England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

1929-1956

  • Report: Torrington ’58 – Liberal survival and revival, 1945-79

    Report of full-day seminar, with LSE, 14 June 2008.

  • The two great wartime leaders

    Review of Richard Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (Macmillan, 2007).

  • Liberals and the 1945 election (1)

    Review of Malcolm Baines, The Liberal Party and the 1945 General Election (Contemporary Record 9:1, Summer 1995).

  • Life with Lloyd George

    A. J. Sylvester’s Life with Lloyd George remains a unique source of information. This article examines its preparation, publication and impact.

  • Learning the lessons of history: Liberalism in the 1930s

    What can Liberal Democrats learn from the Liberal Party’s positions in the 1930s?

  • The Inverness turning point

    How the Liberals’ near-miss in the Inverness by-election of 1954 proved a turning point in the party’s fortunes.

  • Dingle Foot, 1905-1978

    Throughout Britain, particular constituencies and cities have had a long connection with certain families – for instance, the Chamberlains in Birmingham and the Cecils in south Dorset. In Plymouth, politics has been dominated by the Foot family, principally Isaac Foot but also four of his five sons. These include Hugh (later Lord Caradon), John, and the…

  • John Maynard Keynes (Lord Keynes), 1883-1946

    Maynard Keynes was an active Liberal as well as one of the most important liberal writers of the twentieth century. He revolutionised economics, creating the case for deficit spending to stimulate employment which became the basis of government economic policy throughout the Western world for almost four decades. He helped to found the international economic…

  • Elliott Dodds, 1889-1977

    Elliott Dodds lived a life of rich variety and contrast. A southerner by birth, he became indelibly associated with the laissez-faire Liberalism of the northern counties. A journalist, whose political beliefs were breathed into every corner of the Huddersfield Examiner, he wrote extensively throughout his life on the changing relationship between individual liberty and the…