Journal of Liberal History 72 – Special issue: The Liberal experience of coalition government
Journal of Liberal History 72 – Special issue: The Liberal experience of coalition government
Issue: 72, Autumn 2011Price: £10
Contents
Riding the tiger: the Liberal experience of coalition government
Vernon Bogdanor introduces this special issue of the Journal.
Coalition before 1886
Whigs, Peelites and Liberals: an examination of coalitions before 1886.
A distinction without a difference?
An analysis of how the Liberal Unionists maintained a distinctive identity from their Conservative allies, until coalition in 1895.
The coalition of 1915-1916
Prelude to disaster: an examination of the Asquith coalition of 1915-16, which brought to an end the last solely Liberal government.
Liberals in coalition, 1916-1922
An analysis of the history of the last Liberal-Conservative coalition government.
Liberalism and the National Government, 1931-40
An examination of the impact of the National Government on the Liberal Party.
Crisis, coalition and cuts
An analysis of the parallels between the formation of the coalition governments in 1931 and 2010.
Coalition in the archives
The papers of Liberal activist Frances Josephy are used to examine the attitudes of ordinary Liberals to coalitions in the 1920s and 1930s.
Be careful what you wish for
The lessons of the Lib-Lab Pact for the Lib-Con coalition.
The history of the triple lock
Where the ‘triple lock’ came from, how it worked and its future.
Consolation government?
Review of Bernard Donoughue, Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in Number 10 (Jonathan Cape, 2008).
Evolving the constitution
Review of Vernon Bogdanor, The Coalition and the Constitution (Hart Publishing, 2011).