Elections
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.
Letters to the Editor: Issue 69
James Bryce (Sandy S. Waugh); Liberals and the left (Peter Hatton); The 2010 election: missed opportunity (Martin Pugh); The Gower primary of 1905 (Kenneth O. Morgan); Samuel Morton Peto and his relatives (Sandy S. Waugh).
The 1910 and 2010 elections
Continuity and change in election campaigning.
The 1906 landslide: the legacy
Introduction to this special issue of the Journal, on the legacy of the 1906 Liberal government.
Honiton, Dumfriesshire and the Lloyd George Fund
The use of the Lloyd George Fund in two constituencies in the 1929 election.
The 1923 general election
The 1923 election was sparked in October of that year, when the Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin announced that his government would be seeking a mandate to introduce tariff protection, in order to tackle growing levels of unemployment.
1974 Remembered
The two elections of 1974 formed a peak of the second post-war Liberal revival, giving the party six million votes but no more than fourteen MPs. Participants in the campaigns – including Tim Beaumont, Viv Bingham, Adrian Slade, Sir Cyril Smith, Paul Tyler MP and Richard Wainwright – shared their recollections of the elections.
Liberal civil war: Denbigh, Oldham and the 1935 election
The story of two constituencies where Liberals and Liberal Nationals fought each other at the 1935 general election.
The development of the New Liberalism as a philosophy of transition
The philosophy that underpinned the Liberal Party’s revival in the 1906 election.