Duncan Brack
Liberal Democrat History Group AGM 2024
The Annual General Meeting of the Liberal Democrat History Group will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 29 January. All subscribers to the Journal of Liberal History are welcome to participate. The meeting will take place in-person, at the Violet Bonham Carter Room, National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE. It will also be possible…
Liberal Democrat History Group AGM 2023
The Annual General Meeting of the Liberal Democrat History Group will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 30 January. All subscribers to the Journal of Liberal History are welcome to participate. The meeting will take place in-person, at the Violet Bonham Carter Room, National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE. It will also…
Lord Tony Greaves (27 July 1942 – 23 March 2021)
by Michael Meadowcroft Tony Greaves never seemed to age. He had a firm belief that politics was capable of transforming society, and his consistent advocacy of local campaigning, community politics and the necessity for both to be anchored in a radical Liberalism had hardly changed from his Young Liberal days. His election to the Lancashire…
Remembering Shirley Williams
We were saddened to hear of the death of Shirley Williams on 12 April 2021. Shirley played a key role in the foundation of the SDP and of the Liberal Democrats, led the Liberal Democrats in the Lords from 2001 to 2004, and remained active in the Lords and the party until her retirement in…
Tony Greaves: Why I am A Liberal Democrat
Tony Greaves (Lord Greaves) died on 23 March 2021. He was a Liberal legend. The Liberal Party, and the Liberal Democrats, owe an enormous amount to his commitment and drive, in local campaigning, in the House of Lords, and in the development of the party’s policy and ideology. We will publish a full appreciation of…
Liberal Democrat History Group AGM 2021
The Annual General Meeting of the Liberal Democrat History Group will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 1 February. All subscribers to the Journal of Liberal History are welcome to participate. The meeting will take via Zoom, and you will need to register in advance: click here to register. This is the same link we’re…
Old heroes for a new leader
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Lloyd George and Spanish Flu: In Sickness and in Health
By James Moore The most treasured possessions inherited from my grandfather are undoubtedly two blue volumes that have been with me for most of my life, The War Memoirs of David Lloyd George. Lloyd George was my grandfather’s political hero and so he became mine too. As a teenager I read the Memoirs avidly and they were probably…
How Liberal Democrats secured legislation for equal marriage
To mark LGBT+ History month – February – we remember one of the Liberal Democrat achievements in the coalition government of 2010-15: equal marriage. We reprint here our review (by Baroness Liz Barker) of Liberal Democrat minister Lynne Featherstone’s book, Equal Ever After: The Fight for Same Sex Marriage – and How I Made it…