PhD theses
Theses presented for higher degrees at universities in the UK since 1901, under the titles Liberal Party, liberalism and the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Compiled for the Liberal Democrat History Group by Dr Richard S. Grayson, and Graham Lippiatt using the Institute of Historical Research database for Higher Degrees in the United Kingdom, Part I: Theses Completed.
- Ideas of the Liberal Party: perception, agendas, and liberal politics in the House of Commons, 1832-1852
Suprevisors – Dr. John Stevenson and Professor David S. Eastwood
- The Liberal Party in decline
- The disintegration of the Liberal Party, 1931-3
- Liberal and Labour politics in two Northumberland mining constituencies, 1885-1924
- Scotland and the Liberal Party, 1880-1900, church, Ireland and Empire: a family affair
- Joseph Cowan of Newcastle and radical Liberalism
- The Liberal Party and foreign affairs, 1895-1905
- The Gladstonian Liberal Party and religion, 1867-75
- Jo Grimond’s leadership of the Liberal party
Supervisor – Professor Ben Pimlott
- Labour’s attitudes to social reform, 1900-14
Supervisors – Professor Ian Levitt and Dr. Alan Pratt
- The role of the Liberal Unionist party in British politics, 1886-95
- The modernisation of party organisation: the impact of the Social Democratic Party
- Political communications and party development in Britain: the Social Democratic Party from its origins to the General Election campaign of 1983
- The social and political development of Keighley, with special reference to the response of the Liberal Party to the rise of Labour, 1885-1914
- The Liberal Party in Scotland, 1843-1868: electoral politics and party development
Supervisor – Dr John F McCaffery
- The personal religious life and development of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1832)
- The Liberal Party and South Africa, 1895-1902
- The Paradise Lost of liberalism: individualist political thought in late Victorian Britain
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1867-94: ‘an excellent guerrilla partisan’?
- Seat-votes relationships in British general elections, 1955-97