David Steel
Baron Steel of Aikwood Liberal/Liberal Democrat MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk & Peebles 1965-83, Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale 1983-97 Liberal Democrat MSP for Lothians 1999-2003 Liberal Chief Whip 1970-76, Leader of the Liberal Party 1976-88 Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament 1999-2003
Date of birth: 31 March 1938
Date of death: 20 September 2024
Histories (subject)
The following histories are about David Steel or mention them in some way:
Journal Articles (subject)
The following histories are about David Steel or mention them in some way:
- Holding the balance
- How the Liberal Party became committed to the European Union
- The Merger Process: an SDP retrospect
- The Alliance: parties and leaders
- The Alliance: two-party cooperation in practice
- The merger debate in the SDP 1981-87
- Tentative feelers: the Liberal Party’s response to the emergence of the Green Party
- What did the SDP bequeath to the Liberal Democrats?
- Be careful what you wish for
- Letters to the Editor
- Liberal leaderships
- Architect of political realism
- The two Davids: Owen versus Steel
- Letters to the Editor
- Interview with David Steel
- It’s Boy David
- Steel and Wainwright papers
- The Two Davids
Events (subject)
The following event had David Steel as their subject or discussed them in some way
- The legacy of Roy Jenkins
- The 1979 General Election
- The strange birth of Liberal England
- Working with Others: the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-78
Events (speaker)
David Steel was a featured speaker at the following events:
Subjects (author)
David Steel is the author of the following journal articles:
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- From liberal to authoritarian
- Jeremy’s story
- Jo Grimond 1913-1993
- Richard Holme remembered
- Last of the Gang…
- Abortion reform 1967
Subjects (author)
David Steel is the author of the following journal articles:
- David Steel: forming the Alliance, Llandudno, 1981
- Joint Statement on the Lib-Lab Pact: Steel and Callaghan