Notices
Meeting report: The 1918 Coupon Election and its consequences
Evening meeting, 2 July 2018, with Alistair Cooke and Kenneth O. Morgan; chair: Claire Tyler Report by David Cloke Baroness Tyler opened the meeting by noting ironically that the period featured two ingredients that attendees had come to know and love: snap elections and Liberal–Conservative coalitions. Indeed, the parallels with and significance for our own…
Europe: the Liberal Commitment – special issue of the Journal of Liberal History
Opposition to Brexit has become of the defining characteristics of today’s Liberal Democrats. And probably everyone knows that the Liberal Democrats’ predecessors in the Liberal Party supported British entry to the European Community in the 1970s and before. But where does this commitment derive from? The latest Journal of Liberal History(issue 98, spring 2018) explores…
New booklet on Liberal Thinkers
New from the Liberal Democrat History Group Liberalism has been built on more than three centuries’ work of political thinkers and writers and the aspirations of countless human beings who have fought for freedom, democracy, the rule of law and open and tolerant societies. Liberal Thinkers, the History Group’s new booklet, is an accessible guide…
New booklets from the Liberal Democrat History Group
Just published: Mothers of Liberty: women who built British Liberalism. The new edition contains the stories of the women who shaped British Liberalism – including Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Taylor Mill, the suffragist leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the first woman Liberal MP Margaret Wintringham, Violet Bonham Carter, Megan Lloyd George, Nancy Seear, Shirley Williams and many…
Liberal history: introductory reading list
The Liberal Democrats draw on a rich heritage of liberal and social democratic traditions stretching back to the seventeenth century. This reading list provides a brief guide to some of the best histories of the party and its predecessors.
Concise history booklet updated to spring 2017
Just out from the Liberal Democrat History Group: Liberal History: A concise history of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats – 350 years of party history in 32 pages. Revised and updated to include the coalition and its impact and the 2015 election and its aftermath. The essential introduction to Liberal history, now updated to March 2017. Special…
Directory of election candidates 1945–2015 now available
The Liberal Democrat History Group’s website now features a major new resource for students of post-war Liberal history: a comprehensive directory of all election candidates at every Westminster election from 1945 to 2015. This is the first comprehensive biographical index to appear of the individuals who have contested a UK parliamentary election under the designation…
Liberal leaders booklets clearance sale
For a limited period, we are cutting the price of the two booklets below by 50 per cent – with a further 20 per cent reduction for subscribers to the Journal of Liberal History. Liberal Leaders of the Nineteenth Century This forty-page booklet contains concise biographies of every Liberal leader from the Great Reform Act…
Liberal Democrat History Group Christmas / New Year sale
As a special offer over the holiday season (until 6 January 2017) we are making our two short booklets on Liberal leaders available for 50% off: Liberal Leaders of the Nineteenth Century This forty-page booklet contains concise biographies of every Liberal leader from the Great Reform Act to the end of the nineteenth century –…