Liberal Democrat History Group Newsletter 8
Liberal Democrat History Group Newsletter 8
Issue: 8, Autumn 1995
Contents
What influences Liberal Democrats?
John Stuart Mill, Jo Grimond, green economists and the Suez crisis, according to this Liberal Democrat History Group survey of formative influences on leading Liberal Democrat politicians.
Education - back to our roots
Policy retrospective: Liberal education policy since the nineteenth century.
Gladstone, Marx and modern progressives
Examination of the relationship between Karl Marx and William Ewart Gladstone, between revolutionary Marxism and reformist Gladstonian Liberalism.
Jo Grimond's Liberalism
Review of Peter Joyce, Giving Politics a Good Name: A Tribute to Jo and Laura Grimond (Liberal Democrat Publications, 1995).
Oligarchy and empiricism
Review of Will Hutton, The State We're In (Jonathan Cape, 1995).