Journal of Liberal History 38
Journal of Liberal History 38
Issue: 38, Spring 2003Price: £5
Contents
Roy Jenkins remembered
Appreciation of the life of Roy Jenkins (Lord Jenkins of Hillhead), who died on 5 January 2003.
Interviewing Roy Jenkins
The last major interview given by Roy Jenkins, in November 2002.
The British Liberal tradition
From Gladstone to young Churchill, Asquith and Lloyd George – is Blair their heir? The fourth annual Senator Keith Davey lecture delivered at Victoria University, University of Toronto, in 2000.
Writing about Roy
Review of the obituaries and appreciations of Roy Jenkins published by major newspapers.
Pioneering spirit
Were Liberals really the inventors of community politics? Tony Little takes a look at Benjamin Franklin’s claim.
Lawyer, politician and judge
The career of Tommy Shaw (1850-1937), one of Campbell-Bannerman’s law officers.
The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism
Examination of the role of a little-known radical group in the 1890s in the evolution of the Liberal and Labour parties.
Campaigner against slavery
The life of Sir John Harris (1874-1940), campaigner against slavery and colonial exploitation in Africa and Liberal MP for North Hackney, 1923-24.
Remembering Jo
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group meeting of September 2002, on Jo Grimond, with Michael McManus, William Wallace, Tony Greaves and Tom Dale.
Archive sources: Bodleian Library
Liberal archives at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
The great chain which connects
Review of David Cannadine, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (Penguin, 2002).
'Parliament has never granted any important reform without being bullied'
Review of Martin Pugh, The Pankhursts (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2001).
A writer and pragmatist at the Liberal High Table
Review of John Powell (ed.), Liberal by Principle: The Politics of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, 1843-1902 (The Historians Press, 1996).
Research: Issue 38
The History of Parliament project.