Themes: Local Liberal history
The strange death of Liberal Birmingham
An analysis of the decline of Liberalism in nineteenth-century Birmingham.
Liberal roots
The Liberal Party in a West Yorkshire constituency, 1920s-1970s.
‘A nasty, deplorable little incident in our political life’
Liberalism, National Liberalism and the editorship of the Dumfries Standard, 1957.
Liberal Sutton
Review of A Flagship Borough: 25 years of a Liberal Democrat Sutton Council (Sutton Liberal Democrats, 2012).
More mirage than vision
Review of Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (University of Exeter Press, 2000).
Re-establishing the faith
The revival of Liberalism in Dumfriesshire, 1931-63.
Liberal Party fortunes in the Isle of Wight 1900-1910
The political and electoral history of a Liberal-Conservative marginal seat.
John Sutton Nettlefold, Liberalism and the early town planning movement
The contribution of the chair of Birmingham’s Housing Committee, 1901-11, to the debates on slum housing and town planning.
Discovering Kincardineshire’s Liberal history
An article in our ‘Liberal Heritage’ series, in which well-known Liberal Democrats explore the Liberal history of their native town.
Discovering Berwick’s Liberal history
An article in our ‘Liberal Heritage’ series, in which well-known Liberal Democrats explore the Liberal history of their native town.