1910-1929

Left, right: December 1916 – The forward march of Liberals halted

Was the disastrous Liberal split of 1916 a matter of personalities or ideologies?
Land taxing and the Liberals, 1879 – 1914

Why did the Liberals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries care so much about the land question in general, and land value taxation in particular?
The fall of the Lloyd George Coalition

Report of the joint Liberal Democrat History Group/Conservative History Group meeting of July 2003, with Margaret Macmillan, Andrew Thorpe, John Barnes and Stuart Ball.
The Young Scots Society

The story of the influence of Scottish young Liberals before and after the Great War.
The single-taxers and the future of Liberalism, 1906-1914

Analysis of what was hailed, in the early years of the twentieth century, as the radical alternative to collectivism and even the New Liberalism.
Asquith, the third home rule bill and the Easter Rising

1910 – 1916: the Liberal Government came close to granting Ireland Home Rule in 1914. This article examines why it failed and what happened after.
Lloyd George and the partition of Ireland

1916 – 1921: analysis of Lloyd George’s answer to the Irish Question after the Easter Rising.
Liberalism and Unionist Northern Ireland

1921 – 1971: despite all the obstacles, Liberalism survived in Northern Ireland after partitition.
Liberal unity frustrated

Why the Liberal Party failed to patch up effectively its first major post-war split, between the supporters of Asquith and those of Lloyd George.

Journal of Liberal History

1910-1929