1910-1929
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Hold on, hold out; we are coming
Violet Bonham Carter’s speech after the 1920 Paisley by-election.
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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.
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The first woman Liberal MP
The life and political career of the first woman Liberal MP, Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955).
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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.
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The Liberal Party and the Great War
Introduction to this special issue of the Newsletter.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.