1929-1956
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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 Frank Medlicott (1903-72)
The life and political career of a Liberal and Liberal National MP and activist.
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Liberal Nadir, 1935-56
The 1935 General Election was a catastrophic defeat for the Liberals. The number of MPs for the party was reduced to 19, 12 of whom had majorities of less than 2,000, seven less than 1,000. The party's leader, Herbert Samuel, former Cabinet Minister and Governor-General of Palestine, was defeated at Darwen in Lancashire; other leading…
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The Liberal Nationals
The Liberal National group was officially formed on 5 October 1931; two days before the commencement of the election campaign, which saw the Liberals enter the polls as three distinct groups.
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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…