In this issue: What Honor did next (Helen Langley); William Ewart Gladstone (Simon Heffer); Some cornerstones still in place (Tudor Jones); review of Clarke, Kind of Blue: A political memoir, Cameron, For the Record and Letwin, Hearts and Minds: The battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the present (Duncan Brack); review of Hargreaves, Laybourn and Toye (eds.), Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J. H. Whitley (1866–1935) – Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Michael Meadowcroft); review of Blaxill, The War of Words: The language of British elections, 1880–1914 (Iain Sharpe).
Journal of Liberal History 109
Issue: 109, Winter 2020-21Price: £7.50
Contents
Liberal history news
Editorial; Roy Douglas obituary; Ann Winfield obituary; commemorating Asquith; Thanks to Patrick Mitchell.
Letters to the Editor
Lady Howard of Llanelli.
What Honor did next
The pioneering broadcasting career of Honor Balfour (1912–2001).
William Ewart Gladstone
Simon Heffer’s chapter on Gladstone from Iain Dale’s new book, The Prime Ministers.
Some cornerstones still in place
The endurance of British Liberalism, 1945–1955.
Tories and the Coalition
Review of Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue: A political memoir (Macmillan, 2016); David Cameron, For the Record (William Collins, 2019); Oliver Letwin, Hearts and Minds: The battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the present (Biteback Publishing, 2017).
Whitley and the Whitley Councils
Review of John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn and Richard Toye (eds.), Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J. H. Whitley (1866– 1935) – Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Routledge, 2018).
The language of elections
Review of Luke Blaxill, The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880–1914 (Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 2020).