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.
- War, reconstruction and the Fisher Act of 1918
Supervisor – Dr. P. Searby
- John Stuart Mill, George Jacob Holyoake and the ‘social question’: themes of continuity in mid 19th-century radicalism and socialism
Supervisor – Dr. Gareth Stedman Jones
- John Stuart Mill and male support for the Victorian women’s movement
Supervisor – Professor John W. Burrow
- Sir Jerom Murch: case study of a Unitarian liberal and his impact on the Bath community, 1833-95
Supervisor – Dr. David Brooke
- Monmouthshire and the Education Act, 1902: the ‘Welsh revolt’ of 1902-5, a study in conflict between national and local government in the field of education
- The constitutional thought of Winston Churchill, 1906-29
Supervisor – Dr. David J. Reynolds
- John Maynard Keynes and international relations: idealism, economic paths to war and peace, and post-war reconstruction
- The political career of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of Portland, 1738-1809
Supervisor – Professor Peter D.G. Thomas
- Radicalism and reform in Burnley, 1842-70
Supervisor – Dr. Iorwerth J. Prothero
- Real Liberals and Conservatives in the City of London, 1848-86
Supervisors – Mr. A. William Purdue and Mr. John M. Golby
- The National Reform Union and the Reform League: a comparative analysis
Supervisor – Dr. David Nicholls
- Jo Grimond’s leadership of the Liberal party
Supervisor – Professor Ben Pimlott
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1867-94: ‘an excellent guerrilla partisan’?
- Reginald McKenna as chancellor of the exchequer
Supervisor – Professor Hew F.A. Strachan
- Manchester Liberalism, 1918-29
Supervisor – Dr. Peter C. Lowe
- The radicalism of Joseph Chamberlain: his ideas and actions in the context of Birmingham in the 1870s
Supervisor – Dr. Carl S.A. Chinn
- The transformation of urban Liberalism: Liberal politics in Leicester and Manchester, 1885-95
Supervisor – Dr. Peter C. Lowe
- Herbert Gladstone, Ireland and radicalism
Supervisor – Dr. Allen J. Warren
- The British general election of 1929
Supervisor – Professor Peter F. Clarke
- The writings and political activities of Slingsby Bethel, 1617-97
Supervisor – Dr. Jonathan H. Scott