Alliance days
Vignettes of the days of elation and experiment, frustration and failure.
Articles from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Vignettes of the days of elation and experiment, frustration and failure.
The history of the SDP-Liberal relationship, from beginnings to alliance to merger.
What was the ideological inheritance of the Social Democratic Party? And what did it bequeath to the Liberal Democrats?
Introduction to this special issue of the Journal.
The story of the Liberal who helped ensure that British citizens today are not compelled to carry identity cards.
The role of foreign policy issues in the growth of the Young Liberals in the 1960s and ’70s.
After 300 years, Scotland is to have a Parliament again. This article examines the role of Jo Grimond in the story of Scottish devolution.
1997 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Liberal International. This article traces the events of 1947.
Labour made a determined effort to absorb the Liberal vote when the party seemed to be in terminal decline after 1945.
A critical look at the Liberal Democrats’ performance in the 1997 election.
The 1945 election was a stunning Labour victory, but what did it mean for the Liberal Party?
The first phase of the Liberal postwar revival came to an end with the resignation of Jo Grimond as leader. Tim Beaumont recalls the election of his successor.
The Labour Party’s performance in the 1997 general election took even its most optimistic supporters by surprise. How does the result look when compared with previous election landslides? And what might happen now?
Young Liberals provided the Liberal Party with activists, candidates and radical ideas. This article examines the YL record of the early 1970s.
The Sutton & Cheam by-election was won for the Liberal Party in December 1972. Jennifer Tankard interviews the victor, Graham (now Lord) Tope.
Memories of the battles over one of the key pieces of social reform legislation of the 1960s.
Analysis of the importance of the by-election result for the Liberal Party.
The stunning by-election victory of Orpington in 1962 was the high point of the first Liberal revival. Eric Lubbock (now Lord Avebury) was the candidate.
‘The personification and the hope of postwar Liberalism.’ The record of Jo Grimond.
Memories of William Beveridge, social scientist and Liberal, whose ideas shaped British postwar politics.