1929-1956
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British intellectual life, 1918-39
Review of Richard Overy, The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars (Allen Lane, 2009).
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A Liberal without a Home: the Later Career of Leslie Hore-Belisha
In the simplistic and sometimes pernicious categorisations which have so often been applied to the political personalities of the 1930s – appeasers and anti-appeasers, a majority of dupes and a minority of the far-sighted, the decade’s Guilty Men and its isolated voices in the wilderness – Leslie Hore-Belisha has strong claims to be listed among…
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Review: How the Liberal Party fared 1939-45
Review of Andrew Thorpe, Parties at War: Political Organisation in Second World War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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Review: A neglected party
Review of David Dutton, Liberals in Schism – A History of the National Liberal Party (I. B. Tauris, 2008).
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The yellow glass ceiling: the mystery of the disappearing Liberal women MPs
Only six women ever sat as Liberal MPs, and most only for very short periods. This article examines why.
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Coalition in the archives
The papers of Liberal activist Frances Josephy are used to examine the attitudes of ordinary Liberals to coalitions in the 1920s and 1930s.
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The final quest for Liberal reunion 1943-46
History of the attempts to reunite the Liberal Nationals with the official Liberal Party in the 1940s.
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Liberalism and Unionist Northern Ireland
1921 – 1971: despite all the obstacles, Liberalism survived in Northern Ireland after partitition.
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Local history: Wembley Young Liberals in the 1950s
Alan Knight on being active in the Wembley North Young Liberals in the early 1950s.