Leaders
Liberal Democrat leadership
Comparative table of leadership performance updated to 2017.
Old heroes for a new leader
Vince Cable explains why Roy Jenkins is his political hero.
Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott
John Preston, A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment (Viking, 2016).
Asquith’s obsession
Stefan Buczacki, My Darling Mr Asquith: The extraordinary life and times of Venetia Stanley (Cato & Clarke 2016)
Saint or devil?
Ian Cawood and Chris Upton (eds.), Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
‘Jeremy is innocent’: the life and times of Jeremy and Marion Thorpe
Liberal Democrat History Group meeting, held at the National Liberal Club on 6 February 2017, with Ronald Porter; chair: Michael Steed.
Churchill’s attitude to Ireland
Review of Paul Bew, Churchill and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Churchill and Lloyd George: Liberal authors on the First World War?
An analysis of Winston Churchill’s and David Lloyd George’s volumes on the First World War.
The Leadership of Charles Kennedy
Under Charles Kennedy’s leadership, from 1999 to 2006, the Liberal Democrats won a record number of seats in the Commons – but in January 2006 he was forced to resign by the party’s MPs. When he died, in August 2015, he was mourned deeply by the party he once led. This meeting will assess Kennedy’s achievements…