Archive for adrian slade
Eric Lubbock: From Orpington Man to Buddhist Monk?
For a few astonishing days in March 1962, the Liberal Party led the Conservative and Labour parties in the opinion polls, the only time it had ever done so since polls were invented. Just a few months later Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacked half his cabinet in his ‘night of the long knives’, prompting Jeremy Thorpe’s most famous comment – ‘greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life’.
Tony Greaves: From angry young man to simmering old guru
There is something a little incongruous about the notion of the Liberal Democrats’ oldest angry young man donning the ermine of a peer of the realm.
Shirley Williams on the high point of her political career
For many years Adrian Slade has interviewed prominent Liberal Democrats. To mark his recent decision to make his archive of the interview recordings available to researchers and other interested parties, Lib Dem Voice is running a selection of his write-ups of interviews from over the years. The latest is with Shirley Williams, from 2002 when she was [...]
Ludovic Kennedy: a man who just missed out on becoming Liberal Party leader
For many years Adrian Slade has interviewed prominent Liberal Democrats. To mark his recent decision to make his archive of the interview recordings available to researchers and other interested parties, Lib Dem Voice is running a selection of his write-ups of interviews from over the years. The latest is with broadcaster, writer and twice Liberal candidate [...]
Hear what leading Liberal Democrats really thought
I’ve become the custodian, on behalf of the Liberal Democrat History Group, of a great treasure trove of interviews with party figures. Adrian Slade carried out all the interviews and here he explains their background: Since 2004 the Journal of Liberal History has been the guardian of what, although I say it myself, is now [...]
