Podcast appearances and mentions of joseph chamberlain

Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/G_SpC_BV4jAIn the late nineteenth century, Joseph Chamberlain transformed Birmingham with municipal enterprise and urban improvement, but in the last few years, local authorities have been facing serious financial difficulties, and some of the largest, such as Birmingham, have faced the equivalent of bankruptcy. This lecture will ask why British cities have lost the confident civic pride of the Victorian era and are now struggling to provide basic services from a limited financial base. Most importantly: What can be done to regenerate British towns and cities?     This lecture was recorded by Martin Daunton on 24th April 2025 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.Professor Martin Daunton is Visiting Gresham Professor of Economic History.He is a British academic and historian. He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, between 2004 and 2014. He is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge.He has written two books on the history of taxation in Britain – Trusting Leviathan and Just Taxes, and co-edited with colleagues in Berlin a volume of essays on the political economy of public finance in leading OECD countries since the 1970s. His book The Economic Government of the World, 1933 to 2023 was published by Allen Lane in 2023.The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/cities-bankruptGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involved/support-us/make-donation/donate-todayWebsite:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport Us: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involved/support-us/make-donation/donate-todaySupport the show

Today we explore the explosive fight over tariffs that took place in Britain in the first decade of the twentieth century. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about how Joseph Chamberlain made tariff reform a great popular cause and how it nearly destroyed his party. Are there parallels with Trump's tariff wars today? Yes! Are there lessons for Trump's opponents too? Yes! Out now on PPF+: Lenin and Trotsky part 2, taking the story on from 1917 to explore civil war, the rise of Stalin and the re-invention of Trotskyism. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: The Smoot-Hawley disaster (and Trump!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

rWotD Episode 2918: Austen Chamberlain Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Wednesday, 30 April 2025, is Austen Chamberlain.Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 45 years, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (twice) and was briefly Conservative Party leader before serving as Foreign Secretary.Brought up to be the political heir of his father, whom he physically resembled, he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal Unionist at a by-election in 1892. He held office in the Unionist coalition governments of 1895–1905, remaining in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903–05) after his father resigned in 1903 to campaign for Tariff Reform. After his father's disabling stroke in 1906, Austen became the leading tariff reformer in the House of Commons. Late in 1911 he and Walter Long were due to compete for the leadership of the Conservative Party (in succession to Arthur Balfour), but both withdrew in favour of Bonar Law rather than risk a party split on a close result.Chamberlain returned to office in H. H. Asquith's wartime coalition government in May 1915, as Secretary of State for India, but resigned to take responsibility for the disastrous Kut Campaign. He again returned to office in David Lloyd George's coalition government, once again serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He then served as Conservative Party leader in the Commons (1921–1922), before resigning after the Carlton Club meeting voted to end the Lloyd George Coalition.Like many leading coalitionists, he did not hold office in the Conservative governments of 1922–1924. By now regarded as an elder statesman, he served an important term as Foreign Secretary in Stanley Baldwin's second government (1924–1929). He negotiated the Locarno Treaties (1925), aimed at preventing war between France and Germany, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Chamberlain last held office as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1931. He was one of the few MPs supporting Winston Churchill's appeals for rearmament against the German threat in the 1930s and remained an active backbench MP until his death in 1937.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:18 UTC on Wednesday, 30 April 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Austen Chamberlain on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Amy.

Was Leopold Bloom ever totally radical?Topics in this episode include Bloom's memory of a protest, Bloom's view of the police, the significance of soup imagery, the origins of the Boer War, Irish Nationalist opposition to the Boer War, Joseph Chamberlain, Christiaan de Wet, the irony of Irish Nationalist support for the Boer cause, a French depiction of the protests in Dublin, the class politics of political protest, Sean O'Casey's daring showdown with a mounter police officer, profiting from the colonization of Africa, poetry as propaganda, a Parnell conspiracy theory, Bloom's failed attempts to seem more patriotic than he is, the wrong Gough in the park, Bloom's own profiteering, and the fate of Percy Apjohn.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast. On the Blog:Up the Boers!Decoding Dedalus: Hamlet, ou le Absentminded BeggarBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 

