1895-1910
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The ‘People’s Budget’ a century on
An examination of the genesis, content and impact of Lloyd George’s famous Budget of one hundred years ago.
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Rt Hon Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Report of centenary commemorations in Scotland, April 2008.
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The 1908 Hastings by-election
The story of the first by-election to be fought after the introduction of the Liberal government’s 1908 legislative programme.
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James Wood: East Down’s Liberal MP
The life and political career of James Wood, victor of the East Down by-election in February 1902.
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‘He would not stoop, he did not conquer’
Review of Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery (Phoenix, 1995).
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The legacy of Gladstone
The Grand Old Man’s record.
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‘Taxes that will bring forth fruit’ – The centenary of the People’s Budget of 1909
Following the introduction of Old Age Pensions by the Liberal government of H H Asquith in 1908 and the plans to legislate for limited unemployment and sickness benefit through National Insurance, Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George brought in the means to pay for these measures, as well as for naval rearmament, in his…
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Founding the welfare state
A hundred years ago, in 1908, H. H. Asquith’s government introduced the Old Age Pensions Bill. This was just the beginning of a comprehensive Liberal programme of social reform, including national insurance, minimum wages, labour exchanges and compulsory school meals, among much else. Did this programme really represent a decisive break with nineteenth-century notions of…