‘Exchange goods, not bombs’
Free trade was one of the cornerstones of the Victorian Liberal Party. This article examines the Liberal record on trade from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the Uruguay Round.
Articles from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Free trade was one of the cornerstones of the Victorian Liberal Party. This article examines the Liberal record on trade from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the Uruguay Round.
John Stuart Mill, Jo Grimond, green economists and the Suez crisis, according to this Liberal Democrat History Group survey of formative influences on leading Liberal Democrat politicians.
Policy retrospective: Liberal education policy since the nineteenth century.
Examination of the relationship between Karl Marx and William Ewart Gladstone, between revolutionary Marxism and reformist Gladstonian Liberalism.
The Grand Old Man’s record.
What is Liberal Democracy? Part IV.
The survival and development of the Liberal Party in the post-war era.
What is Liberal Democracy? Part III.
What is Liberal Democracy about? Part II.
What is Liberal Democracy about? Part I.
The value of keeping political archives.
A welcome to the first edition of the Liberal Democrat History Group newsletter.
Short reading list on Liberal history.
Analysis of the article on The Conservative Collapse in the Fortnightly Review of 1 May 1880, published anonymously but written by Gladstone.
The impact of electoral reform in the nineteenth century on elections in Winchester.
How the Liberals’ near-miss in the Inverness by-election of 1954 proved a turning point in the party’s fortunes.
Biography of Sir Geoffrey Mander, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, 1929-45.
Analysis of Geoffrey Mander’s Wolverhampton seat.
Personal memoir of Tom Horabin MP.