Journal of Liberal History 60
Journal of Liberal History 60
Issue: 60, Autumn 2008Price: £7.5
Contents
The Old Age Pensions Act, 1908
Analysis of the introduction and implementation of the first state pensions, brought in one hundred years ago.
Letters to the Editor: Issue 60
Pensions and the working class (Martin Pugh); Hastings facts (Patrick Jackson and Paul Hunt); The Master of Elibank (Sandy Waugh); Liberal thinkers (Barry Stocker).
'The strange case of Mr Rigg'
The surprise Liberal victor in North Westmorland in the 1900 election proved to be something of a surprise himself.
Working with others - the Lib-Lab Pact
Report of meeting of 14 July 2008, with David Steel, Tom McNally and Michael Steed.
'Why I am a Liberal'
The dynastic Liberalism of Michael and all the Foots.
Campbell as Leader
Interview with Menzies Campbell, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2006-07, on his political career.
Leader out of time
Review of Menzies Campbell, My Autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton, 2008).
The Left Foot
Review of Kenneth O. Morgan, Michael Foot: A Life (HarperPress, 2007).
Greatest of the Liberal philosophers
Review of Richard Reeves, John Stuart Mill, Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, 2007).
Social Liberalism
Review of Duncan Brack, Richard S. Grayson and David Howarth (eds.), Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century (Politico's, 2007).