Journal of Liberal History

England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

For the discussion and research of Liberal, Liberal Democrat and SDP history

1910-1929

  • Liberal Party funding between the wars

    One of the major problems facing the Liberal Party in the inter-war period was the lack of funds that they had at their disposal. As the Party became increasingly defunct, so it became impossible to attract the wealthy donors, who formed the foundation of the Liberal finances.

  • The New Liberalism

    The disaster of the 1895 election, when the Liberals lost almost a hundred seats, struck a mortal blow at Rosebery's leadership and pointed to the urgent need for a new direction. Although for some it was the party's abandonment of its historic principles of self-help, voluntaryism and constitutional reform that lay at fault, to others…

  • Holding the balance

    The record of the Liberal Party in hung parliaments in 1924, 1929-31 and 1977-78.

  • 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.

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