Liberal thought and thinkers
John and Barbara Hammond, 1872-1949 and 1873-1961
John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond (known as Lawrence) was born in 1872, the son of the Vicar of Drighlington in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Lucy Barbara Bradby (known as Barbara) was born in 1873, the daughter of the headmaster of Haileybury College. Married in 1901, the Hammonds had no children. They became pioneer social…
Thomas Paine
What was the impact of Thomas Paine on Liberalism and liberal thought?
Think Liberal
Review of Duncan Brack and Ed Randall (eds.), Dictionary of Liberal Thought (Politico’s Publishing, 2007).
Reformulating Liberalism
Review of L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism and Other Writings, edited by James Meadowcroft (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
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.
Community politics
Community Politics describes a particular style of locally organised campaigning on specifically local issues pioneered by the Liberal Party in the 1950s and 1960s and now practised by Liberal Democrat activists throughout the UK.
Graham Wallas, 1858-1932
Graham Wallas was born in Sunderland on 31 May 1858, the son of an Evangelical clergyman of the Church of England who later became Rector of Shobrooke in Devon, where the young Wallas was brought up. He went to public school at Shrewsbury and thence to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read Greats. Wallas…
Ralf Dahrendorf (Lord Dahrendorf), 1929-2009
Writing in 1997, Ralf Dahrendorf referred to his favourite countries: Britain and Germany, and the Europe – even the Europe – to which they both belong; his commitment to public service, to academia, to politics and to liberalism has been visible in all of them. Born in Hamburg, that most anglophile of German cities, on…