Labour biographies
Review of Keith Gildart and David Howell (eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XV (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
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Journal Articles
The question of Europe
Review of Vernon Bogdanor, Britain & Europe in a Troubled World (Yale University Press, 2020).
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Religion and politics
Review of Tim Farron, A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal (SPCK Publishing, 2019).
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Back from the dead: the Liberal Party in the 1950s
Report of conference fringe meeting (online), 19 March 2021, with Dr Mark Egan and Lord William Wallace; chair: Baroness Liz Barker
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Asquith vs. Lloyd George
Report of evening meeting (online), 1 February 2021, with David Laws and Damian Collins MP; chair, Wendy Chamberlain MP.
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The Liberal rise in Richmond
The story of how the Liberals grew their local government strength in Richmond in the 1960s and 1970s; with an introduction setting the context.
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Lloyd George, the Liberal Summer Schools and electoral politics in the 1920s
An examination of the role the Liberal Summer Schools played in the electoral record of the Liberal Party in the 1920s.
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Bertha Bowness Fischer
‘One of the most effective and most welcome workers.’ An examination of the career of the first female Liberal political agent.
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Shirley Williams (27 July 1930 – 11 April 2021)
A recollection of the life and political career of the much-missed Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby.
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Letters to the Editor
Remembering Tony Greaves (David Steel, David Raw, Trevor Jones).
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Liberal history news
Editorial; On this day.
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Rosebery’s son
Review of Martin Gibson, A Primrose Path: The gilded life of Lord Rosebery’s favourite son (Arum Press, 2020)
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Edward Grey reassessed
Review of T. G. Otte, Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (Allen Lane, 2020)
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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
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Vision in a time of crisis
Ernest Simon and revitalising Liberalism
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Lord Tony Greaves
27 July 1942 – 23 March 2021; an appreciation of his life
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T. Edmund Harvey
Liberal politician of conscience
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Liberal history news
Editorial; Trevor Smith; Angus Hawkins; John Vincent; Gladstone and
the world cup of Prime Ministers
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The Peterloo massacre
Review of Jacqueline Riding, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre (Head of Zeus, 2018); Polyp, Eva Schlunke and Robert Poole, Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre (New Internationalist, 2019); Robert Poole, Peterloo: The English Uprising (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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