1956-1976
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Jeremy’s story
Review of Michael Bloch, Jeremy Thorpe (Little, Brown, 2014).
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Eric Lubbock and the Orpington moment
A commemoration of the victor of the 1962 Orpington by-election.
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Report: Community politics and the Liberal revival
Conference fringe meeting held jointly with the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors, 13 March 2015.
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Emlyn Hooson
An examination of the life and career of the Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, 1962–79.
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Assessing Jeremy Thorpe
Four views on Jeremy Thorpe’s record and character.
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On this day 25-9-1970
The Liberal Party assembly at Eastbourne passes by 348 votes to 236 a Young Liberal amendment, moved by Tony Greaves, to a motion on party strategy and tactics calling for a dual approach to politics, acting both inside and outside the institutions of the political establishment, and stating that the role of Liberal activists was to organise…
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It’s Boy David
Review of David Torrance, David Steel: Rising Hope to Elder Statesman (Biteback Publishing, 2012).
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Friends and allies
Review of Ian Hunter (ed.), Winston and Archie: The Letters of Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston S. Churchill (Politico’s, 2005).
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‘His presence generated electricity’
Review of Peter Barberis, Liberal Lion, Jo Grimond: A Political Life (I.B. Tauris, 2005).