In this issue: Religion and politics in the Edwardian era (Roger Ottewill); The Liberal Party and the trade unions in the 1870s (Tim Hughes); Asquith: friendship, love and betrayal (Alan Mumford); Meeting report: Election 2017 – a missed opportunity?, with Phil Cowley and James Gurling (Neil Stockley); Review – Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (Ed Randall); Review – Bell, The Labour Party in Opposition 1970–1974 (Michael Meadowcroft); Review – Lendvai, Orbán: Europe’s New Strongman (David Steel); Liberal archives in the Newcastle University Library special collections (Dr J. Graham Jones).
Journal of Liberal History 99
Issue: 99, Summer 2018Price: £7.50
Contents
Liberal history news
New history of the Scottish Liberal Party; corrigenda.
Letters to the Editor
Bill Pitt (David Steel and Antony Hook); Liberals in local government (Tony Greaves and Mark Smulian).
Religion and politics in the Edwardian era
The experience of the Hampshire Congregationalists in the Edwardian period.
The Liberal Party and the trade unions in the 1870s
Did the Liberals miss an historical opportunity to become the party of organised labour and the trade unions in the 1870s?
Asquith: friendship, love and betrayal
How did Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith’s friendships and relationships affect his political decisions?
Election 2017 – A Missed Opportunity?
Evening meeting, 5 February 2018, with James Gurling and Professor Phil Cowley; chair: Baroness Olly Grender.
A truly remarkable man – but not a universal man
Review of Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (William Collins, 2015).
Social democracy versus socialism
Review of Patrick Bell, The Labour Party in Opposition 1970–1974 (Routledge, 2016).
From liberal to authoritarian
Review of Paul Lendvai, Orbán: Europe’s New Strongman (C. Hurst & Co., 2017)
Newcastle University Library Special Collections
Dr J. Graham Jones lists the archival collections of interest to students of the Liberal Party held at Newcastle University.