1910-1929
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Lloyd George’s coalition proposal of 1910
and its impact on pre-war Liberalism.
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On this day 7-5-1920
The meeting was debating a resolution opposing continuance of the coalition government. Several members of the government were in attendance and when they attempted to defend their position they were constantly heckled. Matters came to a head when a junior minister, F. G. Kellaway asserted ‘I was fighting the Liberal cause when some of those…
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Herbert Henry Asquith (Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928
H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from April 1908 to December 1916, bore the chief part in some of the greatest Liberal achievements of the twentieth century. Herbert Henry Asquith was born at Morley, West Yorkshire, on 12 September 1852. His father died when he was eight, and in 1863, sent to London to live with…
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A Liberal partition
Review of Thomas Hennessey, Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition (Routledge, 1998).
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The party leader who never was
Review of Mark Pottle (ed.), Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1914-1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998).
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More mirage than vision
Review of Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (University of Exeter Press, 2000).
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I blame Sir Edward Grey
Review of John Charmley, Splendid Isolation? Britain and the Balance of Power 1874-1914 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999).
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Whigs, Liberals and History
Review of Victor Feske, From Belloc to Churchill: Private scholars, public culture and the crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
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Report: Dancing the Charleston again
Report of History Group meeting of November 1999, on Liberal/Labour relations during the 1918-31 period.