1895-1910
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Report: 1906 remembered
Scottish Liberal Club lecture, with Willis Pickard.
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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…
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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.
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Sir Alfred Mond (Lord Melchett), 1868-1930
Alfred Moritz Mond was born on 28 October 1868 at Parnworth, Lancashire, the younger son of Dr. Ludwig and Freda Mond. His father was a talented German Jew who had left Cassel in 1862 and who, together with John Tomlinson Brunner, set up the great chemical company which developed in 1881 into the public joint-stock…
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John Atkinson Hobson, 1858-1940
John Atkinson Hobson, the economic writer and radical journalist most associated (along with L. T. Hobhouse) with Edwardian New Liberalism was born in Derby on 6 July 1858, the second son of William and Josephine (ne Atkinson) Hobson. William Hobson was the proprietor of the Derbyshire Advertiser, to which his son later contributed, and was…
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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.