Journal of Liberal History 71 – Journal of Liberal History

Liberal history news: issue 71

Welsh Liberal history lecture and tribute to Lord Livsey at the Hay Festival.

The afterlives of former Liberal prime ministers

A look at the lives in retirement of Russell, Gladstone, Rosebery, Asquith and Lloyd George.

Sheelagh Murnaghan and the Ulster Liberal Party

The life and political career of the only Liberal to win a seat in the Northern Ireland parliament.

Letters to the Editor: Issue 71

Mill and Morley (Patrick Jackson); Mill and equality (Dinti Batstone); Chamberlains relatives (Adrian Slade); Liberal peerages (Peter Hatton).

Cheltenham's Liberal history

Martin Horwood MP examines the Liberal heritage of his home town.

Russell Johnston

Biography of this passionate and articulate exponent of Liberalism.

Report: Lords reform 1911-2011

Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group Conference fringe meeting held in Sheffield, 11 March 2011, with Lord Norton and Lord Marks; chair: Baroness Scott.

Report: Class of '81: who are the true heirs to the SDP?

Report of the Centre Forum meeting, 21 March 2011, with Andrew Adonis, Chris Huhne MP and Greg Clark MP; chair: Roland Rudd.

Welsh women Liberals

It was not just Lloyd George’s daughters …

Walpole to Blair in retirement

Review of Kevin Theakston, After Number 10: Former Prime Ministers in British Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Survival and revival

Review of Mark Egan, Coming into Focus: The Transformation of the Liberal Party 1945-1964 (VDM Verlag Dr Muller, 2009).

The land question explored

Review of Matthew Cragoe and Paul Readman (eds.), The Land Question in Britain 1750-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Dissent over the airwaves

Review of Adrian Johns, Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (W. W. Norton, 2010).

Strange death?

Review of Ross McKibbin, Parties and People 1914-1951 (Oxford University Press, 2010).

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