Themes: Social policy
Ownership for All the Liberal Party, co-ownership and industrial relations
In 1928 the Liberal Party published the Yellow Book, the report Britains Industrial Future. While the report made a compelling case for state intervention in the economy and planning and advocated great programmes of public works, it also contained detailed proposals for profit-sharing and co-ownership. Unlike socialists, Liberals did not seek the abolition of private…
‘Freedom not regimentation’
Liberalism, garden cities and early town planning.
Land taxing and the Liberals, 1879 – 1914
Why did the Liberals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries care so much about the land question in general, and land value taxation in particular?
The single-taxers and the future of Liberalism, 1906-1914
Analysis of what was hailed, in the early years of the twentieth century, as the radical alternative to collectivism and even the New Liberalism.
Report: Joseph Chamberlain and the Unauthorised Programme
Report of the Liberal Democrat History Group meeting held at the National Liberal Club on 25 July 2005, with Peter Marsh and Terry Jenkins.
Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme
This meeting looked at Joseph Chamberlain and the unauthorised programme, and how this led to the loss of the Whigs from the Liberal Party and paved the way for the New Liberalism of the 1905 government.
Report: Founding the welfare state
Report of fringe meeting of 14 September 2008, with Ian Packer and Joe Harris.
The Old Age Pensions Act, 1908
Analysis of the introduction and implementation of the first state pensions, brought in one hundred years ago.
Public or private?
The origins of the corporate economy.