Journal of Liberal History 53
Journal of Liberal History 53
Issue: 53, Winter 2006Price: £6
Contents
Gladstone and the Conservative collapse
Analysis of the article on The Conservative Collapse in the Fortnightly Review of 1 May 1880, published anonymously but written by Gladstone.
Dishing the Whigs in Winchester
The impact of electoral reform in the nineteenth century on elections in Winchester.
The Inverness turning point
How the Liberals’ near-miss in the Inverness by-election of 1954 proved a turning point in the party’s fortunes.
Last of the Midland radicals
Biography of Sir Geoffrey Mander, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, 1929-45.
Last outpost of urban radicalism: Wolverhampton East, Liberal seat 1832 - 1945
Analysis of Geoffrey Mander’s Wolverhampton seat.
Letters to the Editor: Issue 53
Electoral support (John Meadowcroft); Herbert Gladstone and South Africa (Peter Hatton).
Tom Horabin remembered
Personal memoir of Tom Horabin MP.
Beveridge in person
An encounter with Lord Beveridge.
The Suez crisis
Report of meeting of 3 July 2006, with Professor Peter Barberis.
The reluctant leader
Review of Greg Hurst, Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw (Politico's, 2006).
Citizenship and democracy
Review of Geoffrey Foote, The Republican Transformation of Modern British Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
'Women's rights and women's duties'
Review of Ursula Masson, Women's Rights and Women's Duties: The Aberdare Women's Liberal Association, 1891-1910 (South Wales Record Society, 2005).
From Walpole, 1720, to Blair, 2005
Review of Roger Ellis and Geoffrey Treasure, Britain's Prime Ministers (Shepheard-Walwyn, 2005).
Churchill reinterpreted
Review of Richard Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill (BBC Books, 2005).
Steel and Wainwright papers
Project to catalogue the papers of Richard Wainwright and David Steel at the British Library of Political and Economic Science.