1929-1956
A new economic policy for the Liberal Party?: 21st March 2025
In the 1929 election campaign, Lloyd George, as leader of a Liberal Party reunited after years of dissension and decline, put forward the eye-catching slogan: ‘We can conquer unemployment’. The slogan was backed by the ‘Yellow Book’ (Britain’s Industrial Future) with its new and distinctive approach to policy based on the ideas of the famous…
A new economic policy for the Liberal Party?
In the 1929 election campaign, Lloyd George, as leader of a Liberal Party reunited after years of dissension and decline, put forward the eye-catching slogan: ‘We can conquer unemployment’. The slogan was backed by the ‘Yellow Book’ (Britain’s Industrial Future) with its new and distinctive approach to policy based on the ideas of the famous…
Friends or Enemies, Allies or Competitors? Liberals and Labour 1903–2019: 15th September 2024
The history of the association between the Liberal Party / Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party features electoral pacts (both formal and informal), support for minority governments, participation in coalitions – and periods of bitter enmity. So are Liberals and Labour friends or enemies, allies or competitors? The long and complex relationship between Liberals and…
Law and politics
Review of Neil Hickman, An Analytical Study of Lord Hewart: Despotism Renewed, Hewart Unburied (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2024)
Finnish Liberalism between the wars
An examination of the history of the National Progressive Party of Finland in the interwar period
Friends or Enemies, Allies or Competitors? Liberals and Labour 1903–2019
The history of the association between the Liberal Party / Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party features electoral pacts (both formal and informal), support for minority governments, participation in coalitions – and periods of bitter enmity. So are Liberals and Labour friends or enemies, allies or competitors? The long and complex relationship between Liberals and…
Liberal Party, empire and commonwealth, 1900–1979
A perspective through election manifestos
‘Like the early Christians in Rome’
Have Liberal Lords been so isolated and powerless?; by Matt Cole