In this issue: Asquith’s return to parliament at the 1920 Paisley by-election (Hugh Gault); Robert Maclennan (Lord Maclennan of Rogart) (Michael Meadowcroft); Northampton and the democratic radical tradition (Tim Hughes); meeting report – The 1979 general election (Neil Stockley); review of Jones, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism (William Wallace); review of Waugh, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Malcolm Baines); review of Weliver, Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon (Roger Swift); review of Ivatt, The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George (Vernon Bogdanor)
Journal of Liberal History 106
Issue: 106, Spring 2020Price: £7.50
Contents
Liberal history news
Editorial; Corrigenda; Lloyd George and the Spanish flu; In memoriam – Paddy Ashdown.
Asquith’s return to parliament at the 1920 Paisley by-election
Analysis of the by-election that returned the Liberal leader to the Commons.
Letters to the Editor
The Birmingham caucus (Oliver Harris); Anarchism and Liberalism (Shaun Pitt).
Robert Maclennan (Lord Maclennan of Rogart)
A look back at the life and career of the third leader of the SDP.
Northampton and the democratic radical tradition
An analysis of the relationship between Chartism and radical Liberals in Northampton in the 1860s and ’70s.
The 1979 general election
Report of evening meeting, 3 February 2020 with David (Lord) Steel and Professor Sir John Curtice. Chair: Lord Wallace.
The twisting path
Review of Tudor Jones, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism: from Jo Grimond to Brexit (2nd edn., Manchester University Press, 2019).
CB
Review of Alexander S. Waugh, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman: A Scottish Life and UK Politics 1836–1908 (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2019).
Liberalism and the Gladstone salon
Review of Phyllis Weliver, Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Lloyd George and money
Review of Ian Ivatt, The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George (Welsh Academic Press, 2019).