The tragedy that struck Joseph Chamberlain in 1906, a massive stroke that paralysed his right side and left this outstanding orator barely capable of speaking, allowed ex-Prime Minister Arthur Balfour to confirm his leadership of the opposition to the Liberal government and of the Unionists in the Commons. He and Lord Lansdowne, in the Lords where the Unionists enjoyed a huge majority, worked hard together to frustrate Liberal legislative proposals. They did, however, let through the Old Age Pensions Act, at least in part because they accepted the government argument that it was a ‘money bill', a financial measure, and by convention such bills were initiated in the Commons and accepted unamended by the Lords. It came into effect in 1908 and represented a turning point. It was the first step towards the welfare state, and it marked the point when the Liberal Party abandoned classical Liberalism, focused on curbing government spending and avoiding interventions into what were called ‘condition of the people' matters. New Liberalism took steps to alleviate poverty and was prepared to accept the increased government expenditure that this entailed. Illustration: Amedee Forestier, Pension Day Pensioners Collecting their Old Age Pension, 1909, public domain image made available by WikiGallery.org Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

A factor of small but growing importance at the end of Salisbury's premierships, and during Balfour's that followed, was offered by the Labour Representation Committee. It had been formed by trades unions working with left-wing parties of the working class, most notably Keir Hardie's Independent Labour Party. With no MPs before the election of 1900, it had grown to four by 1903 which, in an environment in which third parties have trouble establishing themselves, was a substantial development. Meanwhile, the ruling Unionists were beginning to divide against each other. The question that finally split them was Tariff reform, the same issue that had split them back in 1846 when Robert Peel repealed the corn laws to usher in a long period of free trade without tariffs, but in the opposite direction: the tariff reformers at the start of the twentieth century, led by Joseph Chamberlain, wanted to reintroduce tariffs. The aim was both to create barriers protecting British industry and agriculture (even if that meant increasing the price of food, painful above all for the poor), and to allow for imperial preference, the system which would draw the colonies closer to the mother country by exempting their economies from certain tariffs. Three factions emerged within the Unionist coalition, right up to cabinet level. One, led by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, remained wedded to free trade. A second, the Prime Minister's, was sympathetic but wanted to proceed slowly. The third, Chamberlain's, was for rapid introduction of tariffs and imperial preference. Split parties don't win elections, and now the Unionists were hopelessly split. With an election looming. Illustration: Some of the white, male attendees at the 1902 Colonial Conference. Joseph Chamberlain is in the middle of the front row, with Wilfrid Laurier,Prime Minister of Canada to his right (our left). Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

Salisbury was back for his third term in office, but for now without a majority in the House of Commons. He had to form a government, and for the first time it would include Liberal Unionists as ministers. One of them, Joseph Chamberlain, surprised Salisbury by choosing to be named Secretary of State for the Colonies in preference to either of the great posts he'd been offered. It seemed that imperialism mattered more to him. With a government in place, Salisbury took the country to a general election. He won with a landslide. In this episode, however, we take a break from all that to look at some of the great breakthroughs, other than his electoral triumph, taking place at that time, specifically in the sciences. Physics was surging. So were the life sciences. So indeed was medicine, but we'll come back to that next week, when we look at women in that male-dominated field. In particular, one man proposed a disturbingly new scientific viewpoint. That was Charles Darwin, with his highly contentious theory of evolution. One of his admirers, it turned out, was none other than the Prime Minister himself. And, even more surprisingly, when Salisbury did differ from Darwin, his argument was well-founded in science. Not something one would expect from most British Prime Ministers. Illustration: Charles Darwin, pen and ink portrait by Harry Furniis, National Portrait Gallery 6251(16) Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

In this episode of the podcast Will speaks to Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King's College, London, about his recently published book Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain. They discuss Birmingham's origins, the role of Birmingham in the career of Joseph Chamberlain, the emergence of the city as a leading industrial power and the political state of Birmingham and the West Midlands today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue his series on "Churchill the Writer". On this episode, Dr. Arnn and Hugh discuss Great Contemporaries, a collection of 25 short biographical essays written by Churchill, and the story of Joseph Chamberlain. Release date: 17 March 2023  More information and episodes here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue his series on “Churchill the Writer”. On this episode, Dr. Arnn and Hugh discuss Great Contemporaries, a collection of 25 short biographical essays written by Churchill, and the story of Joseph Chamberlain. Release date: 17 March 2023 More information and episodes here. See omnystudio.com/listener for […]

Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue his series on "Churchill the Writer." On this episode, Dr. Arnn and Hugh discuss Great Contemporaries, a collection of 25 short biographical essays written by Churchill, and the story of Joseph Chamberlain. Release date: 17 March 2023  More information and episodes here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last year, to mark 300 years since Robert Walpole became Prime Minister, Matt Chorley learnt about every PM through history each week. This year, Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies has gone through every Leader of the Opposition and as a festive treat you'll be able to listen to each episode on the podcast this weekIn this episode, Sir William Harcourt, John Spencer, George Robinson, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice and Joseph Chamberlain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El último de los congresos presidido por Theodor Herzl, se llevó a cabo en Basilea, Suiza. Hasta ese momento, el sexto congreso Sionista, fue el más grande, con aproximadamente 600 delegados. El tema principal fue una propuesta de Gran Bretaña para un hogar nacional judío en Uganda. Durante una reunión en abril con Herzl, Joseph Chamberlain, el secretario colonial británico, había propuesto un establecimiento autónomo en África del Este. Herzl quería utilizar esta solución provisoria para aliviar el sufrimiento de los judíos en Europa. Con una votación de 295 a favor y 178 en contra con 98 abstenciones, el congreso decidió enviar una comisión a África del este a investigar las posibilidades para establecer un hogar judío allí. La delegación rusa se retiró porque no querían abandonar la idea de un hogar nacional judío en la Tierra de Israel. La cuestión de Uganda causó una fractura seria pero temporal dentro del liderazgo sionista. El siguiente congreso Sionista realizado en 1905 rechazó de forma oficial la propuesta de Uganda y reenfocó la atención a las actividades sionistas internacionales en Palestina.

Last year, to mark 300 years since Robert Walpole became Prime Minister, Matt Chorley learnt about every PM through history each week. This year, he's learning about each Leader of the Opposition with Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies. Each month you'll find a collection of episodes on the podcast.This month, Sir William Harcourt, John Spencer, George Robinson, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice and Joseph Chamberlain. Listen live to the next Leader of the Opposition every Monday morning from 10am on Times Radio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A general is captured at Tweebosch, a "glorious" charge at Rooiwal, and peace negotiations are taken up again. 1) To read the article about the British Women's Emigration Association before it goes behind a paywall, go to this link: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/blog/ 2) Learn more about the day, the year that blacks finally got the vote in South Africa: https://apnews.com/article/114b08c396d444f7b1de900b481ea059 3) Send me your share screen shots and your show questions using this link: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/contact/ 4) Support the show here: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/donate/ OR here: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/merch/ 5) Visit our Patreon page to vote on a bonus episode topic: https://www.patreon.com/forgottenwars 6) Learn more about South Africa's history after the Anglo-Boer War in these episodes from the Africa Past & Present Podcast. Episode 87: http://afripod.aodl.org/2014/12/afripod-87/ Episode 102: http://afripod.aodl.org/2016/06/afripod-102/ Episode 112: http://afripod.aodl.org/page/2/ Episode 117: http://afripod.aodl.org/2018/05/afripod-117/

Bergendal, Churchill's book tour, guerrilla warfare, De Wet's 4-pronged invasion, Botha and Kitchener's peace talks, and blockhouses ... all that in this episode. 1) Learn more dates and districts for Churchill's elections using this article: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/reference/churchills-elections/ 2) Be a reason that there is a Q&A episode by using this link to send me questions related to the history we've covered: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/contact/ 3) As of July 8, 2021, the show has yet to earn its first dollar of gross income. Be the first to help the show go on here: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/donate/ OR here: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/merch/

Finally ... the story of Boer & black concentration camps in southern Africa during the South African War of 1899-1902. 1. If you want a Q&A episode, send questions you have about the Boer Wars or these concentration camps to me using the following link: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/contact/. The more quality questions I get, the more likely I'll produce a Q&A episode. 2. A thorough article about the history behind a deeply troubling photo from a concentration camp, a photo used by many as click bait: https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/AJA02590190_616 3. Want to try Master Class or support the show in some other way, go to this link: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/donate/ 4. If you want to learn more about concentration camps during that moment in history across the world, you may appreciate this article ... one of several I used to prepare for this episode: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26266238. You will need a free Jstor account to access this article.

