Time Period: 1929-1956
Lloyd George and the appeasement of Germany
Lloyd George’s stance on Germany, 1922-1945.
Lloyd George and appeasement
Review of Stella Rudman, Lloyd George and the Appeasement of Germany 1919-1945 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).
The wonderful wizard as was
Lloyd George, 1931-1945.
A life-long espousal of Liberal values
Review of Mark Pottle (ed.), Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1946 – 1969 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000).
The party leader who never was
Review of Mark Pottle (ed.), Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1914-1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998).
A man of government
Review of Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 (Macmillan, 2000).
More mirage than vision
Review of Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (University of Exeter Press, 2000).
Whigs, Liberals and History
Review of Victor Feske, From Belloc to Churchill: Private scholars, public culture and the crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
Neville Chamberlain: Policy Wonk
Review of Graham Stewart, Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999).
Re-establishing the faith
The revival of Liberalism in Dumfriesshire, 1931-63.