Local Liberal history
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Berwick-upon-Tweed: A venal borough?
Berwick’s reputation for electoral corruption during the nineteenth century, and the impact of bribery on voting behaviour.
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The Glyndwr manuscripts
The Glyndwr collection at the Denbighshire Record Office throws light on the fortunes of the local Liberal Party in the 1920s and ’30s.
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Swinging in the 60s to the Liberals
Mary Murphy and Pontypridd Urban District Council.
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Searching for Paddy Logan
Liberal Heritage: discovering Harborough’s Liberal history.
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Scarborough politicians
Review of Anne and Paul Bayliss, Scarborough’s MPs 1832 to 1906; Scarborough’s Mayors 1836 to 1906; A Biographical Dictionary (A. M. Bayliss).
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Leeds and the Liberal pantheon
Liberal Heritage: Michael Meadowcroft discovers Leeds’ Liberal history.
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Liberalism in the West Country
The West Country has a special place in the Liberal tradition. Home to Isaac Foot and his sons, Thorpe, Penhaligon, Pardoe … For much of the post-war period, the Liberal Party‘s parliamentary representation rested largely on the South West English MPs, along with their colleagues in the rest of the “Celtic fringe”. Michael Steed (University…
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Cheltenham’s Liberal history
Martin Horwood MP examines the Liberal heritage of his home town.
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Battling Bath Liberal
The story of a Liberal activist in Bath in the late nineteenth century, in his own words.