{"product_id":"gladstone-diaries-volume-12-1887-1891","title":"Gladstone Diaries: Volume 12: 1887-1891","description":"The last two volumes of Gladstone's diaries depict the extraordinary energy of a remarkable octogenarian: Gladstone was eighty-four when he resigned the Premiership in 1894 to close his fourth administration. His pursuit of `justice for Ireland' through the successful passage of a Home Rule Bill through the Commons in 1893 forms the political centrepiece of these volumes. But there is also a wealth of material on imperial, foreign, domestic, and religious politics contained in the daily diary enteries, the minutes of the Cabinets of the 1892-4 government, and the five hundred letters which accompany the enteries for the governmental period.\n\nGladstone's life-style made few concessions to his age: his reading, writing, theatre-going, and trips abroad continue, as do his speech-writing and his church-going. His declining eyesight eventually curtailed his reading and led to the end of regular diary-writing in 1894. His vast diary, which he began in 1825, ends in 1896. Its final entries are a moving conclusion to one of the most remarkable and one the most curious documents of British history.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54230106308952,"sku":"9780198204633","price":372.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780198204633_04a01a38-c2b3-4d5e-8cb1-fbdbdcfaa5dd.jpg?v=1779940865","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/gladstone-diaries-volume-12-1887-1891","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}