In this issue: Old heroes for a new leader (Ed Davey and Layla Moran); Five Liberal women and politics (Alan Mumford); Lloyd George and an Anglo-Irish centenary (Alistair Lexden); Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords (Dr J. Graham Jones); review of Lee Sykes, Losing from the Inside (Michael Meadowcroft); review of Bale, Webb and Poletti, Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century (Duncan Brack); review of Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The third Irish home rule crisis, 1909–14 (Iain Sharpe); review of Kyrle, Liberals in Hampshire: a part(l)y history, Part 4, Eastleigh 1978–85 (Gianni Sarra).
Journal of Liberal History 107
Issue: 107, Summer 2020Price: £7.50
Contents
Liberal history news
Editorial; Gladstone and slavery.
Old heroes for a new leader
Liberal Democrat leadership candidates’ historical heroes.
Five Liberal women and politics
Analysis of the influence of five leading women in the Liberal Party in the early twentieth century.
Lloyd George and an Anglo-Irish centenary
Text of an address to mark the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
The Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords
A listing of the archival sources held at the Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords of potential interest to students of the Liberal Party.
Letters to the Editor
Robert Maclennan; Asquith and the Paisley by-election.
Why did the SDP fail?
Review of Patricia Lee Sykes, Losing from the Inside (2nd edn., Routledge, originally published 1989, republished 2018 as an e-book).
Who are the Liberal Democrats?
Review of Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti, Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2020).
Ireland and the Liberals
Review of James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The third Irish home rule crisis, 1909–14 (Cork University Press, 2019).
Hampshire Liberals
Review of Martin Kyrle, Liberals in Hampshire: a part(l)y history, Part 4, Eastleigh 1978–85 (Sarsen Press, 2020).