1910-1929
The Liberal Party and the First World War
A one-day conference organised by the Journal of Liberal History and Kings College, London.
Liberal defectors identified and explored
Review of Alun Wyburn-Powell, Defectors and the Liberal Party, 1910-2010: A Study of Inter-Party Relations (Manchester University Press, 2012).
You don’t have to be mad to work there, but …
Review of J. B. Williams, Worsted to Westminster: The Extraordinary Life of Rev. Dr Charles Leach MP (Darcy Press, 2009).
Son of Asquith?
Review of Bobbie Neate, Conspiracy of Secrets (John Blake, 2012).
Elegant and concise
Review of David Dutton, A History of the Liberal Party Since 1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition, 2013).
Decline and fall: the Liberal Party and the elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924
Report of a Liberal Democrat History Group meeting, February 2014, with Michael Steed, Professor Pat Thane and Dr Julie Smith.
Liberalism, Peace and the First World War
The First World War sent a shockwave through the Liberal Party, permanently affecting its politics, its people and the way it viewed the world and its own place in it. This meeting, jointly organised by the Liberal Democrat History Group and Liberal International British Group and held a hundred years, almost to the day, after…