1910-1929
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847-1929
Millicent Fawcett, a radical and pioneering feminist, is best known as the leader of the suffragists, the constitutional campaigners for women’s votes. Born in Aldeburgh on 11 June 1847, Millicent Garrett was the eighth of the 11 children born to businessman Newson Garrett and his wife Louisa, neé Dunnell. Her father, a Liberal, encouraged political…
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Lloyd George and the 1922 Committee
The meeting that brought Lloyd George down; by Alistair Lexden
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The Lloyd George coalition governments: labour and industrial relations
Chris Wrigley examines what the Lloyd George governments achieved for labour and industrial relations
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The Odd Couple
Lloyd George, Austen Chamberlain and the post-war coalition, 1918–22; by David Dutton
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A Prime Minister of the left in coalition with the right
Lloyd George and the Unionists, 1918–22; by Alistair Lexden.
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Lloyd George, the Liberal crisis, and the Unionist Party during the First World War
Did Lloyd George ‘abandon Liberalism’ in the face of war? Matthew Johnson examines the evidence.
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Lloyd George and the hard-faced men, 1918–22
Kenneth O. Morgan surveys the record of Lloyd George’s peacetime coalition government.
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Christabel and the Liberals
Review of June Purvis, Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography (Routledge, 2018)
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The Strange Death of Liberal England Revisited
George Dangerfield’s The Strange Death of Liberal England, published in 1935, became one of the most influential accounts of the Liberal Party’s demise as a party of government. Dangerfield claimed that by ‘the end of 1913 Liberal England was reduced to ashes’ by three forms of political turbulence and upheaval: the threat of civil…