Time Period: 1910-1929
Asquith vs. Lloyd George
Report of evening meeting (online), 1 February 2021, with David Laws and Damian Collins MP; chair, Wendy Chamberlain MP.
Lloyd George, the Liberal Summer Schools and electoral politics in the 1920s
An examination of the role the Liberal Summer Schools played in the electoral record of the Liberal Party in the 1920s.
Bertha Bowness Fischer
‘One of the most effective and most welcome workers.’ An examination of the career of the first female Liberal political agent.
Rosebery’s son
Review of Martin Gibson, A Primrose Path: The gilded life of Lord Rosebery’s favourite son (Arum Press, 2020).
Edward Grey reassessed
Review of T. G. Otte, Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (Allen Lane, 2020).
Vision in a time of crisis
Ernest Simon and the revitalising of Liberalism in the 1920s and 1930s.
T. Edmund Harvey
Liberal politician of conscience and one of only 16 MPs to have sat in the House of Commons in both world wars.