Liberal Democrat History Group Newsletter 14 – Special issue: The Liberal revival
Liberal Democrat History Group Newsletter 14 – Special issue: The Liberal revival
Issue: 14, Spring 1997Price: £3
Contents
1959-74: years of Liberal revolution?
Introduction to this special issue on the Liberal postwar revival.
Remembering Beveridge
Memories of William Beveridge, social scientist and Liberal, whose ideas shaped British postwar politics.
Jo Grimond's leadership of the Liberal Party
‘The personification and the hope of postwar Liberalism.’ The record of Jo Grimond.
Fighting Orpington
The stunning by-election victory of Orpington in 1962 was the high point of the first Liberal revival. Eric Lubbock (now Lord Avebury) was the candidate.
The lessons of Orpington
Analysis of the importance of the by-election result for the Liberal Party.
Abortion reform 1967
Memories of the battles over one of the key pieces of social reform legislation of the 1960s.
The Sutton & Cheam by-election
The Sutton & Cheam by-election was won for the Liberal Party in December 1972. Jennifer Tankard interviews the victor, Graham (now Lord) Tope.
Young Liberal influence and its effects, 1970-74
Young Liberals provided the Liberal Party with activists, candidates and radical ideas. This article examines the YL record of the early 1970s.
Postwar Liberalism
Review of Arthur Cyr, Liberal Politics in Britain (Transaction Books, 1988).