1910-1929
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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.
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A failure of leadership
Defections 1918-29. The post-First World War period saw many Liberals, including high-profile personalities such as Winston Churchill, decide that the time was right for them to change political parties.
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‘There are things stronger than parliamentary majorities
Review of Alan O’Day, Irish Home Rule 1867-1921 (Manchester University Press, 1998).
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Victory at Paisley
Asquith’s return to Parliament in 1920.
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Who did it?
Review of George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (Serif, 1997).
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Labour and the Liberal decline
Review of John Shepherd and Keith Laybourn, Britain’s First Labour Government (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).