1956-1976
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Report: why didn’t the Liberal Party die?
Report of LDHG meeting of March 1997 on the near death and survival of the Liberal Party in the 1950s and ’60s, with William Wallace.
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The election of Jeremy Thorpe to the Liberal leadership
The first phase of the Liberal postwar revival came to an end with the resignation of Jo Grimond as leader. Tim Beaumont recalls the election of his successor.
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Young Liberal influence and its effects, 1970-74
Young Liberals provided the Liberal Party with activists, candidates and radical ideas. This article examines the YL record of the early 1970s.
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The Sutton & Cheam by-election
The Sutton & Cheam by-election was won for the Liberal Party in December 1972. Jennifer Tankard interviews the victor, Graham (now Lord) Tope.
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Abortion reform 1967
Memories of the battles over one of the key pieces of social reform legislation of the 1960s.
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The lessons of Orpington
Analysis of the importance of the by-election result for the Liberal Party.
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Fighting Orpington
The stunning by-election victory of Orpington in 1962 was the high point of the first Liberal revival. Eric Lubbock (now Lord Avebury) was the candidate.
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Jo Grimond’s leadership of the Liberal Party
‘The personification and the hope of postwar Liberalism.’ The record of Jo Grimond.
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1959-74: years of Liberal revolution?
Introduction to this special issue on the Liberal postwar revival.