Journal of Liberal Democrat History 27
Journal of Liberal Democrat History 27
Issue: 27, Summer 2000Price: £3.5
Contents
Leaders and leadership
Interview with Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party 1967-76.
Churchill, Clement Davies and the Ministry of Education
Examination of the offer of a cabinet position to the Liberal leader Clement Davies in October 1951.
The newcomer
The story of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray’s spirited performance on the Oxford hustings in 1857.
Lord Rea
The career of Philip Russell Rea, (1900-81), the Liberal leader in the Lords in the 1950s and 60s.
Report: Dancing the Charleston again
Report of History Group meeting of November 1999, on Liberal/Labour relations during the 1918-31 period.
Report: Leaders good and bad
Report of History Group meeting of February 2000, on Liberal, SDP and Liberal Democrat leaders, with Robert Maclennan MP and Professor Peter Clarke.
A Liberal life
Review of Daniel Waley, A Liberal Life: Sydney, Earl Buxton, 1853-1934 (Newtimber, 1999).
Liberals and Labour
Review of Peter Joyce, Realignment of the Left? A history of the relationship between the Liberal Democrat and Labour parties (Macmillan, 1999).
Intelligent Liberalism
Review of Conrad Russell, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism (Duckworth, 1999).