1895-1910
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Report: Landslide for the left
Report of LDHG meeting of September 1996, on the 1906 election, with John Grigg and Andrew Adonis.
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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.
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Liberal Party fortunes in the Isle of Wight 1900-1910
The political and electoral history of a Liberal-Conservative marginal seat.
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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.
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Lib-Labs
The first working class representatives within Parliament were known as "Lib-Lab" MPs. They accepted the Liberal whip while exercising the right to utilise their experience to speak freely on labour issues.
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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.
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1906 Election
In the General Election of January 1906 the Liberals swept to victory in a landslide result, which saw the party win 400 seats. Conservative strongholds such as Bath and Exeter were conquered as Liberal leader, Henry Campbell Bannerman capitalised on the unpopularity of the previous Tory administration, which had been replaced by his new Liberal…
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The Liberal Party and the New Liberalism
Examination of the relationship between the New Liberalism and the Liberal Party in the period around the Liberal victory of 1906.
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Edwardian Liberalism
Review of H. V. Emy, Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics, 1892-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1973; reprinted 2008).