England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

1910-1929

  • Hold on, hold out; we are coming

    Violet Bonham Carter’s speech after the 1920 Paisley by-election.

  • One Liberal’s war

    The First World War tore the Liberal Party apart. David Dutton looks at how one Liberal MP lived through the conflict.

  • The first woman Liberal MP

    The life and political career of the first woman Liberal MP, Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955).

  • Lloyd George and the suffragettes at Llanystumdwy

    A re-examination of the reopening by Lloyd George in September 1912 of the village institute at his native Llanystumdwy, when the proceedings were blighted by constant suffragette interruptions.

  • The Liberal Party and the Great War

    Introduction to this special issue of the Newsletter.

  • July-August 1914: Achieving the seemingly impossible

    British entry into the war offered the first test of Liberal values and of the calibre of Prime Minister Asquith. Examination of the events surrounding the declaration of war on 4 August 1914.

  • Reviews: Issue 10

    Reviews of Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party 1914-1935 (Collins, 1966); Michael and Eleanor Brock (eds.), H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley (Oxford University Press, 1982).

  • Asquith and Lloyd George: common misunderstandings

    The rivalry between Asquith and Lloyd George grew out of the Great War. This article argues that the points of similarity between the two were at least as important as their differences.

  • The Liberals and Ireland 1912-1916

    Liberal ministers had to deal with more than the Great War during the period 1914-18. Examination of the Liberal record on the Irish Question during this critical period.