Letters to the Editor: Issue 65
Liberals in Schism – 1 (Dr Peter Hatton); Liberals in Schism – 2 (Paul Hunt); Campbell-Bannerman (Graham Lippiatt); The Mills and their world (Dr Alexander (Sandy) Waugh); Richard Holme (Trevor Jones); Correction.
Article
Articles from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Celebrating 1859: Party, Patriotism and Liberal Values
On 6 June 1859, 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met at Willis’s Rooms in King Street, St. James’s. They gathered to agree on a strategy to oust Lord Derby’s Conservative government from office. Angus Hawkins analyses the significance of this key event in Liberal history.
Using Wikipedia to Learn about Liberal History
Exploring the possibilities – and limitations – of using Wikipedia as a tool for researching Liberal history.
Liberal History Quiz 2009 – Questions
This year’s Liberal history quiz attracted a fair amount of attention at the History Group’s exhibition stand at the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth in September. Here we reprint the questions.
A Liberal without a Home: the Later Career of Leslie Hore-Belisha
In the simplistic and sometimes pernicious categorisations which have so often been applied to the political personalities of the 1930s – appeasers and anti-appeasers, a majority of dupes and a minority of the far-sighted, the decade’s Guilty Men and its isolated voices in the wilderness – Leslie Hore-Belisha has strong claims to be listed among […]
Liberal History Quiz 2009 – Answers
The answers to this year’s Liberal history quiz at the History Group’s exhibition stand at the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth in September.
Letters to the Editor: issue 66
The 1906 election, and Sir Charles Grey MP (Sandy S. Waugh); Margaret Wintringham (Graem Peters); Albert McElroy (Graham Lippiatt)
Liberal History News: Issue 66
Gladstone bicentenary; Gladstone and Bulgaria; Gladstone bicentenary event in Edinburgh; What would Gladstone think?; New on the History Group website
Violet and Clem
Examination of the relationship between Liberal leader Clement Davies and Lady Violet Bonham Carter.
Helen Suzman: An Appreciation
Personal recollection of the life of South Africa’s first anti-apartheid MP.
Liberals and left
Introduction to this special issue of the Journal.
Out of Chartism, into Liberalism?
Popular radicals and the Liberal Party in mid-Victorian Britain.
The Liberal Party and the New Liberalism
Examination of the relationship between the New Liberalism and the Liberal Party in the period around the Liberal victory of 1906.
Thomas Paine
What was the impact of Thomas Paine on Liberalism and liberal thought?
The flight from the Liberal Party
Liberals who joined the Labour Party, 1914-31.
George Jacob Holyoake
Examination of how the life of Holyoake exemplified the development of popular Liberalism.
A retreat from the left?
The Liberal Party and Labour, 1945-55.
Radical Reform Group
Examination of the group’s formation, history and publications.
‘An out-of-date word’
Jo Grimond and the left.
New Radicalism
… and the Liberal Democat Whig tendency.