Social policy
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Margaret Lloyd George
Review of Richard O’Brien, The Woman Who Helped Win the War – The Welfare Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George, 1914–1918 (Y Lolfa, 2025)
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William Beveridge and Ernest Simon
An analysis of the contribution of two leading Liberal thinkers to the development of post-war social policy.
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The question of temperance
Review of David H. Fahey, The Politics of Drink in England, from Gladstone to Lloyd George (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)
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The 1847 Financial Crisis and the Irish Famine
Liberal Democrat History Group evening meeting: 29 January 2024 with Dr Charles Read and Professor Liam Kennedy; chair: Tony Little
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Stop the Tour!
Peter Hain recalls his experiences in the Young Liberals fighting apartheid in the 1960s and ’70s
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Cromwell’s statue and the fall of the Liberal government in 1895
An early political controversy about statues, and its link to the fall of Rosebery’s government
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Liberals with a radical programme: The post-war welfare state, Beveridge and the Liberal Party 75 years on. 26th September 2020
Liberals with a radical programme: The post-war welfare state, Beveridge and the Liberal Party 75 years on. 26th September 2020 Recording of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting: Liberals with a radical programme: The post-war welfare state, Beveridge and the Liberal Party 75 years on. 26th September 2020 2020 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the…
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Liberals with a radical programme: the post-war welfare state, Beveridge and the Liberal Party 75 years on
Conference fringe meeting (online), 26 September 2020, with Dr Peter Sloman and Professor Pat Thane; chair: Baroness Tyler.
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‘Universally respected, admired and … disliked’
Gladstone and franchise reform, 1864.