Articles
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L. T. Hobhouse and J. A. Hobson: New Liberal influence on Third Way ideas
What did Tony Blair draw from the New Liberalism of the Hobhouse and Hobson?
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The development of the New Liberalism as a philosophy of transition
The philosophy that underpinned the Liberal Party’s revival in the 1906 election.
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Problems of continuity
The 1906 general election and foreign policy
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Beveridge in person
An encounter with Lord Beveridge.
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1945-1964: The gory, gory years
The survival and development of the Liberal Party in the post-war era.
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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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‘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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July-August 1914: Achieving the seemingly impossible
British entry into the war offered the first test of Liberal values and of the calibre of Prime Minister Asquith. Examination of the events surrounding the declaration of war on 4 August 1914.