Journal of Liberal History

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Journal of Liberal History

For the discussion and research of Liberal, Liberal Democrat and SDP history

1886-1895

  • The Liberal Party and womens suffrage, 1866-1918

    Analysis of the relationship between the Liberal Party and the campaigns for womens suffrage.

  • David and Maggie

    Diaries and correspondence files are used to examine the courtship between David Lloyd George and Margaret Owen between 1884 and their marriage in 1888.

  • Report: Fighting Labour – the struggle for radical supremacy in Scotland 1885-1929

    Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at the Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference, 13 March 2009, with Professor Richard Finlay, Dr Catriona Macdonald and Jim Wallace. Chair: Robert Brown MSP.

  • Land and nation in England

    Review of Paul Readman, Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914 (Royal Historical Society, 2008).

  • Edwardian Liberalism

    Review of H. V. Emy, Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics, 1892-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1973; reprinted 2008).

  • A distinction without a difference?

    An analysis of how the Liberal Unionists maintained a distinctive identity from their Conservative allies, until coalition in 1895.

  • Secular intellectuals

    Review of William C. Lubenow, Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh (Boydell Press, 2010).

  • Fighting Labour: the struggle for radical supremacy in Scotland 1885-1929

    The Liberal Democrat History Group is holding its first meeting in Scotland as part of the fringe at the Scottish Liberal Democrats’ spring conference. The meeting will look back at the Liberal Party’s contribution to radical, progressive politics in Scotland and its struggle with Labour in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, culminating in…

  • Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1836-1908

    There have been four Liberals at the head of clearly Liberal governments – Gladstone, Rosebery, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith. Three of them are well-known names. Yet of the four, ‘CB’ was far and away the best party leader. Only Grimond, in very different circumstances, can compare with him. Had Campbell-Bannerman not become leader in…

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