Time Period: 1895-1910
Churchill in Scotland
Andrew Liddle, Cheers Mr Churchill: Winston in Scotland (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2022). Review by Ian Cawood.
Wife of Lloyd George
Richard Rhys O’Brien, The Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George: The wife of the Prime Minister 1916–1922 (Y Lolfa, 2022). Review by Russell Deacon.
Strange Survival
Vernon Bogdanor, The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and power before the First World War (Biteback Publishing 2022). Review by Iain Sharpe.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847-1929
Millicent Fawcett, a radical and pioneering feminist, is best known as the leader of the suffragists, the constitutional campaigners for women’s votes. Born in Aldeburgh on 11 June 1847, Millicent Garrett was the eighth of the 11 children born to businessman Newson Garrett and his wife Louisa, neé Dunnell. Her father, a Liberal, encouraged political…
Liberal women in Devon
Review of J. Neville, M. Auchterlonie, P. Auchterlonie and A. Roberts (eds.), Devon Women in Public and Professional Life 1900–1950: Votes, voices and vocations (Exeter University Press, 2021). Review by Mark Egan.
Asquith and his background
Review of V. Markham Lester, H. H. Asquith: Last of the Romans (Lexington Books, 2019). Review by Katheryn Gallant.