England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

Time Period: 1910-1929

  • The Liberal Party, Health Policy and the Origins of the NHS

    The familiar story of the NHS has it that the health service is a Labour achievement, dating from the Attlee administration of 1945–51. But in reality the Liberal governments of the early twentieth century helped to lay the foundations of the NHS, and the welfare state as a whole. Join Dr Chris Renwick (University of…

  • Whig, Liberal or Tory?

    Review of Simon Kerry, Lansdowne: the Last Great Whig (Unicorn, 2017).

  • Restoring Herbert Gladstone

    Review of Kenneth D. Brown, The Unknown Gladstone: The Life of Herbert Gladstone, 1854–1930 (I.B.Tauris, 2018).

  • Lord Davies of Llandinam Papers

    Description of the papers of Lord Davies of Llandinam held at the Welsh Political Archive at the National Library of Wales.

  • Women in politics

    Review of J. Gottlieb and R. Toye (eds.), The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918–1945 (Macmillan, 2013).

  • The long march of British history

    Review of Martin Pugh, State and Society. A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).

  • The long-lived Liberal Party of Canada

    An examination of the history of the Canadian Liberal Party.

  • Meeting report: The 1918 Coupon Election and its consequences

    Evening meeting, 2 July 2018, with Alistair Cooke and Kenneth O. Morgan; chair: Claire Tyler
 Report by David Cloke Baroness Tyler opened the meeting by noting ironically that the period featured two ingredients that attendees had come to know and love: snap elections and Liberal–Conservative coalitions. Indeed, the parallels with and significance for our own…

  • The 1918 Coupon Election and its Consequences

    Report of the evening meeting, 2 July 2018, with Alistair Cooke and Kenneth O. Morgan; chair: Claire Tyler.