Liberal Democrat History Group Newsletter 16
Liberal Democrat History Group Newsletter 16
Issue: 16, Autumn 1997Price: £2.5
Contents
So how well did we do?
A critical look at the Liberal Democrats’ performance in the 1997 election.
Report: why didn't the Liberal Party die?
Report of LDHG meeting of March 1997 on the near death and survival of the Liberal Party in the 1950s and ’60s, with William Wallace.
The Labour Party and the pursuit of the Liberal vote, 1945-1959
Labour made a determined effort to absorb the Liberal vote when the party seemed to be in terminal decline after 1945.
Report: Liberal/Tory pacts: partnership of principle or struggle for survival?
Report of LDHG meeting of March 1997, with Michael Kandiah.
Archive sources: LSE
An overview of the Liberal Party archive deposited in the Archives Division of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, and related Liberal Party material among the main library holdings.
The unknown Prime Minister
Review of Ferdinand Mount, Umbrella (Heinemann, 1994).