Leaders
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Views of Peel
Review of Richard A. Gaunt, Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy (I. B. Tauris, 2010).
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Jo Grimond 1913-1993
David Steel’s commemoration lecture, given at Firth Kirk, Finstown, Orkney, 18 May 2013.
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David Lloyd George: the legacy
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference, 9 March 2013, with Kenneth O. Morgan and David Howarth; chair: Celia, Baroness Thomas.
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Jo Grimond – the legacy
Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967, holds a particularly affectionate place in the collective memory of the Liberal Democrats. His charisma, charm, good looks, political courage, intellect and inherent liberalism inspired many to join the Liberal Party in the late 1950s and 1960s and gained him a national reputation as…
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Hattersley on Lloyd George
Review of Roy Hattersley, The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George (Little, Brown, 2010).
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Lloyd George and leadership
The influences on Lloyd George of Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln.
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David Lloyd George 1863-1945
Introduction to this special issue on Lloyd George.
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Viscount Palmerston (Henry John Temple), 1784-1865
If we date the modern Liberal Party from the 1859 meeting in Willis’ Tea Rooms, we must accord Palmerston the honour of being the first Liberal Prime Minister, though he would have thought himself the Queen’s minister and the nation’s leader rather than a party’s. In truth, he was more the last of the old…
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Earl of Aberdeen (George Hamilton-Gordon), 1784-1860
Lord Aberdeen was the Prime Minister who first brought together the coalition of Whigs, Peelites and Radicals which later became the Liberal Party. He is perhaps best known for being premier at the time of the Crimean War. After his death several copies of a text were found which seemed to indicate that he felt…