Articles
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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…
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Liberal History Quiz 2009 – Answers
The answers to this year’s Liberal history quiz at the History Group’s exhibition stand at the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth in September.
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Letters to the Editor: issue 66
The 1906 election, and Sir Charles Grey MP (Sandy S. Waugh); Margaret Wintringham (Graem Peters); Albert McElroy (Graham Lippiatt)
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Liberal History News: Issue 66
Gladstone bicentenary; Gladstone and Bulgaria; Gladstone bicentenary event in Edinburgh; What would Gladstone think?; New on the History Group website
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Violet and Clem
Examination of the relationship between Liberal leader Clement Davies and Lady Violet Bonham Carter.
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Helen Suzman: An Appreciation
Personal recollection of the life of South Africa’s first anti-apartheid MP.