Today's guest is Feyi Fawehinmi, author of Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation. Feyi joins us on the show to talk about the period of history in Nigeria that his book covers and we kick things of hearing our guest talk about his reasons for writing the book. After the Civil War in Nigeria, there was a cultural prohibition on developing a sense of history because of the risk of upsetting an unstable political equilibrium. This combined with a very demographically young country means that many people, therefore, don't know the history of the formation of their state. After providing the context behind the book, Feyi dives into the events it covers, beginning in 1804 with a Jihad led by the Fulani in the northwest part of today's Nigeria which led to the Sokoto caliphate. Feyi takes us through the effects of this Jihad, the role of the ending of the transatlantic slave trade, and the events that led up to European colonization. He gets into the tactics the British used to take over and rule Nigeria and then brings us right up to the present moment in Nigeria. After weighing in on some of the current tensions around migration and oil, Feyi gives us his perspectives on whether we can still expect Nigeria to be a state in 30 years. Wrapping up on a more positive note, we speak about Nigeria's status as a tech hub and hear Feyi's views on why this might be. Key Points From This Episode: • A biased telling of history in Nigeria after the civil war and how Feyi's book corrects this. • The situation in Nigeria where Feyi's book starts from; the waging of a state-building jihad in 1804. • Local slavery practices in Nigeria during the caliphate versus how Europeans treated slaves. • The role of the ending of the transatlantic slave trade in events in Nigeria. • Tsetse flies making animal husbandry difficult and the main role of slaves in Nigeria for transportation. • How missionary educated slaves returned to Nigeria and became a new elite. • The bargain struck by the new elite to stop violent neighboring tribes which led to colonization. • Events that led to the formation of the Hausa-Fulani and Feyi's definition of ethnic groups. • The diverse amount of languages and ethnic groups in Nigeria and the movements that led to this. • The power play between Europeans in Nigeria and what led to them heading inland. • The role of the maxim gun and the Berlin conference in the spread of colonialism in Nigeria. • Joseph Chamberlain's approach and how the Europeans developed and governed Nigeria. • Why Britain ended up deciding to amalgamate North and South Nigeria. • The difference between French and British colonialism and the after-effects on former colonies. • The current situation in Nigeria; weaponization of civil war and discrimination against Igbo people. • Climate change causing Fulani migrations to feed cattle and the tensions this is causing. • Feyi's perspectives on whether Nigeria will still be a state in 30 years. • Thoughts from Feyi on why Nigeria is such a tech hub.   Links Mentioned in Today's Episode: https://twitter.com/DoubleEph?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Feyi Fawehinmi on Twitter) https://www.amazon.com/Formation-Making-Nigeria-Jihad-Amalgamation/dp/191317509X#:~:text=Formation:%20From%20Jihad%20to%20Amalgamation,countries%20along%20the%20Niger%20river. (Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation) Support this podcast

A brief look at young man Churchill before he embarks on his South African adventure, and how he "ran into" some of South Africa's most famous Notes: Treat yourself to Master Class using the following link: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=797461&u=2673298&m=62509&urllink=&afftrack= Read more about "heliographs" mentioned in this episode before the 2-part article I wrote goes behind a paywall: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/blog/ Support the show in other ways using this link: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/donate/ Buy from our store here: https://forgottenwarspodcast.com/product/mask-w-black-background/

A series of after-dinner chats between Oxbridge academics about British General Elections through time, from 1868 to present day. EPISODE 4: 'JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN & THE NEW DEMOCRACY' Dr. Luke Blaxill (Hertford College, Oxford) and Mr. Taym Saleh (Queen's College, Cambridge) discus the 1885 General Election, which was the first election to be held after the landmark 1883-85 electoral reforms which reshaped the British system to something approaching a mass democracy. Step forwards two new titans of late Victorian politics, Joseph Chamberlain - the 'new man' who sought to harness the new democracy to power his vision of municipal socialism. And Lord Salisbury - the old aristocrat who had mastered the modern arts to meet the challenge thrown down by the radical gauntlet. Dr. Blaxill and Mr. Saleh discuss the role of corrupt practice in elections (and the attempt to eliminate it) and the massive contemporary question of extending the franchise to the rustic and unsophisticated agricultural labourers. They then turn to Chamberlain's 'Unauthorised Programme' of 1885 and its associated red-hot radical contents: wealth and land tax, free education, land reform, and the Disestablishment of the Church of England. 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

It's an ongoing debate among this coming war's historians and enthusiasts: Was Milner most responsible for starting the Second Boer War aka the South African War ... OR were others just as responsible? This episode and the next attempt to give you background to help you work to come to your own conclusion. As a newcomer and an American, I can honestly tell you that I'm not trying to sway you one way or the other. But my podcast episodes are only a start. If you'd like access to all the sources I consulted for these episodes, consider supporting the show below. 1) Get more from the show and help it grow by visiting our Patreon page at patreon.com/forgottenwars 2) If you have show questions or guest suggestions, email us at forgottenwarspodcast@gmail.com

The Raid helps Kruger. But will Kruger set the Transvaal up for its destruction? Would love it if you would help keep the show going by rating and sharing the podcast!

