Title Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Gladstone, Chalmers and the Disruption of the Church of Scotland -- 'The Strict Line of Political Succession'? Gladstone's Relationship with Peel: An Apt Pupil? -- Gladstone and Homer -- Gladstone and Parliamentary Reform -- Gladstone, Liberalism and the Government of 1868-1874 -- Gladstone and Cobden -- Networking through Sound Establishments: How Gladstone Could Make Dissenting Sense -- Gladstone and Irish Nationalism: Achievement and Reputation -- In the Front Rank of the Nation: Gladstone and the Unionists of Ireland, 1868-1893 -- Exporting 'Western & Beneficent Institutions': Gladstone and Empire, 1880-1885 -- Gladstone's Fourth Administration, 1892-1894 -- 'Carving the Last Few Columns out of the Gladstonian Quarry': The Liberal Leaders and the Mantle of Gladstone, 1898-1929 -- William Ewart Gladstone: A Select Bibliography -- Index.