Journal of Liberal Democrat History 30
Journal of Liberal Democrat History 30
Issue: 30, Spring 2001Price: £4
Contents
Ashdown as leader
In November 2000 Paddy Ashdown published the first volume of his diaries. This article comprises two interviews with him on his period as leader.
'His friends sat on the benches opposite'
Examination of the part played by the renegade Conservatives – the Peelites – in the creation of the Liberal Party.
The unofficial side
The Bodleian Library’s acquisition of H.H. Asquith’s personal papers.
Backbench Maverick
The political life and career of Liberal MP James Myles Hogge (1873-1928).
Report: the Limehouse declaration and the birth of the SDP
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group meeting of January 2001, with speakers including Lord Oakeshott and Sir Ian Wrigglesworth.
Letters to the Editor: Issue 30
Community politics (Michael Meadowcroft & Robert Ingham); The Liberal Party and the outbreak of World War I (Peter Hatton).
Audacious - but fundamentally flawed
Review of Paddy Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries, Volume 1: 1988-1997 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000).
Thirty Years of Liberator
Review of, Thirty Years of Liberator.
A man of government
Review of Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 (Macmillan, 2000).