Social policy
The question of temperance
Review of David H. Fahey, The Politics of Drink in England, from Gladstone to Lloyd George (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022)
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
Stop the Tour!
Peter Hain recalls his experiences in the Young Liberals fighting apartheid in the 1960s and ’70s
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
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…
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. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
‘Universally respected, admired and … disliked’
Gladstone and franchise reform, 1864. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Doomed to live in towns
Review of Tom Crook, Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910 (University of California Press, 2016).
The Liberal Party, health policy and the origins of the NHS
Report of fringe meeting at Liberal Democrat conference, Bournemouth, 15 September 2019, with Lord Morgan and Chris Renwick; chair Baroness Judith Jolly. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.