Time Period: 1956-1976
The twisting path
Review of Tudor Jones, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism: from Jo Grimond to Brexit (2nd edn., Manchester University Press, 2019).
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…
Geoff Tordoff: an appreciation
A look back at the life and long political career in the Liberal Party and Liberal Democrats of Geoff Tordoff.
Tentative feelers: the Liberal Party’s response to the emergence of the Green Party
An examination of the early contacts between the Liberal Party and the emerging Green Party in the 1970s.
E. D. Simon: Intellectual in politics
Biography of E. D. Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe.
A lifetime in Liberalism: where do we go now?
The fourth Viv Bingham Lecture, as delivered by Tony Greaves.
Welsh Liberal Party 1966–70
New beginnings and the challenge of Plaid Cymru.
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).
Europe: The Liberal Commitment
Autumn Conference fringe meeting, 16 September 2018, with Anthony Howe and Eugenio Biagini; chair: Julie Smith.
The long-lived Liberal Party of Canada
An examination of the history of the Canadian Liberal Party.