Journal of Liberal History 97 – Journal of Liberal History

Liberal history news

Obituary of Bill Pitt; events at Gladstone’s Library.

The Forbidden Ground

Examination of Gladstone’s role in the introduction and abolition of the Contagious Diseases Acts.

Domesticity and the New Liberalism in the Edwardian press

Analysis of how the Liberal government’s introduction of labour exchanges and maternity benefits was viewed in the press.

Liberal archives at Flintshire Record Office

List of the archival collections of interest to students of the Liberal Party held at the Flintshire County Record Office.

Liberals in Local Government 1967–2017

Report of Liberal Democrat History Group fringe meeting, Bournemouth, 17 September 2017, with Kath Pinnock, Tony Greaves, Richard Kemp, Sarah Bedford, Matt Cole and Ruth Dombey; chair: Andrew Stunell.

Letters to the Editor

Nelia Penman (Graeme Peters); Lloyd George and Nonconformity (Kenneth O. Morgan); French elections (Ian Stuart); The 2017 election (Trevor Jones and Richard Pealling).

Radical Joe and Chocolate George

Review of Andrew Reekes, Two Titans, One City: Joseph Chamberlain and George Cadbury (History West Midlands, 2017).

Liberalism: An outstanding introduction

Review of Michael Freeden, Liberalism. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Slippery Liberalism

Review of Edmund Fawcett, Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (Princeton University Press, 2015).

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