William Wallace

Events (chair)

William Wallace chaired the following events on behalf of the Liberal Democrat History Group:

• The Great Reform Act of 1832: its legacy and influence on the Coalition’s reform agenda
• The strange birth of Liberal England
• ‘Taxes that will bring forth fruit’ – The centenary of the People’s Budget of 1909
• Yellow Book versus Orange Book: Is it time for a new New Liberalism?
• Defender of Liberties: Charles James Fox
• ‘The Fruits of the Liberty Tree’ – The Liberal Tradition in North America
• Catastrophe: The 2015 Election Campaign and its Outcome
• What’s left of Gladstonian Liberalism in the Liberal Democrats?
• The 1979 General Election
• Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme
• What Have the Liberals Ever Done For Us? Book Launch

Journal Articles (author)

William Wallace is the author of the following journal articles:

• The origins of Liberalism
• Rawls and his legacy
• Violent Empire?
• Liberal achievements
• A life well lived
• ‘His presence generated electricity’
• How the Liberal Party became committed to the European Union
• Liberal Democrats in coalition: Europe
• Managing the coalition
• Dissent over the airwaves
• Cromwell’s statue and the fall of the Liberal government in 1895
• The twisting path
• Liberalism and illiberalism

Events (speaker)

William Wallace was a featured speaker at the following events:

• Liberal Democrats in Europe, 21 years of success or failure?
• The Legacy of Jo Grimond – Remembering Jo
• Why didn’t the Liberal Party Die? The first Liberal revival, 1959-66
• Liberalism in the north
• Europe: The Liberal commitment
• The Liberal Party and the First World War
• Torrington ’58: Liberal survival and revival, 1945-79
• Red Guard versus Old Guard? The influence of the Young Liberal movement on the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 1970s a witness seminar
• Back from the dead: the Liberal Party in the 1950s

Groups

• Members of Parliament (Lords)