Themes: Elections
Decline and fall: the Liberal Party and the elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924
Report of a Liberal Democrat History Group meeting, February 2014, with Michael Steed, Professor Pat Thane and Dr Julie Smith.
Decline and Fall: the Liberal Party and the general elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924
For the Liberal Party, the three general elections of 1922,1923 and 1924 represented a terrible journey from postwar disunity to reunion, and near return to government to dramatic and prolonged decline. Arguably, this was the key period which relegated the Liberals to the third-party status from which they have still never escaped. The Liberal Democrat…
2010 analysed
Review of Robert Worcester and Roger Mortimore, Explaining Cameron’s Coalition (Biteback Publishing, 2011).
A forgotten Liberal-Conservative alliance
The Constitutionalists and the 1924 election – a new party or a worthless coupon?
250 High Streets later…
Review of Mark D’Arcy & Rory Maclean, Nightmare! The Race to Become London’s Mayor (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
Cartoons galore
Review of Alan Mumford: Drawn at the Hustings: General elections 1722-1935 in caricature and cartoon (Burke’s Peerage and Gentry, 2011).
Report: 1974 remembered
Report of the History Group meeting of September 1999, on the 1974 elections, with Tim Beaumont, Viv Bingham, Sir Cyril Smith, Paul Tyler MP and Richard Wainwright.
Simon and Southwark, Bermondsey
Analysis of how Simon Hughes came to be selected for the apparently unwinnable seat of Southwark, Bermondsey.
The newcomer
The story of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray’s spirited performance on the Oxford hustings in 1857.
Victory at Paisley
Asquith’s return to Parliament in 1920.