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New, updated to spring 2020!
This page is for bulk orders of 40 copies or more of this booklet – ideal as a gift for new party members, for example. We offer a 50 per cent discount for bulk orders – £1 instead of £2 per copy.
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350 years of party history in 32 pages
The Liberal Democrat History Group’s booklet, Liberal History: A concise history of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats is the essential introduction to Liberal history.
Starting with the earliest stirrings of Liberal thought during the civil wars of the seventeenth century, the booklet takes the reader through the emergence of the Whigs; the growth of radical thought; the coming together of Whigs, radicals and free-trade Peelites in 1859 to form the Liberal Party; the ascendancy of the Victorian Liberals under Gladstone; the New Liberalism of Asquith and Lloyd George and the party’s landslide election victory in 1906; dissension during the First World War and the party’s eclipse by Labour afterwards; the long decades of decline until nadir in the 1950s; successive waves of Liberal revival under Grimond, Thorpe and Steel; the alliance with the SDP and merger in 1988; and the roller-coaster ride of the Liberal Democrats, from near-obliteration in 1989 to entry into government in 2010 to electoral disaster in 2015 and, now, the first signs of recovery. Up to date as of spring 2020.
Full price £2; 50% discount for bulk orders of 40 copies or more.
This page is for bulk orders of 40 copies or more of this booklet – ideal as a gift for new party members, for example. We offer a 50 per cent discount for bulk orders – £1 instead of £2 per copy.
To order smaller numbers, see here.
350 years of party history in 32 pages
The Liberal Democrat History Group’s booklet, Liberal History: A concise history of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats is the essential introduction to Liberal history.
Starting with the earliest stirrings of Liberal thought during the civil wars of the seventeenth century, the booklet takes the reader through the emergence of the Whigs; the growth of radical thought; the coming together of Whigs, radicals and free-trade Peelites in 1859 to form the Liberal Party; the ascendancy of the Victorian Liberals under Gladstone; the New Liberalism of Asquith and Lloyd George and the party’s landslide election victory in 1906; dissension during the First World War and the party’s eclipse by Labour afterwards; the long decades of decline until nadir in the 1950s; successive waves of Liberal revival under Grimond, Thorpe and Steel; the alliance with the SDP and merger in 1988; and the roller-coaster ride of the Liberal Democrats, from near-obliteration in 1989 to entry into government in 2010 to electoral disaster in 2015 and, now, the first signs of recovery. Up to date as of spring 2020.
Full price £2; 50% discount for bulk orders of 40 copies or more.
Year of Publication: 2020
Published by the Liberal Democrat History Group
