Social policy
Report: Social reformers and Liberals: The Rowntrees and their legacy
Report of the History Group conference fringe meeting, 7 March 2014, with Ian Packer, Lord Shutt and Tina Walker; chair: Lord Kirkwood. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Social reformers and liberals: the Rowntrees and their legacy
Joseph and Seebohm Rowntree were successful businessmen, pioneers of social investigation and committed Liberals. Discuss their careers and political legacy at the History Group’s meeting at the Liberal Democrat spring conference, with Ian Packer (Lincoln University), Tina Walker and Lord Shutt (Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust). Chair: Lord Kirkwood.
Ownership for All the Liberal Party, co-ownership and industrial relations
In 1928 the Liberal Party published the Yellow Book, the report Britains Industrial Future. While the report made a compelling case for state intervention in the economy and planning and advocated great programmes of public works, it also contained detailed proposals for profit-sharing and co-ownership. Unlike socialists, Liberals did not seek the abolition of private…
The single-taxers and the future of Liberalism, 1906-1914
Analysis of what was hailed, in the early years of the twentieth century, as the radical alternative to collectivism and even the New Liberalism. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Report: Founding the welfare state
Report of fringe meeting of 14 September 2008, with Ian Packer and Joe Harris. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Land taxing and the Liberals, 1879 – 1914
Why did the Liberals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries care so much about the land question in general, and land value taxation in particular? To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme
This meeting looked at Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme, and how this led to the loss of the Whigs from the Liberal Party and paved the way for the New Liberalism of the 1905 government.
‘Freedom not regimentation’
Liberalism, garden cities and early town planning. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Report: Joseph Chamberlain and the Unauthorised Programme
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting held at the National Liberal Club on 25 July 2005, with Peter Marsh and Terry Jenkins. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.