Events that some call the first shots of the Second Boer War. Cecil Rhodes's previous episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/forgotten-wars/id1535351938?i=1000494291050 Would love it if you would help keep the show going by rating and sharing the podcast!

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

Today’s guest is Theresa May's former joint chief of staff, Nick Timothy. Many will recall his bushy beard during his time running Mrs. May’s administration; a style of grooming by which the tabloids dubbed him, “Brummie Rasputin” but they’ll have find a new nickname for him now! Nick formulated and wrote policy in the Home Office before ascending to the corridors of Number Ten where he wrote Mrs. May’s 2017 General Election manifesto. But he didn't see out her premiership, taking the hit with Fiona Hill for her disastrous campaign, an experience he calls "both brutal and chastening". His career resumed as both a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and author of "Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism", in which he outlines a restoration of civic capitalism as the way to bring a bruised and divided country together. We also discuss the problems of globalisation, the West’s future relations with China which he's long warned about, lessons learned for both major parties from the 2019 General Election and he hits back at an allegation of antisemitism from the left-wing magazine, The New Statesman. A Brummie like me, Nick cites another son of Birmingham, the 19th Century’s Joseph Chamberlain as his political hero. LISTEN NOW to Nick Timothy. Have you listened to a few of Jonny’s podcasts? He makes them for free and if you enjoy his shows, you can help support him at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=BW4GZLQCCL29Y&item_name=Podcast+production+¤cy_code=GBP&source=url

With Time We Can brings you EPISODE 8 featuring this weeks guest Joseph Chamberlain

In this second of two podcasts on the voyage to America made in 1874 by Birmingham's lost philosopher, Professor Ewan Fernie, Director of the ‘Everything to Everybody' Project, and the project's American Lead, Professor Katherine Scheil, continue their discussion with the Publisher of History West Midlands, Mike Gibbs.  In this episode,  they discuss how Dawson and Shakespeare reached the American frontier.  They bring out the wider impact of Birmingham's nineteenth-century culture on the developing cultural identity of the United States.  They unfold a range of intimate relationships between American Shakespeareans and Dawson.  And they discuss how Dawson's quiet right-hand man, the industrialist and bibliophile, Samuel Timmins, was also a major influence on American Shakespeareans.  Overall, this programme evokes an energetic transatlantic scholarly community reaching from Birmingham across America, an international Shakespearean fellowship who were working out a new culture for new times.  The podcast ends by dwelling on the implications of an exciting discovery recently made by Scheil and Fernie of some 300 letters by Samuel Timmins to the American Shakespearean, J. Parker Norris, in the Folger Shakespeare Library, now the greatest Shakespeare Library in the world.  As Scheil and Fernie explain, this is just one of the historic connections between Birmingham's great Shakespeare Library and America's, and it confirms a lost Shakespearean axis which links Birmingham to the cultural history of the United States. The ‘Everything to Everybody' Project is a major lottery-funded collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council.  Dawson founded the world's first great Shakespeare Library in the city in 1864 and the project aims to unlock that pioneering public resource for all the citizens of contemporary Birmingham and to recover the ‘everything to everybody' ethos it embodies.  To get involved and for more podcasts, articles, films, Please see the project website: https://everythingtoeverybody.bham.ac.uk/.  Follow us on Twitter @E2EShakespeare. Keywords: George Dawson, Everything to Everybody, Professor Ewan Fernie, Joseph Chamberlain, Birmingham

