1910-1929
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Eleanor Acland, 1878-1933
Eleanor Acland was born Eleanor Margaret Cropper in Westmoreland in 1878, into a family with political connections. Her paternal grandfather, Sir James Cropper, was Liberal MP for Kendal from 1880 to 1885, while her maternal grandfather was Lord Knutsford who had been a Conservative MP and secretary to the colonies from 1887 to 1892. After…
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Asquith vs. Lloyd George
Report of evening meeting (online), 1 February 2021, with David Laws and Damian Collins MP; chair, Wendy Chamberlain MP.
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Lloyd George, the Liberal Summer Schools and electoral politics in the 1920s
An examination of the role the Liberal Summer Schools played in the electoral record of the Liberal Party in the 1920s.
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Bertha Bowness Fischer
‘One of the most effective and most welcome workers.’ An examination of the career of the first female Liberal political agent.
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Rosebery’s son
Review of Martin Gibson, A Primrose Path: The gilded life of Lord Rosebery’s favourite son (Arum Press, 2020).