1956-1976
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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.
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The Liberal predicament, 1945-64
How, despite the desperate state of their party, many Liberals kept the faith going at the nadir of the Liberal Party’s fortunes.
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Red Guard versus Old Guard? The influence of the Young Liberal movement on the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 1970s a witness seminar
In the 1960s and early 1970s the press coined the phrase the “Red Guard” to describe the radical politics of the youth wing of the Liberal Party. At the 1966 Party Conference in Brighton, the Red Guard sponsored an anti-NATO resolution. Over the next decade the YLs were active on a number of foreign policy…