In 1874, Birmingham's most famous politician, Joseph Chamberlain sent George Dawson across the Atlantic as ‘Birmingham's Ambassador to America' – almost as if Birmingham were a cultural power in its own right.  Dawson went down a storm in America, and his trip was enthusiastically reported back home.  But Dawson's  embassy to America has since been almost entirely forgotten in Birmingham and in the United States. Now the ‘Everything to Everybody' Project has started to uncover the traces.  In this the first of two History West Midlands podcasts, the Director of the ‘Everything to Everybody' Project, Professor Ewan Fernie, and the project's American champion, Professor Katherine Scheil of the University of Minnesota, piece the story together for the Publisher of History West Midlands, Mike Gibbs.  They talk about where Dawson went, who he spoke to, what he talked about, what he thought of America and Americans, and what they thought of him. It is a story which begins to unlock a forgotten and special relationship between Birmingham and America at a time when each was working out its own distinctive relationship  to ‘establishment' British culture. The ‘Everything to Everybody' Project is a major lottery-funded collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council.  Dawson founded the world's first great Shakespeare Library in the city in 1864 and the project aims to unlock that pioneering public resource for all the citizens of contemporary Birmingham and to recover the ‘everything to everybody' ethos it embodies.  To get involved and for more podcasts, articles, films, please see the project website: https://everythingtoeverybody.bham.ac.uk/.  Follow us on Twitter @E2EShakespeare.  Keywords: George Dawson, Everything to Everybody, Professor Ewan Fernie, Joseph Chamberlain, Birmingham

Joseph Chamberlain was one of the dominant figures of political life in Britain and its Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famously described by a young Winston Churchill as ‘the man who made the political weather’. But less attention has been given to Chamberlain’s  personal life which was scarred by tragedy when his first two wives died in childbirth.  Then, after more than a decade, Joe surprised everyone when  he met and proposed to the beautiful American Mary Endicott, the much younger daughter of a member of the US cabinet. Mary became Joe’s third wife and the step mother of his children including Austen and Neville who would later become Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minster respectively. At Chamberlain’s homes at Highbury in Birmingham and in London, Mary was a famous hostess who, for more than two decades, was at the very centre of the country’s political and social life.  Then after Joe suffered a stroke in 1906 she remained at his side until he died in 1914. Intrigued by Mary, historian Justine Pick spent more than a year researching her voluminous correspondence to uncover the life this charismatic woman and her marriage to Chamberlain.  In this programme Justine talks to  History West Midlands publisher Mike Gibbs. Keywords: Mary Endicott, Justine Pick, Joseph Chamberlain, Highbury, Birmingham Picture courtesy of: CCO – Birmingham Museums Trust 

For the first time author and historian Andrew Reekes has laid bare how Joseph Chamberlain with his relations, colleagues and friends turned Birmingham and the West Midlands into his personal political fortress. His domination lasted for more than 30 years - A political feat never been repeated before or since. In this fascinating new book The Birmingham Political Machine: Winning Elections for Joseph Chamberlain Andrew reveals how the organisation they created changed British politics forever. In this programme he talks to our publisher Mike Gibbs. Keywords: Highbury, Joseph Chamberlain, Birmingham Politics, Tariff Reform, Political Machine

Gisela Stuart, the former Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston makes the case for Joseph Chamberlain to be nominated as her great life. But can she really make the case for this former industrialist who made it to the cabinet but had a knack for splitting political parties and switching allegiances? Jo Chamberlain was first a Liberal then a Liberal Unionist and finally formed an alliance with the Conservative party but fell out with them too. Gisela argues he was a man who wasn't afraid to take action, a radical who shouldn't simply be remembered for his failures but as "the man who made the weather" and for making Birmingham the best governed city in the world. The expert witness is Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University of Birmingham and author of 'Joseph Chamberlain, Entrepreneur in Politics.' Matthew Parris is the presenter and the producer is Perminder Khatkar.

