Time Period: 1976-1988
One man’s pride
The lost opportunities of the Alliance years. David Owen and his impact on the Alliance.
The Alliance and after: The travelling of a necessary road
Was it all worth it? A look back at the Alliance years.
The Merger Process: an SDP retrospect
A look back at the merger process from the perspective of the SDP negotiating team. Could it have been handled differently?
The Alliance: parties and leaders
How successful was the Alliance? Was merger the right road to follow? The case against.
The Alliance: two-party cooperation in practice
How did Liberals and Social Democrats cope with the mechanics of alliance?
Alliance days
Vignettes of the days of elation and experiment, frustration and failure.
The merger debate in the SDP 1981-87
The history of the SDP-Liberal relationship, from beginnings to alliance to merger.
The SDP’s ideological legacy
What was the ideological inheritance of the Social Democratic Party? And what did it bequeath to the Liberal Democrats?
Young Liberals; the ‘Red Guard’ era
The role of foreign policy issues in the growth of the Young Liberals in the 1960s and ’70s.
Report: from Beveridge to Blair
Report of LDHG meeting of September 1997 on the welfare state, with Frank Field MP and Nick Timmins.