England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

Liberal thought and thinkers

  • Jeremy Bentham, 1745-1832

    Jeremy Bentham, the English moral philosopher, jurist, social reformer, political economist and founding father of modern utilitarianism was born in London on 15 February 1748. His ambitious father, also a lawyer, had plans for young Jeremy to become Lord Chancellor of England, not only making his name but also his fortune in the process. Despite…

  • T. H. Green: Forgotten Liberal?

    Arguments for T. H. Green as the greatest British Liberal.

  • Think Liberal

    Review of Duncan Brack and Ed Randall (eds.), Dictionary of Liberal Thought (Politico’s Publishing, 2007).

  • Think Liberal: The ‘Dictionary of Liberal Thought’

    Report of History Group meeting, March 2007 (Harrogate), with David Howarth MP and Michael Meadowcroft.

  • Reformulating Liberalism

    Review of L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism and Other Writings, edited by James Meadowcroft (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

  • Philosopher of freedom

    Wilhelm von Humboldt and early German Liberalism.

  • The origins of community politics

    How did the Liberal Party come to adopt a strategy of community politics in 1970? This article traces the origins of the concept from the New, or Social, Liberalism of Thomas Hill Green, through Jo Grimond’s leadership of the Liberal Party, to the counter-culture of the 1960s.

  • The development of the New Liberalism as a philosophy of transition

    The philosophy that underpinned the Liberal Party’s revival in the 1906 election.

  • The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism

    Examination of the role of a little-known radical group in the 1890s in the evolution of the Liberal and Labour parties.