Articles
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The farm workers champion
Biography of one of the first working men to be elected to Parliament, Joseph Arch (1826-1919).
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Sir Jerom Murch and the civic gospel in Victorian Bath
Analysis of the municipal record of the leader of Bath’s Victorian Liberals.
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Value for money
The story of novelist Anthony Trollope’s campaign for Beverley in Yorkshire in 1868.
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Hold on, hold out; we are coming
Violet Bonham Carter’s speech after the 1920 Paisley by-election.
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One Liberal’s war
The First World War tore the Liberal Party apart. David Dutton looks at how one Liberal MP lived through the conflict.
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The Lord Chancellor who never was
Biography of the leading Liberal lawyer Norman Birkett (1883-1962).
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What might have been
Interview with John Pardoe, Liberal MP for North Cornwall, 1966-79.
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The first woman Liberal MP
The life and political career of the first woman Liberal MP, Margaret Wintringham (1879-1955).
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Exploding the delusion of protection
A speech made by Richard Cobden in March 1845, near the climax of the campaign to abolish the Corn Laws.