1910-1929
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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.
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Secular intellectuals
Review of William C. Lubenow, Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh (Boydell Press, 2010).
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The strange case of Edward Hemmerde
David Dutton traces the story of the three-times MP, playwright and judge Edward Hemmerde (1871-1948).