Articles
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A ‘prophet for the left’? Gladstone’s legacy 1809-2009
In the year of the 200th anniversary of his birth, what relevance has Gladstone to today’s politics?
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Debate: Holding the balance
An exchange of views between Duncan Brack and Roy Douglas on the desirability of a hung parliament and its possible impact on the Liberal Democrats.
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Interview: Cyril Smith
An interview with Sir Cyril Smith MBE, the larger-than-life former MP for Rochdale and Chief Whip.
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Liberal History News: Issue 65
A new regular feature in the Journal, reporting news of meetings, conferences, commemorations, dinners or any other event, together with anything else of contemporary interest to our readers.
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Letters to the Editor: Issue 65
Liberals in Schism – 1 (Dr Peter Hatton); Liberals in Schism – 2 (Paul Hunt); Campbell-Bannerman (Graham Lippiatt); The Mills and their world (Dr Alexander (Sandy) Waugh); Richard Holme (Trevor Jones); Correction.
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Celebrating 1859: Party, Patriotism and Liberal Values
On 6 June 1859, 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met at Willis’s Rooms in King Street, St. James’s. They gathered to agree on a strategy to oust Lord Derby’s Conservative government from office. Angus Hawkins analyses the significance of this key event in Liberal history.
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Using Wikipedia to Learn about Liberal History
Exploring the possibilities – and limitations – of using Wikipedia as a tool for researching Liberal history.
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Liberal History Quiz 2009 – Questions
This year’s Liberal history quiz attracted a fair amount of attention at the History Group’s exhibition stand at the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth in September. Here we reprint the questions.
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A Liberal without a Home: the Later Career of Leslie Hore-Belisha
In the simplistic and sometimes pernicious categorisations which have so often been applied to the political personalities of the 1930s – appeasers and anti-appeasers, a majority of dupes and a minority of the far-sighted, the decade’s Guilty Men and its isolated voices in the wilderness – Leslie Hore-Belisha has strong claims to be listed among…