Articles
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The Inverness turning point
How the Liberals’ near-miss in the Inverness by-election of 1954 proved a turning point in the party’s fortunes.
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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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Labour, the Liberal Party and the Great War
The Great War laid many of the foundations for Labour’s supplanting of the Liberals in the subsequent decade. Analysis of the relationship between the two parties during the war.
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Asquith and Lloyd George: common misunderstandings
The rivalry between Asquith and Lloyd George grew out of the Great War. This article argues that the points of similarity between the two were at least as important as their differences.
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The Lloyd George land taxes
A look at the history of the land taxes introduced by Lloyd George in the 1909 People’s Budget.
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Crisis, coalition and cuts
An analysis of the parallels between the formation of the coalition governments in 1931 and 2010.
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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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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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Biography: David Owen
The political career and record of Dr David Owen.