Time Period: 1910-1929
The 1929 general election
The election of May 1929 took place against a backdrop of economic depression, as the Conservative government struggled to stem a growing tide of unemployment in the aftermath of the First World War.
Liberal Party funding between the wars
One of the major problems facing the Liberal Party in the inter-war period was the lack of funds that they had at their disposal. As the Party became increasingly defunct, so it became impossible to attract the wealthy donors, who formed the foundation of the Liberal finances.
The New Liberalism
The disaster of the 1895 election, when the Liberals lost almost a hundred seats, struck a mortal blow at Rosebery's leadership and pointed to the urgent need for a new direction. Although for some it was the party's abandonment of its historic principles of self-help, voluntaryism and constitutional reform that lay at fault, to others…
Holding the balance
The record of the Liberal Party in hung parliaments in 1924, 1929-31 and 1977-78.
From left to right? The career of John Morley
Biography of John Morley (1838-1923), the leading Victorian and Edwardian Liberal who could be seen as both of the left and the right.
Left, right: December 1916 – The forward march of Liberals halted
Was the disastrous Liberal split of 1916 a matter of personalities or ideologies?
The fall of the Lloyd George Coalition
Report of the joint Liberal Democrat History Group/Conservative History Group meeting of July 2003, with Margaret Macmillan, Andrew Thorpe, John Barnes and Stuart Ball.
The Young Scots Society
The story of the influence of Scottish young Liberals before and after the Great War.