1895-1910
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Report: ‘Taxes that will bring forth fruit’ – The centenary of the People’s Budget of 1909
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at The National Liberal Club, 12 January 2009, with Kenneth O. Morgan and Vince Cable MP. Chair: Lord Wallace.
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Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith
Analysis of the uneasy political relationship between the two Liberal leaders.
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The two great wartime leaders
Review of Richard Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (Macmillan, 2007).
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Lloyd George’s Flintshire loyalist
The political achievement of John Herbert Lewis MP (1858-1933).
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‘Women’s rights and women’s duties’
Review of Ursula Masson, Women’s Rights and Women’s Duties: The Aberdare Women’s Liberal Association, 1891-1910 (South Wales Record Society, 2005).
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Blissful Dawn? The 1906 Election
On 7 February 1906, the counting of votes was completed in the 1906 general election, and the Liberal Party had obtained a majority of 132 over all other parties. In addition, for the first time, 29 Labour MPs were elected and shortly afterwards the Parliamentary Labour Party was founded. To mark this anniversary, the Corporation…
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Secular intellectuals
Review of William C. Lubenow, Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh (Boydell Press, 2010).
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The Lloyd George land taxes
A look at the history of the land taxes introduced by Lloyd George in the 1909 People’s Budget.