1976-1988
Consolation government?
Review of Bernard Donoughue, Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in Number 10 (Jonathan Cape, 2008).
Helen Suzman: An Appreciation
Personal recollection of the life of South Africa’s first anti-apartheid MP.
Biography: David Owen
The political career and record of Dr David Owen.
… and decline: the SDP 1985-87
Original cartoons from the Social Democrat illustrate the run-up to the 1987 election.
What went wrong at Darlington?
Original memo on the 1983 by-election disaster, plus commentary.
One of nature’s Liberals
Biography of Sir Clement Freud, Liberal MP 1973-87.
The flawed strategy of the SDP
Argues that the SDP ultimately failed because its strategy was fundamentally flawed.