1910-1929
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The Liberal Party and peace-making: Versailles and the League of Nations
Liberalism’s final test stemming from the Great War was its attitude towards peace. Richard S. Grayson finds the party’s record wanting.
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The First World War and Liberal values
Was the Liberal Party fatally wounded by the war because liberalism proved incapable of coping with the strains of a major modern conflict? Professor Chris Wrigley questions the accepted view.
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‘He would not stoop, he did not conquer’
Review of Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery (Phoenix, 1995).
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Report: ‘We can conquer unemployment’
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group conference fringe meeting of September 1994, on the Liberal approach to unemployment in the 1920s and ’30s, with Lord Skidelsky.
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The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration 1886-1929
Review of G. R. Searle, The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration 1886-1929 (Macmillan, 1992).
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The Liberal Party and the constitution
Argues that the Liberals regarded the 1911 Parliament Act as a final settlement of the second-chamber question.
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Life with Lloyd George
A. J. Sylvester’s Life with Lloyd George remains a unique source of information. This article examines its preparation, publication and impact.
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Edwardian Liberalism: ideology and political practice
Review of Ian Packer, Liberal Government and Politics, 1905-15 (Palgrave, 2006).
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War memoirs
Report of Andrew Suttie, Rewriting the First World War: Lloyd George, Politics and Strategy 1914-18 (Palgrave, 2005).