1929-1956
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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.
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The fighting parson
Biography of Rev Roderick Kedward MP (1881-1937).
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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.
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John and Barbara Hammond, 1872-1949 and 1873-1961
John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond (known as Lawrence) was born in 1872, the son of the Vicar of Drighlington in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Lucy Barbara Bradby (known as Barbara) was born in 1873, the daughter of the headmaster of Haileybury College. Married in 1901, the Hammonds had no children. They became pioneer social…
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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.