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.
- Electoral politics in Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1832-85
Supervisor – Mr. Alan J. Heesom
- The intellectual duke: George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll, 1823-1900
- Gladstone’s Fourth Ministry, 1892-94: policies and personalities
- The making of Liberal Party policy, 1945-80
- A geographical analysis of the decline of the Liberal Party, 1918-25
- The North of England Newspaper Company, 1903-1939: the declining political importance of a Liberal newspaper company
- Conservatism and Liberal Unionism in Glasgow, 1874-1912
- William Robertson Nicoll and the Liberal nonconformist press
- The Liberal Party and South Africa, 1868-80
- The inter-change between political ideas and events in Britain from the Great Reform Act of 1832 to 1870
Supervisor – Dr. I.J. Prothero
- The National Reform Union and the Reform League: a comparative analysis
Supervisor – Dr. David Nicholls
- The social and political activity of the Cadbury family: a study in manipulative capitalism
Supervisor – Professor Roy A. Lowe
- An analysis of the reform of the House of Lords, 1911-2000
Supervisor: Professor Vernon B. Bogdanor
- 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