1976-1988
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Ulster’s Liberal MP
Review of Ruth Illingworth, Sheelagh Murnaghan – Stormont’s only Liberal MP (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2019).
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Hampshire Liberals
Review of Martin Kyrle, Liberals in Hampshire: a part(l)y history, Part 4, Eastleigh 1978–85 (Sarsen Press, 2020).
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Why did the SDP fail?
Review of Patricia Lee Sykes, Losing from the Inside (2nd edn., Routledge, originally published 1989, republished 2018 as an e-book).
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The twisting path
Review of Tudor Jones, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism: from Jo Grimond to Brexit (2nd edn., Manchester University Press, 2019).
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The 1979 general election
Report of evening meeting, 3 February 2020 with David (Lord) Steel and Professor Sir John Curtice. Chair: Lord Wallace.
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Robert Maclennan (Lord Maclennan of Rogart)
A look back at the life and career of the third leader of the SDP.
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Anarchism and Liberalism 1880-1980
Some anarchists were successfully influential in liberal networks, starting with many New Liberal networks around the beginning of the 20th Century. My thesis focuses on this earlier period but I am interested in anarchist influences on liberalism throughout the twentieth century. If any readers can help with informing me of their own personal experiences of…