In this issue: The Liberal Party and the general election of 1915. What would have happened?; Modernising the Liberal Party – the New Orbits Group, 1958 – c.1962; Liberal defectors and the First World War; The changing face of election campaigning – interview with Chris Rennard; Who rules? Parliament, people or the Prime Minister?
Journal of Liberal History 95
Issue: 95, Summer 2017Price: £7.50
Contents
The Liberal Party and the general election of 1915
What could have happened in the general election due in 1915 but postponed because of the war.
The New Orbits Group, 1958 – c.1962
A look at the purpose and achievements of the New Orbits Group.
Corrigenda
Journal of Liberal History 93; Journal of Liberal History 94.
Letters to the Editor
Liberal Democrats and the Coalition (Nigel Lindsay).
Liberal defectors and the First World War
An analysis of the impact of the Great War on defections from the party.
The changing face of election campaigning
An interview with Chris Rennard, former Director of Campaigns and Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats, about election campaigning.
‘Jeremy is innocent’: the life and times of Jeremy and Marion Thorpe
Liberal Democrat History Group meeting, held at the National Liberal Club on 6 February 2017, with Ronald Porter; chair: Michael Steed.
Who rules? Parliament, the people or the Prime Minister?
Spring conference fringe meeting, 17 March 2017, with Professor Michael Braddick and Baroness Joan Walmsley; chair: Baroness Lynne Featherstone.
All prime ministers competently surveyed in a single tome
Dick Leonard, A History of British Prime Ministers (Omnibus Edition): Walpole to Cameron (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Saint or devil?
Ian Cawood and Chris Upton (eds.), Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Asquith’s obsession
Stefan Buczacki, My Darling Mr Asquith: The extraordinary life and times of Venetia Stanley (Cato & Clarke 2016)
Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott
John Preston, A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment (Viking, 2016).