The Orange Book revisited
Review of ‘Eight Years Since The Orange Book: Have the Liberal Democrats “reclaimed” Liberalism?’ (Economic Affairs 32:2, June 2012).
Review
Reviews from the Journal of Liberal Democrat History.
Gladstone and Ireland
Review of Mary E. Daly and Theordore Hoppen (eds.), Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (Four Courts Press, 2011).
‘Remains to be seen’
Review of Chris Bowers, Nick Clegg: The Biography (Biteback, 2011; paperback edition, 2012) and Jasper Gerard, The Clegg Coup (Gibson Square, 2011).
Scottish Liberal
Review of Willis Pickard, The Member for Scotland: A Life of Duncan McLaren (John Donald, 2011).
Hattersley on Lloyd George
Review of Roy Hattersley, The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George (Little, Brown, 2010).
Lloyd George and appeasement
Review of Stella Rudman, Lloyd George and the Appeasement of Germany 1919-1945 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).
The Library knows Lloyd George
Review of J. Graham Jones, Lloyd George Papers at the National Library of Wales and Other Repositories (National Library of Wales, 2001).
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What might have been
Review of Phillip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin (ed.), Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical Methodological and Psychological Perspectives (Princeton University Press, 1996).
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A life-long espousal of Liberal values
Review of Mark Pottle (ed.), Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1946 – 1969 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000).
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A Liberal partition
Review of Thomas Hennessey, Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition (Routledge, 1998).
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The party leader who never was
Review of Mark Pottle (ed.), Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1914-1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998).
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A man of government
Review of Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 (Macmillan, 2000).
Thirty Years of Liberator
Review of, Thirty Years of Liberator.
Audacious – but fundamentally flawed
Review of Paddy Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries, Volume 1: 1988-1997 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000).
250 High Streets later…
Review of Mark D’Arcy & Rory Maclean, Nightmare! The Race to Become London’s Mayor (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
New leader, new book
Review of Charles Kennedy, The Future of Politics (HarperCollins, 2000).
More mirage than vision
Review of Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (University of Exeter Press, 2000).
Unremembered – but not forgotten
Review of G. W. Keeton James, A Liberal Attorney-General; Being the Life of Lord Robson of Jesmond, 1852-1918, with an Account of the Office of Attorney-General, etc. (Nisbet & Co, 1949).
I blame Sir Edward Grey
Review of John Charmley, Splendid Isolation? Britain and the Balance of Power 1874-1914 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999).
Last of the Gang…
Review of Bill Rodgers, Fourth Among Equals (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).