Themes: Local Liberal history
Letters to the Editor
Elections in Glasgow (Michael Steed).
Welsh Liberal Party 1966–70
New beginnings and the challenge of Plaid Cymru.
Saving Dunford House
The threat to Richard Cobden’s Sussex home.
Radical Joe and Chocolate George
Review of Andrew Reekes, Two Titans, One City: Joseph Chamberlain and George Cadbury (History West Midlands, 2017).
Liberals in local government 1967 – 2017
The Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors (ALDC) was founded, as the Association of Liberal Councillors, fifty years ago. At this meeting, organised in conjunction with ALDC, we celebrate its 50th anniversary and discuss the role of Liberals and Liberal Democrats in local government. What has the party achieved in local government? To what extent has…
Cornwall: culture, character and campaigns
Review of John Ault, Liberal Democrats in Cornwall – Culture, Character or Campaigns? (CreateSpace, 2015).
Pioneering study of Welsh Liberals
Review of Russell Deacon, The Welsh Liberals: the History of the Liberal and Liberal Democratic Parties in Wales (Welsh Academic Press, 2014).
The Liberals in Hampshire: Martin Kyrle’s reminiscences
Review of Martin Kyrle, The Liberals in Hampshire – a Part(l)y History Part 2: Eastleigh 1965–72: out in the suburbs something stirred! (Sarsen Press, 2013).
The Liberals in Hampshire: Martin Kyrle’s reminiscences
Review of Martin Kyrle, The Liberals in Hampshire – a Part(l)y History Part 1: Southampton 1958–65 (Sarsen Press, 2013).
The strange survival of Liberal Lancashire
An examination of the resilience of the Liberal Party in the Lancashire cotton districts between the 1920s and 1970s.