Articles
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The black widow effect
Why Britain’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition might have an unhappy ending.
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God gave the land to the people
The origins of the Liberal Land Song.
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Report: 1974 remembered
Report of the History Group meeting of September 1999, on the 1974 elections, with Tim Beaumont, Viv Bingham, Sir Cyril Smith, Paul Tyler MP and Richard Wainwright.
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‘Crinks’ Johnstone
The career of the Right Honourable Harcourt Johnstone (1895-1945).
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Simon and Southwark, Bermondsey
Analysis of how Simon Hughes came to be selected for the apparently unwinnable seat of Southwark, Bermondsey.
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Gladstone and the Irish question
Gladstone tried repeatedly to resolve the problem of Ireland. This article argues that his efforts were doomed to failure because of his own prejudices and preconceptions.
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Lord Rea
The career of Philip Russell Rea, (1900-81), the Liberal leader in the Lords in the 1950s and 60s.
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The newcomer
The story of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray’s spirited performance on the Oxford hustings in 1857.
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Churchill, Clement Davies and the Ministry of Education
Examination of the offer of a cabinet position to the Liberal leader Clement Davies in October 1951.