1929-1956
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‘My God, they have given us everything’
Review of Ann Shukman, 44 Days in Prague: The Runciman Mission and the Race to Save Europe (C. Hurst & Co., 2024).
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Friends or Enemies, Allies or Competitors? Liberals and Labour 1903–2019
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group fringe meeting, 15 September 2024, with David Laws and Jim Wallace. Chair: Wendy Chamberlain MP.
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The National Liberal Party
Introduction to Liberal history series.
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A new economic policy for the Liberal Party?: 21st March 2025
In the 1929 election campaign, Lloyd George, as leader of a Liberal Party reunited after years of dissension and decline, put forward the eye-catching slogan: ‘We can conquer unemployment’. The slogan was backed by the ‘Yellow Book’ (Britain’s Industrial Future) with its new and distinctive approach to policy based on the ideas of the famous…
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A new economic policy for the Liberal Party?
In the 1929 election campaign, Lloyd George, as leader of a Liberal Party reunited after years of dissension and decline, put forward the eye-catching slogan: ‘We can conquer unemployment’. The slogan was backed by the ‘Yellow Book’ (Britain’s Industrial Future) with its new and distinctive approach to policy based on the ideas of the famous…
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Friends or Enemies, Allies or Competitors? Liberals and Labour 1903–2019: 15th September 2024
The history of the association between the Liberal Party / Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party features electoral pacts (both formal and informal), support for minority governments, participation in coalitions – and periods of bitter enmity. So are Liberals and Labour friends or enemies, allies or competitors? The long and complex relationship between Liberals and…
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Law and politics
Review of Neil Hickman, An Analytical Study of Lord Hewart: Despotism Renewed, Hewart Unburied (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2024)