Elections
The 2010 election in historical perspective
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group conference fringe meeting held at Liverpool, 19 September 2010, with John Curtice, Denis Kavanagh and James Gurling; chair: Tony Little.
Liberals and the 1945 election (2)
Review of Peter Joyce, The Liberal Party and the 1945 General Election (Liberal Democrat History Group, Sept. 1995).
Elections 2007
Analysis of the outcomes of the local, Scottish and Welsh elections of May 2007. What do they mean for the Liberal Democrats?
Hold on, hold out; we are coming
Violet Bonham Carter’s speech after the 1920 Paisley by-election.
Value for money
The story of novelist Anthony Trollope’s campaign for Beverley in Yorkshire in 1868.
Hastings in 1900
The ‘khaki election’ of 1900 saw the Liberals performing poorly. This article examines one seat they gained from the Conservatives.
The 2001 election
Examination of the Liberal Democrat performance in the election of 7 June 2001, with lessons for the party’s future strategy.
Report: 1906 remembered
Scottish Liberal Club lecture, with Willis Pickard.
Election 2010 in historical perspective
The 2010 election must rank as one of the strangest in the history of the Liberal Democrats or its predecessor parties. Britains first-ever television debates saw the party catapulted into the front rank of news coverage. Yet after successive opinion polls regularly showed the Lib Dems in at least second place, the result was a…