Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Gladstone vs Disraeli – The Bulgarian Horrors

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In our occasional series with historian Robert Saunders about significant political anniversaries, we remember the appearance of a pamphlet exactly 150 years ago that changed the course of British politics. On 6th September 1876 William Gladstone published The Bulgarian Horrors: The Question of the East, which reignited and reshaped his epic rivalry with Benjamin Disraeli. What made the two men such different kinds of politicians? How did the question of empire split political and public opinion? Who were the winners and losers from this showdown? Was this the dawn of a new age of populism? Out now on PPF+: a bonus episode to accompany our series on the lives of twentieth-century…