Journal of Liberal History

England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

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

1895-1910

  • Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme

    This meeting looked at Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme, and how this led to the loss of the Whigs from the Liberal Party and paved the way for the New Liberalism of the 1905 government.

  • The Liberal press and the South African War

    The importance of the Liberal press in the politics of the Second Boer War.

  • Hastings in 1900

    The ‘khaki election’ of 1900 saw the Liberals performing poorly. This article examines one seat they gained from the Conservatives.

  • Land taxing and the Liberals, 1879 – 1914

    Why did the Liberals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries care so much about the land question in general, and land value taxation in particular?

  • Report: 1906 remembered

    Scottish Liberal Club lecture, with Willis Pickard.

  • 1909 People’s Budget

    The 1909 People's Budget was the Liberal Government's key weapon in instigating social reform and marked a final move away from the system of Gladstonian finance, which had seen the Liberals traditionally associated with retrenchment in government expenditure and an emphasis on self-help. With its radical plans to redistribute the burden of tax and finance…

  • Liberal Unionists

    Gladstone’s decision to pursue a policy of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886 divided the Liberal Party to the core and prompted the departure of the Liberal Unionists, who subsequently formed a separate political party, under the leadership of the Marquess of Hartington.

  • The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism

    Examination of the role of a little-known radical group in the 1890s in the evolution of the Liberal and Labour parties.

  • A lost Prime Minister?

    Biography of Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland (1847-1926).

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