England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

Notices

  • 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

    This is my excerpt

  • Lloyd George and Spanish Flu: In Sickness and in Health

    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…

  • New Year 2020 sale!

    PEACE, REFORM AND LIBERATION: NEW PRICE CUT FOR 2020! £15 off original price (£25) Written by academics and experts, drawing on the most recent research, Peace, Reform and Liberation is the most comprehensive and most up-to-date guide to the story of those who called themselves Liberals, what inspired them and what they achieved over the last 300 years…

  • Old Heroes for a New Leader: Lib Dem leadership candidates’ historical heroes

    As we have in each of the Liberal Democrat leadership elections other than the first one (which took place in 1988, before the History Group had been formed), in June the Liberal Democrat History Group asked the two candidates for the Liberal Democrat leadership to write a short article on their favourite historical figure or…

  • Liberal History: A concise history of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats – New! Ebook and audio versions now available

    350 years of party history in 32 pages The Liberal Democrat History Group’s booklet, Liberal History: A concise history of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats, is the essential introduction to Liberal history. Now available in print, Kindle and audio versions. Starting with the earliest stirrings of Liberal thought during the civil wars of the seventeenth…

  • Liberal Democrat History Group AGM, 28 January 2019

    The Annual General Meeting of the Liberal Democrat History Group will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 28 January 2019, in the Lady Violet Room, National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HE. The agenda, minutes of the 2018 meeting and chair’s report for the year 2018 are attached here. Print copies will be…

  • Paddy Ashdown 1941–2018

    Paddy Ashdown 1941–2018

    Paddy Ashdown, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988–99, passed away on 22 December 2018. As a tribute to his memory, we reprint here in full the chapter on his time as leader from our 2015 book, British Liberal Leaders. We hope this may help to explain to those readers who did not know him why…