A hundred years ago, England’s municipal governments were the envy of the world. Every city ran its own trams, power and water systems, and the town hall was often the best looking building in town. Today, CityMetric’s excitement about the rise of the metro mayor notwithstanding, England is one of the most centralised countries in the western world. So what went wrong? To take us on a whistle stop history of municipal England, I’m joined by self-professed local government nerd Emma Burnell. Our conversation takes in everything from Joseph Chamberlain to Clement Attlee to Derek Hatton to the Grenfell fire. After that, we ask the audience: what’s the strangest local government name/boundary/job title you’ve come across? From the responses, incidentally, I am delighted to see that we’ve accidentally made the Tees Valley’s own Sue Jeffrey into a meme. PS: if you’d like to give us a nice review on iTunes, it'd help other people discover the show, which we'd, y'know, like. So, thanks. Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman's cities site, CityMetric. It's hosted by Jonn Elledge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, Birmingham provided the platform for many of the most important political speeches made outside Parliament. In this fascinating new book, historian Andrew Reekes discusses the impact of some of these speeches, the charismatic orators who delivered them and the mercurial relationship between orator and audience. Reekes also explores the importance of Birmingham as a platform at times of great social and economic change when the town - and later the city - was a centre of radicalism which challenged the establishment thinking of London. To set the scene, Jenni Butterworth of History West Midlands, talks to author Andrew Reekes and historian Professor Peter Marsh, about the new book - to explore evidence of how Birmingham acquired the reputation of espousing radical politics and causes. KEYWORDS: Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Austen Chamberlain, John Bright, Thomas Attwood, Oswald Mosley, Enoch Powell, Town Hall, Reform, Non-Conformism, Radicals, Andrew Reekes, Book

Carl Chinn takes us on a walk along Frederick Street in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham. We start at the foot of the clock tower erected by local people to celebrate one of Birmingham’s heroes, Joseph Chamberlain, on his return from South Africa in 1904. As we move along the street, Carl introduces us to the men and women whose lives were lived in the Quarter and who made it globally famous. Here are the Fattorini’s, famed makers of medals, badges and insignia and the silver factory of J.W. Evans whose workshops have remained unchanged for over a century. The short journey ends among the fascinating exhibits of the Pen Museum where Carl meets Bob Stanyard and Colin Giles. They discuss how Birmingham’s makers produced more than 20 million pens every week in the 1870s and how these cheap but precisely engineered nibs spread writing and the written word around the world. KEYWORDS: Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, Speeches, Pen Industry, Pen Museum, Medal Making, Joseph Chamberlain, Carl Chinn, Walks, Books

It’s our back to school episode. We pick up in the middle of a conversation about the order of the months of the calendar and then turn to our main topic: how to teach law. With Mehrsa Baradaran we delve into why classes might turn on you, how to manage the awkward student-teacher relationship, and presumptions of competence and incompetence. We dig into Mehrsa’s Teaching While Woman blog post and all our experiences with privileges, failures, and successes. First names, last names, cold-calling? Authenticity, professionalism, and, obviously, nudist colonies. Also: Mehrsa’s aspiration to be the Postmaster General and Joe’s to be, somehow, a “Lord High Chancellor." This show’s links: Mehrsa Baradaran’s faculty profile and last appearance on Oral Argument The Solar Hijra calendar and the Islamic calendar Mehrsa Baradaran, Teaching While Woman Lyrissa Lidsky, Ten (okay, Nineteen) Tips for New Law Professors Jodi Kantor, Harvard Business School Case Study: Gender Equity Wikipedia on Implicit association testing Project Implicit Paul Ford, How to Be Polite Christian’s imagined monocle-based approach to formality in the classroom: The Postmaster General and Executive Leadership Team (note: The current Postmaster General is Patrick Donahoe.) About the office of the Postmaster General (including information concerning the first Postmaster General, no spoilers, but…) Special Guest: Mehrsa Baradaran.

Sir Keith Joseph was the most articulate and powerful of the postwar exponents of the market economy at a time when it was distinctly unfashionable. He it was who provided the ideological dynamic for what came to be called Thatcherism. Indeed, Margaret Thatcher dedicated a volume of her autobiography to him, and declared that her reforms could never have been achieved without him. But he has also been an important influence on Tony Blair's New Labour. We still inhabit a world largely created by Keith Joseph, and we will probably continue to do so for a long time to come.This is a part of the lecture series, Making the Weather: Six politicians who shaped our age.Winston Churchill wrote of Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary at the beginning of the 20th century, that, even though he never became Prime Minister, he 'made the weather', meaning that he played a crucial role in shaping the political agenda of his day. These lectures discuss six postwar politicians, none of whom became Prime Minister, but who, like Joseph Chamberlain, also made the weather and so helped to shape the age in which we live.

