Time Period: 1895-1910
The New Liberalism
Introduction to Liberal history. In the first of a new series of short introductory articles, Duncan Brack reviews the New Liberalism, an important development in Liberal politics and philosophy.
Lloyd George’s French connection
Kenneth O. Morgan analyses the record – so far largely overlooked – of Lloyd George’s interest in France and French policy.
Herbert Lewis and the South African war, 1899–1902
Those Liberals MPs who opposed the Boer War sometimes experienced uneasy relationships with their constituencies and local parties. Brendon Jones examines one particular case.
Forgotten Liberal Heroes: Sir Edward Grey and Richard Haldane
The Liberal governments of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H.H. Asquith included many ‘big beasts’. Sir Edward Grey served as Foreign Secretary and remains the longest-serving holder of the office. He maintained good relations with France and Russia at a time of great instability in Europe. When his efforts to avert conflict failed, in 1914, Grey persuaded…
Margot Asquith (Countess of Oxford and Asquith), 1864-1945
Emma Alice Margaret Tennant later became Mrs Asquith and eventually the first Countess of Oxford and Asquith but she was universally known as ‘Margot’. Margot was married to an immense personality, yet was also a great personality in her own right, who appears to have exerted significant influence over the career of her husband. Unlike…
A Liberal for All Seasons?
An examination of the political career of Percy Alport Molteno, 1861–1937 (Part 1: 1861–1914).
Eleanor Acland, 1878-1933
Eleanor Acland was born Eleanor Margaret Cropper in Westmoreland in 1878, into a family with political connections. Her paternal grandfather, Sir James Cropper, was Liberal MP for Kendal from 1880 to 1885, while her maternal grandfather was Lord Knutsford who had been a Conservative MP and secretary to the colonies from 1887 to 1892. After…