Leaders
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The legacy of Roy Jenkins
NOTE: START TIME CHANGED TO 7.00pm Roy Jenkins is best remembered in Liberal Democrat circles as one of the ‘Gang of Four’ who established the Social Democratic Party, the SDP’s first leader, and then a staunch supporter of merger with the Liberal Party. But even as a Labour politician he had a liberal record. In…
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First biography of William George
Review of Peter Rowland, Lloyd George’s Tada – the one father he never knew! (PublishNation, 2014).
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Authoritative new biography of ‘the goat’
Review of Travis L. Crosby, The Unknown Lloyd George: a Statesman in Conflict (I. B. Tauris, 2014).
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Leading the Liberals
Review of Duncan Brack, Robert Ingham and Tony Little (eds.), British Liberal Leaders: Leaders of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats since 1828 (Biteback Publishing, 2015).
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Liberal leaders and leadership
Party leaders matter: they embody a party’s present, while also shaping its future. This is particularly important in the values-based Liberal tradition. A total of twenty-five individuals led the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats between Earl Grey’s assumption of the leadership of the Whig opposition in 1828 and Nick Clegg’s resignation in 2015. What did it take to…
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Lloyd George and Churchill as war leaders
A comparison of the two great British wartime leaders of the twentieth century.
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Writing about Charles
A review of Charles Kennedy’s obituaries and tributes.
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Old heroes for a new leader
The political heroes of Tim Farron and Norman Lamb.
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The Liberal–Tory coalition of 1915
Report of the History Group evening meeting, 26 January 2015, with Ian Packer and Nigel Keohane; chair: Raymond Asquith (Earl of Oxford and Asquith and great-grandson of Herbert Asquith).