Time Period: 1910-1929
The flight from the Liberal Party
Liberals who joined the Labour Party, 1914-31.
The 1910 and 2010 elections
Continuity and change in election campaigning.
The strange case of Edward Hemmerde
David Dutton traces the story of the three-times MP, playwright and judge Edward Hemmerde (1871-1948).
Strange death?
Review of Ross McKibbin, Parties and People 1914-1951 (Oxford University Press, 2010).
The coalition of 1915-1916
Prelude to disaster: an examination of the Asquith coalition of 1915-16, which brought to an end the last solely Liberal government.
Liberals in coalition, 1916-1922
An analysis of the history of the last Liberal-Conservative coalition government.
Coalition in the archives
The papers of Liberal activist Frances Josephy are used to examine the attitudes of ordinary Liberals to coalitions in the 1920s and 1930s.
The King of Showland
The unusual career of the entertainment entrepreneur and Liberal MP for Walsall, 1922-24, Pat Collins.
Secular intellectuals
Review of William C. Lubenow, Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh (Boydell Press, 2010).
We Can Conquer Unemployment
The subject of the meeting was the influence of Keynes’s and Lloyd George’s Yellow Book on the problems of conquering unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s. With one of the major policy paper debates at Brighton that year being on Employment Policy, this provided us with a chance to trace the development of Liberal/Liberal Democrat…