Journal of Liberal History 47 – Special issue: Liberals of the Right?
Journal of Liberal History 47 – Special issue: Liberals of the Right?
Issue: 47, Summer 2005Price: £7.5
Contents
Liberals of the right?
Introduction to this special issue of the Journal.
Left and right in Victorian Liberalism
The meaning of terms in the political spectrum of the Victorian era.
From left to right? The career of John Morley
Biography of John Morley (1838-1923), the leading Victorian and Edwardian Liberal who could be seen as both of the left and the right.
The last of the Liberals
The career and political thought of Francis Wrigley Hirst (1873-1953).
Left, right: December 1916 - The forward march of Liberals halted
Was the disastrous Liberal split of 1916 a matter of personalities or ideologies?
Battle of ideas or absence of leadership?
Analysis of the ideological struggle in the Liberal Party in the 1940s and 1950s.
Liberals and the New Right
Biography of Arthur Seldon (1916-2005), erstwhile Liberal and founder of the Institute for Economic Affairs.
David Owen and the social market economy
Examination of the Owenite concept of the ’social market, and how it was used as a political weapon.
Is the future orange?
Review of Paul Marshall and David Laws (eds.), The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism (Profile Books, 2004).
Of rogues and ruin
Review of David McKie, Jabez - The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue (Atlantic Books 2004).