Time Period: 1910-1929
Ireland and the Liberals
Review of James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy: The third Irish home rule crisis, 1909–14 (Cork University Press, 2019).
Lloyd George and an Anglo-Irish centenary
Text of an address to mark the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
Five Liberal women and politics
Analysis of the influence of five leading women in the Liberal Party in the early twentieth century.
Lloyd George and money
Review of Ian Ivatt, The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George (Welsh Academic Press, 2019).
Asquith’s return to parliament at the 1920 Paisley by-election
Analysis of the by-election that returned the Liberal leader to the Commons.
Anarchism and Liberalism 1880-1980
Some anarchists were successfully influential in liberal networks, starting with many New Liberal networks around the beginning of the 20th Century. My thesis focuses on this earlier period but I am interested in anarchist influences on liberalism throughout the twentieth century. If any readers can help with informing me of their own personal experiences of…
A scandalous leader
Review of Peter Raina, The Seventh Earl Beauchamp: A victim of his times (Peter Lang, 2016).
E. D. Simon: Intellectual in politics
Biography of E. D. Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe.