Last November, Alexander Larman’s Spectator piece on Gladstone’s Library brought to readers’ attention one of the most important features of the four-time Victorian prime minister’s life: his reading. At a time when decades of educational hyper-specialism has made for fewer truly well-rounded individuals, William Gladstone’s life and thought is a firm reminder that things were not always this way.
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