1988-2010
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250 High Streets later…
Review of Mark D’Arcy & Rory Maclean, Nightmare! The Race to Become London’s Mayor (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
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More mirage than vision
Review of Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (University of Exeter Press, 2000).
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A progressive’s dilemma
In 1995, John Dickie, Liberal Democrat councillor in Camden and Federal Executive member, quit the party and joined Labour. Neil Stockley interviewed him on his defection.
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The 1988 leadership campaign
Following this year’s leadership election for the Liberal Democrats, Harriet Smith looks back to the party’s first such election.
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The watchword liberty
Review of, 50 Years On: A History of the Association of Liberal Democrat Trade Unionists, 1947-97 (Association of Liberal Democrat Trade Unionists, 1997).
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Old heroes for a new leader
Liberal Democrat leadership candidates describe their historical inspirations.
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Ending equidistance
Traces the story of the adoption and abandonment of the Liberal Democrat strategy of ‘equidistance’.
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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.