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.
- Whig literary culture: poetry, politics and patronage, 1678-1714
- John Stuart Mill and freedom of expression
Supervisor – Professor Fred Rosen
- Edmund Burke and the constitutional crisis, 1778-84
Supervisor – Dr. Leslie G. Mitchell
- The strange death of British Liberalism: the Liberal summer schools’ movement and the making of the Yellow Book in the 1920s
Supervisor – Professor Ben J. Pimlott
- The grass-roots organization of the Liberal party, 1945-64
Supervisor – Dr. Michael W. Hart
- Electoral politics in Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1832-85
Supervisor – Mr. Alan J. Heesom
- The social and political activity of the Cadbury family: a study in manipulative capitalism
Supervisor – Professor Roy A. Lowe
- Labour’s attitudes to social reform, 1900-14
Supervisors – Professor Ian Levitt and Dr. Alan Pratt
- Seat-votes relationships in British general elections, 1955-97
- The strange death of Labour England: collective provision and social cohesion in Southwark, 1950-2000
Supervisor – Professor Avner Offer
- The prince of the Whigs: the life and career of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
Supervisor – Dr. Leslie G. Mitchell
- The working library of William Ewart Gladstone
Supervisor – Dr. Jon M. Lawrence
- Land, liberty and empire: Josiah C. Wedgwood and radical politics, 1905-24
Supervisor – Dr. Anthony C. Howe
- The political dynamics of N.E. Wales, with special reference to the Liberal party, 1918-35
Supervisors – Professor Duncan M. Tanner and Dr. William P. Griffith
- The Labour and Liberal parties in an area of Conservative ascendancy: the case of Gloucestershire
Supervisor – Mr. A. William Purdue
- The penal thought and practice of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, secretary of state for the Home Department, February 1910 to October 1911
- The ‘politick personality’: Edmund Burke’s political ideas and the Lockean inheritance
Supervisor – Professor Fred Rosen
- Shopkeepers and gentlemen: the liberal politics of early Victorian London.
Supervisor – Dr. Peter Mandler
- Inventing economic imperialism: British Liberals change their minds about capitalism and war
Supervisor – Professor Michael S. Freeden
- For women, for Wales and for Liberalism: women in Liberal politics in Wales c.1883-1914