Articles
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The First World War and Liberal values
Was the Liberal Party fatally wounded by the war because liberalism proved incapable of coping with the strains of a major modern conflict? Professor Chris Wrigley questions the accepted view.
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The Peacemaker
How many people know that the first British recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize was a Liberal MP? This article charts the political career of William Randal Cremer (1828-1908).
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‘Exchange goods, not bombs’
Free trade was one of the cornerstones of the Victorian Liberal Party. This article examines the Liberal record on trade from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the Uruguay Round.
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What influences Liberal Democrats?
John Stuart Mill, Jo Grimond, green economists and the Suez crisis, according to this Liberal Democrat History Group survey of formative influences on leading Liberal Democrat politicians.
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Education – back to our roots
Policy retrospective: Liberal education policy since the nineteenth century.
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Gladstone, Marx and modern progressives
Examination of the relationship between Karl Marx and William Ewart Gladstone, between revolutionary Marxism and reformist Gladstonian Liberalism.
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The legacy of Gladstone
The Grand Old Man’s record.
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What is Liberal Democracy? The importance of history IV
What is Liberal Democracy? Part IV.
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1945-1964: The gory, gory years
The survival and development of the Liberal Party in the post-war era.