1895-1910
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William Beveridge (Lord Beveridge), 1879-1963
William Henry Beveridge was born in Rangpur, an Indian station in Bengal, on 5 March 1879. He was the second child and first son of Henry Beveridge, a district sessions judge in the Indian Civil Service, by his second wife, Annette Susannah Ackroyd, who had travelled to India, originally in response to a call to…
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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).
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The Liberal Party and womens suffrage, 1866-1918
Analysis of the relationship between the Liberal Party and the campaigns for womens suffrage.
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‘The strange case of Mr Rigg’
The surprise Liberal victor in North Westmorland in the 1900 election proved to be something of a surprise himself.
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Individualist thought and radicalism
Josiah C. Wedgwood’s battle against the collectivists, 1906 – 1914.
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A fine and disinterested spirit
The life and activities of Aneurin Williams MP (1859-1924).
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Edwardian Liberalism: ideology and political practice
Review of Ian Packer, Liberal Government and Politics, 1905-15 (Palgrave, 2006).
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‘I am a Liberal as much as a Tory’: Winston Churchill and the memory of 1906
Examination of how Churchill frequently summoned up the memories of 1906 to bolster his own position in politics.