1929-1956
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Reviews: Issue 10
Reviews of Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party 1914-1935 (Collins, 1966); Michael and Eleanor Brock (eds.), H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley (Oxford University Press, 1982).
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Liberals and Europe
The development of the Liberal commitment to Europe, 1945-64.
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Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal Party and the abdication of King Edward VIII
How close were the Liberals to backing the King’s cause during the abdication crisis in December 1936?
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Liberal class warrior
The maverick career of the radical Liberal MP, Tom Horabin (1896-1956).
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The Liberal Party and the Popular Front
Assessment of the arguments over progressive unity in the 1930s, and Liberal and Labour responses.
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Impacts of reunification?
The electoral impact of a potential Liberal-National Liberal reunion in the 1940s.
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Keeper of the Liberal flame
The life of Ivor Davies (1915-1986), who would have been the Liberal candidate at the Oxford by-election in 1938.
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Battle of ideas or absence of leadership?
Analysis of the ideological struggle in the Liberal Party in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Sir Donald Maclean, 1864-1932
Sir Donald Maclean had greatness thrust upon him. Until 1918, everything in his career suggested that he was living a useful public life which would one day merit an obituary notice in The Times, but would hardly bring him into the first rank of politics – yet he was to play a critical and unexpected…