1910-1929
Edward Grey reassessed
Review of T. G. Otte, Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (Allen Lane, 2020).
Vision in a time of crisis
Ernest Simon and the revitalising of Liberalism in the 1920s and 1930s.
T. Edmund Harvey
Liberal politician of conscience and one of only 16 MPs to have sat in the House of Commons in both world wars.
The language of elections
Review of Luke Blaxill, The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880–1914 (Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 2020).
Whitley and the Whitley Councils
Review of John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn and Richard Toye (eds.), Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J. H. Whitley (1866– 1935) – Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Routledge, 2018).
Another Madam Mayor
Lady Howard of Llanelli and the strange case of the Cowell-Stepneys.
Asquith versus Lloyd George
On 7 December 1916, H.H. Asquith was replaced as Prime Minister by David Lloyd George. The change followed mounting disquiet over the conduct of the First World War, and Lloyd George’s demands that a small committee, not including Asquith, should direct the war effort. Lloyd George forced the issue by resigning from the coalition government.…