Leaders
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Report: Leaders good and bad
Report of History Group meeting of February 2000, on Liberal, SDP and Liberal Democrat leaders, with Robert Maclennan MP and Professor Peter Clarke.
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Leaders and leadership
Interview with Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party 1967-76.
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Lessons for leaders
Considers the options open to Charles Kennedy and draws some lessons from the historical record.
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‘A sad business’
Examination of Clement Davies’ resignation from the leadership in 1956.
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The 1988 leadership campaign
Following this year’s leadership election for the Liberal Democrats, Harriet Smith looks back to the party’s first such election.
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The last Liberal landlord
Review of Gerard J. De Groot, Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair (Hurst & Co.,1993).
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Gladstone and books
The Gladstone Lecture, given at St Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, on 8 July 1998, in the centenary year of Gladstone’s death.
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Old heroes for a new leader
Liberal Democrat leadership candidates describe their historical inspirations.
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Liberal leaderships
As the Liberal Democrats enter their second leadership contest, Robert Ingham looks at contests of the past.