Sefton and Derby: Politics, principle and opportunity
Hugh Gault traces the political careers of two aristocratic neighbours in the late nineteenth century.
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Herbert Lewis and the South African war, 1899–1902
Those Liberals MPs who opposed the Boer War sometimes experienced uneasy relationships with their constituencies and local parties. Brendon Jones examines one particular case.
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The Liberal Democrat performance in the 2022 local elections
An analysis of where the Liberal Democrats gained council seats in May 2022
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Solving the ‘problem’ of the twentieth century
Lord Davies of Llandinam’s internationalist alternative to appeasement
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Cromwell’s statue and the fall of the Liberal government in 1895
An early political controversy about statues, and its link to the fall of Rosebery’s government
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John Stuart Mill: A neo-Athenian republican
The influence of the republic of classical Athens on Mill’s thought.
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A Liberal for all seasons?
The political career of Percy Alport Molteno, 1861–1937 (Part 2: 1914–37)
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The American Civil War and the British women’s movement
How British women anti-slavery campaigners reacted to the war.
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Commerce, conscience and constitutions
An examination of the motives of two Liberals who supported the Confederacy.
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‘An undoubted error, the most singular and palpable’
Gladstone and the American Civil War.
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John Stuart Mill, moral outrage and the American Civil War
Mill’s contribution to developing Liberal support for the North.
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‘The voice of reason’
John Bright and his relationship with the Union during the American Civil War.
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Letting someone else have your way
The Palmerston Ministry’s foreign policy and the American Civil War.
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The Liberal Party and the American Civil War
Introduction to this special issue of the Journal of Liberal History
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A Liberal for All Seasons?
An examination of the political career of Percy Alport Molteno, 1861–1937 (Part 1: 1861–1914).
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Lloyd George and the Versailles Treaty
An analysis of Lloyd George’s role in the Paris peace conference.
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The Black Book and the reform of public life in early nineteenth-century Britain
An exposé of corruption which contributed to parliamentary reform, the roots of Liberalism and modern definitions of corruption and standards in public life.
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The Liberal rise in Richmond
The story of how the Liberals grew their local government strength in Richmond in the 1960s and 1970s; with an introduction setting the context.
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Lloyd George, the Liberal Summer Schools and electoral politics in the 1920s
An examination of the role the Liberal Summer Schools played in the electoral record of the Liberal Party in the 1920s.
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Bertha Bowness Fischer
‘One of the most effective and most welcome workers.’ An examination of the career of the first female Liberal political agent.
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