In this issue: Liberal Democrat leadership performance; Jo Swinson as leader; The two Henry Redhead Yorkes, radical to liberal (Amanda Goodrich); Another Madam Mayor (Jaime Reynolds); meeting report – General election 2019 (Neil Stockley); review of Fieldhouse et al, Electoral Shocks (Duncan Brack); review of Cowley and Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2015 and The British General Election of 2017 (Michael Steed); review of Illingworth, Sheelagh Murnaghan (Michael Meadowcroft).
Journal of Liberal History 108
Issue: 108, Autumn 2020Price: £7.50
Contents
Liberal history news
Editorial; Liberal history podcasts.
Liberal Democrat leadership performance
Comparative table of leadership performance updated to 2020.
Jo Swinson as leader
Interview with Jo Swinson on her period as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
The two Henry Redhead Yorkes, radical to liberal
An examination of two BME individuals and their role in British politics, 1790–1850.
Another Madam Mayor
Lady Howard of Llanelli and the strange case of the Cowell-Stepneys.
General Election 2019: Disappointment for the Liberal Democrats
Report of online meeting 8 July 2020, with with Professor Sir John Curtice and James Gurling; chair Wendy Chamberlain MP.
The shock of coalition
Review of Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, and Cees van der Eijk, Electoral Shocks: The volatile voter in a turbulent world (OUP, 2020).
Analysing the 2015 and 2017 elections
Review of Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Philip Cowley and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2017 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Ulster’s Liberal MP
Review of Ruth Illingworth, Sheelagh Murnaghan – Stormont’s only Liberal MP (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2019).
Letters to the Editor
Robert Maclennan; Lloyd George and the partition of Ireland; Five Liberal women; Asquith and home rule.