1895-1910
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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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1906: Blissful dawn?
Lecture to the Corporation of London, February 2006.
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Joseph Chamberlain, 1836-1914
In a picture postcard (Tuck & Sons Ltd, c. 1905) Radical Joseph was pictured wearing a coat of many colours. Each segment was labelled with different stages in his political career: socialist, extreme radical, Gladstonian, Liberal Unionist, Conservative and protectionist and food taxer. Inconsistent was one of the more favourable epithets used of Chamberlain. To…
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Christopher Addison (Lord Addison), 1869-1951
When in November 1918 Lloyd George promised to make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in, it fell to Christopher Addison to formulate and carry out the policy through which homes would be provided for the men returning from the Great War. The Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919, under which local authorities…
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Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1836-1908
There have been four Liberals at the head of clearly Liberal governments – Gladstone, Rosebery, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith. Three of them are well-known names. Yet of the four, ‘CB’ was far and away the best party leader. […]
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Biography: Lewis Harcourt
The life and career of Lewis ‘Loulou’ Harcourt.