1988-2010
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Report: Liberal Democrats in Europe – 21 years of success or failure?
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference, Harrogate, 6 March 2009, with William Wallace and Sarah Ludford MEP. Chair Tony Little.
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Helen Suzman: An Appreciation
Personal recollection of the life of South Africa’s first anti-apartheid MP.
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New Radicalism
… and the Liberal Democat Whig tendency.
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Blair and Ashdown
Notes on a political relationship.
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Liberal thought
Review of Kevin Hickson (ed.), The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945 (Manchester University Press, 2009).
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Policy and ideology
Review of Tudor Jones, The Revival of British Liberalism – From Grimond to Clegg (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
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Liberals and local government in London since the 1970s
Winning local elections has been a keystone in Liberal (Democrat) success in the years since the adoption of the community politics strategy at the Eastbourne Assembly in 1970. There have been many spectacular advances across London, from the heartland of the south western boroughs to Southwark, Islington and more recently breakthroughs on Camden and Brent…
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Salad days: merger twenty years on
Twenty years ago a new political party was born from the merger of the Liberal and Social Democratic parties the Social & Liberal Democrats (or Salads, as the party was disparagingly nicknamed by its opponents). This meeting will explore the political background to the merger and the byzantine process of negotiation through which it which…
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Liberal Democrats in Europe, 21 years of success or failure?
The Liberal Party and the SDP were the most pro-European of the British political parties. So how has their successor party fared in European politics since merger in 1988? How has the party adapted to the wide range of liberal thought represented by our sister parties in ALDE and ELDR? Speakers: Graham Watson MEP (Leader…