Party organisation – Journal of Liberal History

Journal articles (22)
Events (1)
Research in progress (1)

Journal articles

‘Like the early Christians in Rome’

Have Liberal Lords been so isolated and powerless?; by Matt Cole

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Bertha Bowness Fischer

‘One of the most effective and most welcome workers.’ An examination of the career of the first female Liberal political agent.

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Birmingham, the ‘Caucus’ and the 1868 general election

An examination of the emergence and impact of the Birmingham Liberal ‘caucus’.

105 Cawood Birmingham Caucus 1868 general election

Welsh Liberal Party 1966–70

New beginnings and the challenge of Plaid Cymru.

103 Alderton Welsh Liberal Party 1966-70

Letter to the Editor

Liberal Party Council (John Smithson).

Agents at work

Type: Review

Review of Kathryn Rix, Parties, Agents and Electoral Culture in England 1880–1910 (Boydell Press, 2016).

96 Review Hawkins Rix Parties Agents and Electoral Culture

Letters to the Editor

The 1915 general election (Graem Peters, Peter Rowland); Chris Rennard interview (Barry Standen, Roger Jenking).

The New Orbits Group, 1958 – c.1962

A look at the purpose and achievements of the New Orbits Group.

95 Smith The New Orbits Group

Cambridge University Liberal Club, 1886–1916

A study in early university political organisation.

91 Thevoz Cambridge University Liberal Club

Party colours

It wasn’t always orange or yellow…

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Party agents 1880-1914

The impact of the professional agent on electioneering and political organisation in the decades after the Third Reform Act.

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The Liberal Democrats and the functions of policy

Exploration of the different roles played by policy and policy-making within the party.

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The Liberal Democrat approach to campaigning

Examination of the evolution of the party’s campaigning techniques and structures.

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Liberal roots

The Liberal Party in a West Yorkshire constituency, 1920s-1970s.

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Organiser par excellence

The career of William Gladstone’s youngest son, Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930).

51 Iles Herbert Gladstone biography

The Liberal electoral agent in the post-Reform-Act era

An analysis of the activities of the Liberal electoral agents in the period after the Great Reform Act.

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Review: How the Liberal Party fared 1939-45

Type: Review

Review of Andrew Thorpe, Parties at War: Political Organisation in Second World War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2009).

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Hidden workers of the party

The professional Liberal agents, 1885-1910.

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Report: from Midlothian to direct mail

Parliamentary and political campaigning in the 19th and 20th centuries

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Liberal Party membership

Liberal Party membership systems pre-merger.

32 Ingham Liberal Party membership

Aspects of organisational modernisation in political parties: the case of the SDP

Organisational innovations introduced by the SDP.

39 Seelbach Organisational Modernisation

At the heart of the party

Biography of Raymond Jones (1883-1948), constituency organiser, election agent and parliamentary candidate.

46 Tillotson Hunter Raymond Jones

Events

Liberals in local government 1967 – 2017

Sunday 17th September 2017 / 07:45 PM

Bayview 2, Bournemouth International Centre

The Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors (ALDC) was founded, as the Association of Liberal Councillors, fifty years ago. At this meeting, organised in conjunction with ALDC, we celebrate its 50th anniversary and discuss the role of Liberals and Liberal Democrats in local government. What has the party achieved in local government? To what extent has it taken a distinctively liberal approach?

Speakers: Cllr Sara Bedford (Leader, Three Rivers District Council), Cllr Ruth Dombey (Leader, Sutton Council), Lord Tony Greaves (long-serving councillor, Pendle Borough Council), Cllr Richard Kemp (Leader, Liberal Democrats on Liverpool City Council), Baroness Kath Pinnock (Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, former Leader of Kirklees Council) and Matt Cole (University of Birmingham). Chair: Lord Andrew Stunell (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Communities and Local Government, 2010–12).

This meeting is a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth; a conference pass will be required for access.

Research in progress

National Liberal Federation minute books

I am trying to trace the whereabouts of the minute books of the National Liberal Federation, as operated in the later nineteenth century, from 1877. Bristol University’s Special Collections archive holds the proceedings of the NLF’s Council, but a 1962 article by the late Barry McGill on Liberal organisation makes reference to several minute books […]