Time Period: 1910-1929
Did the Great War really kill the Liberal Party?
An analysis of the impact of the war on the Liberal Party.
A history of by-elections
Review of T. G. Otte and Paul Readman (eds.), By-elections in British politics 1832–1914 (Boydell, 2013).
The Liberal–Tory coalition of 1915
Report of the History Group evening meeting, 26 January 2015, with Ian Packer and Nigel Keohane; chair: Raymond Asquith (Earl of Oxford and Asquith and great-grandson of Herbert Asquith).
A conspiracy of silence?
Lloyd George and Basil Zaharoff.
Friends and allies
Review of Ian Hunter (ed.), Winston and Archie: The Letters of Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston S. Churchill (Politico’s, 2005).
An inept and flawed peace
Review of Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (John Murray, 2003).
A Leader without a party
Review of John Grigg, Lloyd George: War Leader (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002).
Too short a history
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 (Palgrave, 2002).
The most complex character
Review of Antony Lentin, Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: From Versailles to Hitler, 1914-1940 (Palgrave, 2001).
Internationalism and interdependency
Review of Richard S. Grayson, Liberals, International Relations and Appeasement (Frank Cass, 2001).