1910-1929
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We Can Conquer Unemployment
The subject of the meeting was the influence of Keynes’s and Lloyd George’s Yellow Book on the problems of conquering unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s. With one of the major policy paper debates at Brighton that year being on Employment Policy, this provided us with a chance to trace the development of Liberal/Liberal Democrat…
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The King of Showland
The unusual career of the entertainment entrepreneur and Liberal MP for Walsall, 1922-24, Pat Collins.
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The coalition of 1915-1916
Prelude to disaster: an examination of the Asquith coalition of 1915-16, which brought to an end the last solely Liberal government.
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A Liberal in power
Review of Roy Jenkins, Asquith (Collins, 1964).
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War memoirs
Report of Andrew Suttie, Rewriting the First World War: Lloyd George, Politics and Strategy 1914-18 (Palgrave, 2005).
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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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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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Hilaire Belloc and the Liberal revival
Distributism – an alternative Liberal tradition?
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How did the Empire strike back?
The impact of imperialism on democracy and liberalism in Britrain 1865-1920.