William Wallace
Baron Wallace of Saltaire
Date of birth: 12 March 1941
Date of death: 20 September 2024
Events (chair)
William Wallace chaired the following events on behalf of the Liberal Democrat History Group:
- The Great Reform Act of 1832: its legacy and influence on the Coalition’s reform agenda
- The strange birth of Liberal England
- ‘Taxes that will bring forth fruit’ – The centenary of the People’s Budget of 1909
- Yellow Book versus Orange Book: Is it time for a new New Liberalism?
- Defender of Liberties: Charles James Fox
- ‘The Fruits of the Liberty Tree’ – The Liberal Tradition in North America
- Catastrophe: The 2015 Election Campaign and its Outcome
- What’s left of Gladstonian Liberalism in the Liberal Democrats?
- The 1979 General Election
- Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme
- What Have the Liberals Ever Done For Us? Book Launch
Events (subject)
The following event had William Wallace as their subject or discussed them in some way
- Liberal Democrats in Europe, 21 years of success or failure?
- The Legacy of Jo Grimond – Remembering Jo
- Why didn’t the Liberal Party Die? The first Liberal revival, 1959-66
- Liberalism in the north
- Europe: The Liberal commitment
- The Liberal Party and the First World War
- Torrington ’58: Liberal survival and revival, 1945-79
- Red Guard versus Old Guard? The influence of the Young Liberal movement on the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 1970s a witness seminar
- Back from the dead: the Liberal Party in the 1950s
Subjects (author)
William Wallace is the author of the following journal articles:
- Liberal achievements
- A life well lived
- ‘His presence generated electricity’
- How the Liberal Party became committed to the European Union
- Liberal Democrats in coalition: Europe
- Managing the coalition
- Dissent over the airwaves
- Cromwell’s statue and the fall of the Liberal government in 1895
- The twisting path
- Liberalism and illiberalism