1910-1929
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Inter-war decline
The Liberals were a political casualty of the Great War – emerging from the conflict as a divided party, whose key ideological beliefs had been sacrificed to meet the needs of modern warfare.
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Asquith and Grey at the Reform Club, December 1916
Speeches delivered by H. H. Asquith and Viscount Grey of Fallodon at the Reform Club, London on Friday 8 December 1916, following Asquith’s resignation as Prime Minister.
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The Fall of the Lloyd George Coalition
The summer 2003 History Group meeting examined the events which brought an end to the last peacetime participation by the Liberal Party in UK government – when Lloyd George’s coalition was overthrown by a revolt of backbench Conservatives in 1922. The meeting was held jointly with the Conservative History Group.
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The flight from the Liberal Party
Liberals who joined the Labour Party, 1914-31.
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Edwardian Liberalism
Review of H. V. Emy, Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics, 1892-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1973; reprinted 2008).
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The Liberal Party and womens suffrage, 1866-1918
Analysis of the relationship between the Liberal Party and the campaigns for womens suffrage.
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The Glyndwr manuscripts
The Glyndwr collection at the Denbighshire Record Office throws light on the fortunes of the local Liberal Party in the 1920s and ’30s.
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The rank and file and the Liberal government ‘crisis’ of 1912: a note
One activist’s reaction to the key issues facing the Liberal government in 1912.
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Individualist thought and radicalism
Josiah C. Wedgwood’s battle against the collectivists, 1906 – 1914.