Time Period: 1910-1929
Lloyd George and the hard-faced men, 1918–22
Kenneth O. Morgan surveys the record of Lloyd George’s peacetime coalition government.
Christabel and the Liberals
Review of June Purvis, Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography (Routledge, 2018)
The Strange Death of Liberal England Revisited
George Dangerfield’s The Strange Death of Liberal England, published in 1935, became one of the most influential accounts of the Liberal Party’s demise as a party of government. Dangerfield claimed that by ‘the end of 1913 Liberal England was reduced to ashes’ by three forms of political turbulence and upheaval: the threat of civil…
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.
Working with Labour: The Liberal Party and the Balance of Power 1923–31
Conference fringe meeting (online), 11 March 2022, with Professor Philip Williamson and Michael Meadowcroft; Chair: Wendy Chamberlain MP. Report by Joseph Walker.
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.
Margaret Wintringham, 1879-1955
Margaret Wintringham was one of the first of the small band of Liberal women MPs. Like the other Liberal women elected in the 1920s, her political career was curtailed by the steady decline and disintegration of inter-war Liberalism.
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…