1976-1988
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Report: from Beveridge to Blair
Report of LDHG meeting of September 1997 on the welfare state, with Frank Field MP and Nick Timmins.
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A Party for what?
Review of Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party (Oxford University Press, 1995).
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Richard Holme on the merger negotiations
My recollections of the process which led to the merger of the Liberal Party and the SDP are hazy since I am not a diary-keeper. Nor can I give anything but an outsider's view of the formal merger negotiations since, to my chagrin at the time, I was not elected to be a member of…
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The slow death of Liberal Wales 1906 – 1979
The story of Liberalism in Wales 1906 – 1979.
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The flawed strategy of the SDP
Argues that the SDP ultimately failed because its strategy was fundamentally flawed.
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One of nature’s Liberals
Biography of Sir Clement Freud, Liberal MP 1973-87.
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The growth of Liberal International
The development of global cooperation between Liberal parties.
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What went wrong at Darlington?
Original memo on the 1983 by-election disaster, plus commentary.
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Rise … the SDP 1983-85
Original cartoons from the Social Democrat illustrate what was perhaps the party’s happiest years.