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.
- The formation of the Liberal Party, 1857-68
- British social democratic factionalism 1981-1996: case studies of the SDP 1981-88 and Liberal Democrats 1988-96
- The impact of Liberal welfare reforms in Southampton, 1906-14
- The growth of Liberal organisation in Manchester from the 1860s to 1903
- W.E. Gladstone: the evolution of the Home Rule policy
- Campbell-Bannerman as Opposition leader, 1899-1905
- The Liberal mind, 1914-1929
- John Maynard Keynes and international relations: idealism, economic paths to war and peace, and post-war reconstruction
- Edmund Burke and the constitutional crisis, 1778-84
Supervisor – Dr. Leslie G. Mitchell
- Inventing economic imperialism: British Liberals change their minds about capitalism and war
Supervisor – Professor Michael S. Freeden
- The Irish policies of the second Gladstone government, 1880-85
- Community politics: a study of the Liberal Democrats in local government
- Conservatives, Liberals and Labour in Yorkshire, 1918-29
- Liberal Party organization and politics in Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, 1886-1914, with particular reference to the devopment of independent labour representation
- The political thought of David George Ritchie: elements of a late Victorian Liberal creed
- Joseph Chamberlain and the Unauthorized Programme
- The emergence of Liberal Anglican politics: the Whigs and the Church, 1830-41
- The political career of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of Portland, 1738-1809
Supervisor – Professor Peter D.G. Thomas
- The strange death of British Liberalism: the Liberal summer schools’ movement and the making of the Yellow Book in the 1920s
Supervisor – Professor Ben J. Pimlott
- For women, for Wales and for Liberalism: women in Liberal politics in Wales c.1883-1914