In this issue: Religion and politics in the Edwardian era (Roger Ottewill); The Liberal Party and the trade unions in the 1870s (Tim Hughes); Asquith: friendship, love and betrayal (Alan Mumford); Meeting report: Election 2017 – a missed opportunity?, with Phil Cowley and James Gurling (Neil Stockley); Review – Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (Ed Randall); Review – Bell, The Labour Party in Opposition 1970–1974 (Michael Meadowcroft); Review – Lendvai, Orbán: Europe’s New Strongman (David Steel); Liberal archives in the Newcastle University Library special collections (Dr J. Graham Jones).