The language of elections
Review of Luke Blaxill, The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880–1914 (Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 2020).
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Journal Articles
Whitley and the Whitley Councils
Review of John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn and Richard Toye (eds.), Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J. H. Whitley (1866– 1935) – Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Routledge, 2018).
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Tories and the Coalition
Review of Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue: A political memoir (Macmillan, 2016); David Cameron, For the Record (William Collins, 2019); Oliver Letwin, Hearts and Minds: The battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the present (Biteback Publishing, 2017).
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Some cornerstones still in place
The endurance of British Liberalism, 1945–1955.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Simon Heffer’s chapter on Gladstone from Iain Dale’s new book, The Prime Ministers.
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What Honor did next
The pioneering broadcasting career of Honor Balfour (1912–2001).
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Letters to the Editor
Lady Howard of Llanelli.
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Liberal history news
Editorial; Roy Douglas obituary; Ann Winfield obituary; commemorating Asquith; Thanks to Patrick Mitchell.
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Letters to the Editor
Robert Maclennan; Lloyd George and the partition of Ireland; Five Liberal women; Asquith and home rule.
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Ulster’s Liberal MP
Review of Ruth Illingworth, Sheelagh Murnaghan – Stormont’s only Liberal MP (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2019).
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Analysing the 2015 and 2017 elections
Review of Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016);
Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2017 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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The shock of coalition
Review of Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, and Cees van der Eijk, Electoral Shocks: The volatile voter in a turbulent world (OUP, 2020).
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General Election 2019: Disappointment for the Liberal Democrats
Report of online meeting 8 July 2020, with with Professor Sir John Curtice and James Gurling; chair Wendy Chamberlain MP
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Another Madam Mayor
Lady Howard of Llanelli and the strange case of the Cowell-Stepneys.
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The two Henry Redhead Yorkes, radical to liberal
An examination of two BME individuals and their role in British politics, 1790–1850.
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Jo Swinson as leader
Interview with Jo Swinson on her period as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
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Liberal Democrat leadership performance
Comparative table of leadership performance updated to 2020.
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Liberal history news
Editorial; Liberal history podcasts.
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Letters to the Editor: Issue 58
The greatest Liberal? (Roy Douglas); Lloyd George and Hitler (Vernon Bogdanor).
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Letters to the Editor: Issue 56
Injustice to Asquith (John Howe); Watkin, Yarmouth and Exeter (Michael Steed).