Roy Jenkins was Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967 and again from 1974 to 1976. He sponsored homosexual law reform and the legalisation of abortion as well as legislation outlawing racial discrimination. He helped create what its supporters called the civilised society but its enemies labelled the permissive society. During the 1970s, Jenkins's support for European unity put him at odds with many in the Labour Party; and in 1981, he helped found the new but short-lived Social Democratic Party. Meanwhile, as President of the European Commission, he had played a fundamental part in launching the idea of European monetary union.This is a part of the lecture series, Making the Weather: Six politicians who shaped our age.Winston Churchill wrote of Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary at the beginning of the 20th century, that, even though he never became Prime Minister, he 'made the weather', meaning that he played a crucial role in shaping the political agenda of his day. These lectures discuss six postwar politicians, none of whom became Prime Minister, but who, like Joseph Chamberlain, also made the weather and so helped to shape the age in which we live.

Iain Macleod was, with Joseph Chamberlain, one of two great Colonial Secretaries of the 20th century. In the early 1960s, he ensured the rapid ending of Britain's African empire. This allowed Britain to avoid the imperial traumas which afflicted France and Portugal. If the African ex-colonies choose to remain in the multi-racial Commonwealth, that in large part is due to Iain Macleod.This is a part of the lecture series, Making the Weather: Six politicians who shaped our age.

Elizabeth Harman was born in London in 1906. Her parents were both doctors, her mother was the niece of Joseph Chamberlain and cousin of Neville Chamberlain, the future Prime Minister. She was one of only a few girls at that time to attend Oxford University. Joining the social set that included John Betjemen, Evelyn Waugh and Maurice Bowra, she became one of the first female Isis idols and was proposed to numerous times before she accepted Frank Pakenham, who was later to succeed to the Longford earldom. Ever since the occasion she was read Homer's Illiad as a child and felt sympathy for the Trojans, Elizabeth had developed a sympathy for the underdog. And when she began teaching at Oxford in a summer school for the working classes from the Potteries, this sympathy was consolidated. She became interested in politics and a Labour supporter and was to become a Labour party candidate twice, in 1935 and 1950, but never elected to parliament. Elizabeth married Frank Pakenham in 1931 and they had eight children by 1947. Her experience and expertise with a large family came to the notice of The Daily Express, and she was soon to be writing a column. This led to her first book, Points for Parents, which was published in 1954. It was the start of her writing career. Her next subject, Queen Victoria, was more ambitious: she felt the Queen had been misrepresented in the past and by looking at her and Prince Albert as human beings she adopted a different approach. Elizabeth had access to the Royal archives at Windsor and spent many days in the library there imagining how the Queen would have lived. As well as her book on Victoria, Lady Longford wrote books about Wellington; The House of Windsor; Byron; The Queen Mother; and Queen Elizabeth, as well as her own autobiography. She remains an experienced authority on families and marriage: her own lasted almost seventy years until she was widowed last year. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: I Vow To Thee My Country by Westminster Abbey Choir Book: Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran - Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia by Lawrence Kelly Luxury: An orange tree

Elizabeth Harman was born in London in 1906. Her parents were both doctors, her mother was the niece of Joseph Chamberlain and cousin of Neville Chamberlain, the future Prime Minister. She was one of only a few girls at that time to attend Oxford University. Joining the social set that included John Betjemen, Evelyn Waugh and Maurice Bowra, she became one of the first female Isis idols and was proposed to numerous times before she accepted Frank Pakenham, who was later to succeed to the Longford earldom. Ever since the occasion she was read Homer's Illiad as a child and felt sympathy for the Trojans, Elizabeth had developed a sympathy for the underdog. And when she began teaching at Oxford in a summer school for the working classes from the Potteries, this sympathy was consolidated. She became interested in politics and a Labour supporter and was to become a Labour party candidate twice, in 1935 and 1950, but never elected to parliament. Elizabeth married Frank Pakenham in 1931 and they had eight children by 1947. Her experience and expertise with a large family came to the notice of The Daily Express, and she was soon to be writing a column. This led to her first book, Points for Parents, which was published in 1954. It was the start of her writing career. Her next subject, Queen Victoria, was more ambitious: she felt the Queen had been misrepresented in the past and by looking at her and Prince Albert as human beings she adopted a different approach. Elizabeth had access to the Royal archives at Windsor and spent many days in the library there imagining how the Queen would have lived. As well as her book on Victoria, Lady Longford wrote books about Wellington; The House of Windsor; Byron; The Queen Mother; and Queen Elizabeth, as well as her own autobiography. She remains an experienced authority on families and marriage: her own lasted almost seventy years until she was widowed last year. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: I Vow To Thee My Country by Westminster Abbey Choir Book: Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran - Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia by Lawrence Kelly Luxury: An orange tree