A ‘sincere, thorough and hearty Liberal’?
Biography of Jabez Balfour, 1843-1916.
Articles from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Biography of Jabez Balfour, 1843-1916.
In November 2000 Paddy Ashdown published the first volume of his diaries. This article comprises two interviews with him on his period as leader.
Examination of the part played by the renegade Conservatives – the Peelites – in the creation of the Liberal Party.
The political life and career of Liberal MP James Myles Hogge (1873-1928).
Examination of the crisis in the Liberal Party that was provoked by the Anglo-Boer War.
The ‘khaki election’ of 1900 saw the Liberals performing poorly. This article examines one seat they gained from the Conservatives.
The importance of the Liberal press in the politics of the Second Boer War.
The life and career of David Davies, the first Baron Davies of Llandinam (1880-1944).
How did the Liberal Party come to adopt a strategy of community politics in 1970? This article traces the origins of the concept from the New, or Social, Liberalism of Thomas Hill Green, through Jo Grimond’s leadership of the Liberal Party, to the counter-culture of the 1960s.
Assessment of the arguments over progressive unity in the 1930s, and Liberal and Labour responses.
The maverick career of the radical Liberal MP, Tom Horabin (1896-1956).
In a lecture delivered at Hawarden, and in a shortened version to the LDHG meeting in July 1998, Conrad Russell outlines the perennial themes in the approach of Liberals and Liberal Democrats.
Introduction to this special issue of the Newsletter.
British entry into the war offered the first test of Liberal values and of the calibre of Prime Minister Asquith. Examination of the events surrounding the declaration of war on 4 August 1914.
The rivalry between Asquith and Lloyd George grew out of the Great War. This article argues that the points of similarity between the two were at least as important as their differences.
Liberal ministers had to deal with more than the Great War during the period 1914-18. Examination of the Liberal record on the Irish Question during this critical period.
The Great War laid many of the foundations for Labour’s supplanting of the Liberals in the subsequent decade. Analysis of the relationship between the two parties during the war.
Liberalism’s final test stemming from the Great War was its attitude towards peace. Richard S. Grayson finds the party’s record wanting.
Was the Liberal Party fatally wounded by the war because liberalism proved incapable of coping with the strains of a major modern conflict? Professor Chris Wrigley questions the accepted view.
How many people know that the first British recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize was a Liberal MP? This article charts the political career of William Randal Cremer (1828-1908).