1988-2010
Paddy Ashdown 1941–2018
Paddy Ashdown, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988–99, passed away on 22 December 2018. As a tribute to his memory, we reprint here in full the chapter on his time as leader from our 2015 book, British Liberal Leaders. We hope this may help to explain to those readers who did not know him why…
The governance of Europe
Review of Andrew Duff, On Governing Europe: A Federal Experiment (Spinelli Group, 2018).
Verhofstadt’s last chance
Review of Guy Verhofstadt, Europe’s Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union (Basic Books, 2017).
Shirley Williams, the SDP and Europe
Interview with Shirley Williams.
Liberals, free trade and Europe
From Cobden to the Common Market.
Liberals in Local Government 1967–2017
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group fringe meeting, Bournemouth, 17 September 2017, with Kath Pinnock, Tony Greaves, Richard Kemp, Sarah Bedford, Matt Cole and Ruth Dombey; chair: Andrew Stunell.
Lord Geraint of Ponterwyd
Biography of Geraint Howells.