The farm workers champion
Biography of one of the first working men to be elected to Parliament, Joseph Arch (1826-1919).
Articles from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Biography of one of the first working men to be elected to Parliament, Joseph Arch (1826-1919).
Analysis of the municipal record of the leader of Bath’s Victorian Liberals.
The story of novelist Anthony Trollope’s campaign for Beverley in Yorkshire in 1868.
Violet Bonham Carter’s speech after the 1920 Paisley by-election.
The First World War tore the Liberal Party apart. David Dutton looks at how one Liberal MP lived through the conflict.
Biography of the leading Liberal lawyer Norman Birkett (1883-1962).
The story of the influence of Scottish young Liberals before and after the Great War.
Interview with John Pardoe, Liberal MP for North Cornwall, 1966-79.
The life and political career of the first woman Liberal MP, Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955).
A speech made by Richard Cobden in March 1845, near the climax of the campaign to abolish the Corn Laws.
A re-examination of the reopening by Lloyd George in September 1912 of the village institute at his native Llanystumdwy, when the proceedings were blighted by constant suffragette interruptions.
Analysis of what was hailed, in the early years of the twentieth century, as the radical alternative to collectivism and even the New Liberalism.
Speech by Thomas Babington Macaulay on Jewish Disabilities (House of Commons, 17 April 1833).
The life of Ivor Davies (1915-1986), who would have been the Liberal candidate at the Oxford by-election in 1938.
The life and political career of the contentious, individualistic, right-wing Liberal MP for Cardiganshire from 1945 until 1966, Captain E. Roderic Bowen MP (1913-2001).
Introduction to special issue on Liberals and Ireland.
1782 – 1801: the critical period in Irish and British history during which many of the seeds of the present troubles were sown.
1829 – 1852: despite the Whig leader Lord John Russell’s efforts to work for justice to Ireland, his policies ended mainly in failure.
1868 -1974: analysis of Gladstone’s domination of both the Liberal Party and Ireland in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
1880 – 1886: Gladstone’s efforts to achieve Home Rule for Ireland.