Journal of Liberal History 73 – Journal of Liberal History

The Lloyd George land taxes

A look at the history of the land taxes introduced by Lloyd George in the 1909 People’s Budget.

Liberal National leader

An examination of the life and career of Charles Kerr, Lord Teviot.

The Liberal electoral agent in the post-Reform-Act era

An analysis of the activities of the Liberal electoral agents in the period after the Great Reform Act.

The King of Showland

The unusual career of the entertainment entrepreneur and Liberal MP for Walsall, 1922-24, Pat Collins.

Liberal history quiz 2011 – questions

The questions for the 2011 Liberal history quiz (answers in the next issue).

Report: Forgotten heroes for a governing party

Report of a meeting of June 2011, with Dr Matt Cole, Lord Navnit Dholakia, Baroness Floella Benjamin and Dr Mark Pack.

Report: Peace, Reform and Liberation

Report of a Conference fringe meeting, September 2011, with Julian Glover, Paddy Ashdown and Shirley Williams.

Letters to the Editor: Issue 73

Liberal Prime Ministers (Sandy Waugh); Russell Johnston (Andrew Duff); Cheltenham (Michael Steed); Liberal Unionists (Paul Hunt); The triple lock (Philip Goldenberg); Coalitions (Sandy Waugh).

Comprehensive Liberal history

Review of Robert Ingham and Duncan Brack (eds.), Peace, Reform and Liberation: A History of Liberal Politics in Britain 1679-2011 (Biteback Publishing, 2011).

Personalities and causes of the left

Review of K. O. Morgan, Ages of Reform: Dawns and Downfalls of the British Left (I. B. Tauris, 2011).

Policy and ideology

Review of Tudor Jones, The Revival of British Liberalism - From Grimond to Clegg (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Secular intellectuals

Review of William C. Lubenow, Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh (Boydell Press, 2010).

For Gladstone and Henry George

Review of Paul Mulvey, The Political Life of Josiah C. Wedgwood: Land, Liberty and Empire, 1872-1943 (Royal Historical Society, 2010).

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