1956-1976
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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).
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The forgotten leader
Review of Alan Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies: Liberal Leader (Politico’s, 2003).
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Too short a history
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 (Palgrave, 2002).
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Community politics and the Liberal revival
The famous community politics resolution, adopted by the Liberal Party at its 1970 Assembly, helped to lay the foundations for revival after the party’s loss of half its seats in the 1970 election.
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The Liberals in Hampshire: Martin Kyrle’s reminiscences
Review of Martin Kyrle, The Liberals in Hampshire – a Part(l)y History Part 1: Southampton 1958–65 (Sarsen Press, 2013).
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The strange survival of Liberal Lancashire
An examination of the resilience of the Liberal Party in the Lancashire cotton districts between the 1920s and 1970s.
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Remembering Jeremy Thorpe
A commemoration of the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe, who passed away in December 2014.
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It’s Boy David
Review of David Torrance, David Steel: Rising Hope to Elder Statesman (Biteback Publishing, 2012)