PhD theses
Theses presented for higher degrees at universities in the UK since 1901, under the titles Liberal Party, liberalism and the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Compiled for the Liberal Democrat History Group by Dr Richard S. Grayson, and Graham Lippiatt using the Institute of Historical Research database for Higher Degrees in the United Kingdom, Part I: Theses Completed.
- The formation of Liberal Party policy, 1885-92
- The Samuelites and the National Government: a study in Liberal survival, August 1931 – November 1933
- Gladstone’s Fourth Ministry, 1892-94: policies and personalities
- Ideas of the Liberal Party: perception, agendas, and liberal politics in the House of Commons, 1832-1852
Suprevisors – Dr. John Stevenson and Professor David S. Eastwood
- The role of the Liberal Unionist party in British politics, 1886-95
- Liberals and the Home Rule issue, November 1885 – July 1886: the leaders and the rank and file, with special reference to certain localities
- The origins and development of the National Liberal Federation to 1886
- University Liberals and the challenge of democracy, 1860-86
- The genesis and significance of the 1886 Home Rule split in the Liberal Party
- The Liberal Unionist Party until December 1887
- Gladstone, Irish nationalism and the Home Rule question, 1882-93, with particular reference to the Ulster problem
- Gladstone and whiggery: a study in Liberal leadership and politics, 1874-86
- Irish land reform and English Liberal politics, 1865-70
- Aspects of Liberal Unionist Party organisation, 1886-1895
- The formation of the Liberal Party, 1857-68
- The Irish policies of the second Gladstone government, 1880-85
- The Liberal Party and the House of Lords, 1880-1895
- The survival of the British Liberal Party, 1932-59
- The making of Liberal Party policy, 1945-80
- The Liberal Party in decline