Elections
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On this day 6-12-1923
The election had been brought about with the announcement by the new Conservative Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, of a move to protection. The news precipitated a rush to unify the two factions of the Liberal Party and an uneasy truce was agreed in which Lloyd George agreed to support Asquith as leader of a reunified…
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Party agents 1880-1914
The impact of the professional agent on electioneering and political organisation in the decades after the Third Reform Act.
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Who votes for the Liberal Democrats?
Examination of the sources of electoral support for the Liberal Democrats.
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Decline and fall: the Liberal Party and the elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924
Report of a Liberal Democrat History Group meeting, February 2014, with Michael Steed, Professor Pat Thane and Dr Julie Smith.
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Decline and Fall: the Liberal Party and the general elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924
For the Liberal Party, the three general elections of 1922,1923 and 1924 represented a terrible journey from postwar disunity to reunion, and near return to government to dramatic and prolonged decline. Arguably, this was the key period which relegated the Liberals to the third-party status from which they have still never escaped. The Liberal Democrat…
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2010 analysed
Review of Robert Worcester and Roger Mortimore, Explaining Cameron’s Coalition (Biteback Publishing, 2011).
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A forgotten Liberal-Conservative alliance
The Constitutionalists and the 1924 election – a new party or a worthless coupon?
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250 High Streets later…
Review of Mark D’Arcy & Rory Maclean, Nightmare! The Race to Become London’s Mayor (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
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Cartoons galore
Review of Alan Mumford: Drawn at the Hustings: General elections 1722-1935 in caricature and cartoon (Burke’s Peerage and Gentry, 2011).