1895-1910
Report: Landslide for the left
Report of LDHG meeting of September 1996, on the 1906 election, with John Grigg and Andrew Adonis. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Education and the Liberal rank and file in Edwardian England: the case of Sir George White
The political career and beliefs of one of the major proponents of Liberal education policy in the Edwardian period. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Liberal Party fortunes in the Isle of Wight 1900-1910
The political and electoral history of a Liberal-Conservative marginal seat. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
John Sutton Nettlefold, Liberalism and the early town planning movement
The contribution of the chair of Birmingham’s Housing Committee, 1901-11, to the debates on slum housing and town planning. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Report: ‘Methods of barbarism’
Report of LDHG meeting of July 2000 on Liberalism and the Boer War, with Denis Judd and Jacqueline Beaumont. Chair, Menzies Campbell MP. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
The Liberal Party and the South African War 1899-1902
Examination of the crisis in the Liberal Party that was provoked by the Anglo-Boer War. To access this content, you must purchase Annual subscription (digital) – unwaged rate or Annual subscription (digital) – standard rate.
Lloyd George on the People’s Budget
Lloyd George's 1909 People's Budget was devised to bring about social reform and featured increases in income tax and excise duties, new taxes on cars, petrol and land, and a new supertax for those with incomes above £5,000.
Sir John Simon (Viscount Simon), 1873-1954
Though he never rose to the premiership, John Allsebrook Simon’s collection of the highest offices of state – the Home Office (twice), the Treasury, the Foreign Office and the Woolsack – is unique in twentieth-century history. He played a major role in British politics over more than three decades, while also enjoying a distinguished legal…