Journal of Liberal Democrat History 37
Journal of Liberal Democrat History 37
Issue: 37, Winter 2002Price: £5
Contents
Too short a history
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 (Palgrave, 2002).
Too many numbers
Review of David Boyle, The Tyranny of Numbers: Why counting can't make us happy (Harper Collins, 2001).
Every vote for Llewelyn Williams is a vote against Lloyd George
Examination of the February 1921 by-election in Cardiganshire, where Asquithian and Lloyd George Liberals engaged in bitter internecine warfare.
The farm workers champion
Biography of one of the first working men to be elected to Parliament, Joseph Arch (1826-1919).
Sir Jerom Murch and the civic gospel in Victorian Bath
Analysis of the municipal record of the leader of Bath’s Victorian Liberals.
Value for money
The story of novelist Anthony Trollope’s campaign for Beverley in Yorkshire in 1868.
Hold on, hold out; we are coming
Violet Bonham Carter’s speech after the 1920 Paisley by-election.
Report: Old Liberals, New Liberals and Social Democrats
Report of the July 2002 Liberal Democrat History Group meeting, with Conrad Russell, Shirley Williams and Michael Freeden.
Archives: the Thurso Papers
The Thurso papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.