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.
- Radical Liberals and Liberal politics, 1906-c.1924
- Elite migration from the Liberal Party to the Labour Party, 1917-24, and the interaction with popular politics through the Union of Democratic Control
- The Liberal Party of Stoke-on-Trent and parliamentary elections, 1862-80: a case study in Liberal- labour relations
- The development of the Liberal Party in England, with special reference to the north-west, 1886- 1900
- The education question and Liberal politics in N.E. England, 1868-1910
- The Liberal middle class and politics in three provincial towns: Newcastle, Bristol, York
- The impact of Liberal welfare reforms in Southampton, 1906-14
- Conservatives, Liberals and Labour in Yorkshire, 1918-29
- Aspects of Sheffield Liberalism, 1849-86
- Bradford: radical city in the Liberal age
- The North of England Newspaper Company, 1903-1939: the declining political importance of a Liberal newspaper company
- Liberal and Labour politics in two Northumberland mining constituencies, 1885-1924
- The social and political development of Keighley, with special reference to the response of the Liberal Party to the rise of Labour, 1885-1914
- The Liberal Press and the rise of Labour: a study, with particular reference to Leeds and Bradford, 1850-1895
- Chartism and liberalism: popular politics in Leicestershire, 1842-74
- Popular liberalism in the English counties, 1885-1906
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- The New Liberalism and the challenge of Labour in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1885-1914, with special reference to Huddersfield
- The Liberal Party in W.Yorkshire, 1885-95
- The Liberal Party in Cornwall, 1918-39
- The Liberal Party in S.W. England, 1929-59