1929-1956
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The 1931 general election
The National Government was formed in August 1931, following the failure of Ramsay Macdonald's minority Labour administration to deal with the mounting unemployment that was paralysing Britain. The Conservatives had been pressing for the adoption of protection throughout the proceeding period and the public were becoming increasingly frustrated by the apparent ineffectiveness of the free…
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Inter-war decline
The Liberals were a political casualty of the Great War – emerging from the conflict as a divided party, whose key ideological beliefs had been sacrificed to meet the needs of modern warfare.
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Clement Davies Liberal Party Saviour?
Clement Davies led the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956. During that time, the party came very close to dying out but it survived. He turned down Churchills offer of a government position and in so doing preserved the partys integrity. His tenure was as long as that of Jo Grimond, the hero of modern…
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Liberalism and the National Government, 1931-40
An examination of the impact of the National Government on the Liberal Party.
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The flight from the Liberal Party
Liberals who joined the Labour Party, 1914-31.
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The Glyndwr manuscripts
The Glyndwr collection at the Denbighshire Record Office throws light on the fortunes of the local Liberal Party in the 1920s and ’30s.
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Liberals and the 1945 election (2)
Review of Peter Joyce, The Liberal Party and the 1945 General Election (Liberal Democrat History Group, Sept. 1995).
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Last of the Midland radicals
Biography of Sir Geoffrey Mander, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, 1929-45.
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A real triumph for my old friend
The occasion when The Times took at face value an imaginary interview with David Lloyd George.