Diaries: Volume VI, 1861–1868 grants an extraordinary, unfiltered window into the mind of one of Victorian England's most consequential statesmen. This sixth volume chronicles a pivotal and tumultuous chapter in Gladstone's life, spanning the years from his growing authority within the Liberal Party to the eve of his first great premiership, capturing with remarkable intimacy his private reflections, his formidable intellectual life, and the moral convictions that drove his public crusades.\n\nEdited with scholarly rigour by H. C. Matthew of Christ Church, Oxford, this edition presents the diaries not merely as a historical record but as a rich primary source that illuminates the complex intersection of faith, finance, and political ambition in mid-Victorian Britain. Matthew's authoritative editorial hand contextualises Gladstone's famously dense and wide-ranging entries — touching on parliamentary affairs, theological study, classical reading, and charitable work — transforming the raw personal text into an indispensable resource for students of nineteenth-century politics and culture. For anyone seeking to understand how power, conscience, and high-mindedness shaped the Victorian era, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final entry: what manner of man truly was Gladstone?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203395559643,"sku":"2026100009890-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c96d30dd-ecc4-4677-bd7c-638b59e62321.png?v=1788148556","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009890-secondhand-the-gladstone-diaries-volume-vi-1861-1868","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}