Themes: Elections
Report: Election 2005 in historical perspective
with John Curtice, Andrew Russell and Chris Rennard.
Disappointment or bridgehead?
Liberal Democrat performance in the 2005 election.
The Liberal Party and general elections
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group meeting of February 2003, with David Butler and Neil Stockley.
The 2001 election
Examination of the Liberal Democrat performance in the election of 7 June 2001, with lessons for the party’s future strategy.
The 2005 general election
Reviews of Andrew Geddes & Jonathan Tonge (eds.), Britain Decides The UK General Election 2005 (Palgrave, 2005), John Bartle & Anthony King (eds.), Britain at the Polls 2005 (CQ Press, 2005), Dennis Kavanagh & David Butler, The British General Election of 2005 (Palgrave, 2005), Pippa Norris & Christopher Wlezien (eds.), Britain Votes 2005 (Oxford University…
Hastings in 1900
The ‘khaki election’ of 1900 saw the Liberals performing poorly. This article examines one seat they gained from the Conservatives.
Problems of continuity
The 1906 general election and foreign policy
The development of the New Liberalism as a philosophy of transition
The philosophy that underpinned the Liberal Party’s revival in the 1906 election.
Report: 1906 remembered
Scottish Liberal Club lecture, with Willis Pickard.
The 1910 general elections
Turning points in British politics?