David Lloyd George on YouTube
Here are some of the former Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s appearances courtesy of YouTube. … Read the full post »
Read about the work of the volunteer-run Liberal Democrat History Group. It produces the quarterly Journal of Liberal History as well as running public events and supporting the publication of books about the history of the Liberal Democrats and its predecessor parties.
Here are some of the former Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s appearances courtesy of YouTube. … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrat History Group faces a double bind when it comes to finding authors and topics. … Read the full post »
A fascinating set of talks from the Liberal Democrat History Group’s spring conference meeting back in 2013. … Read the full post »
There were two elements in the disaster that was the 2015 general election result for the Liberal Democrats: just 8% of the vote and also just eight MPs. … Read the full post »
Take a look at this footnote from Matthew Goodwin and Caitlin Milazzo’s excellent Ukip: inside the campaign to redraw the map of British politics. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire 74 came out last week, featuring the newly updated biography of Charles Kennedy, Christmas book suggestions, the role of social events in political organising, a prize draw and more. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #71 looks at the controversy over Nick Clegg’s final list of honours, new figures on diversity in the Lib Dems and more. … Read the full post »
Discuss why everything went wrong with Professor Phil Cowley and Baroness Olly Grender, Paddy Ashdown’s second-in-command on the ‘Wheelhouse Group’. … Read the full post »
We’ll be talking about several of the liberal thinkers included in the booklet, saying a little about their lives and thoughts, and then drawing lessons from their thinking for the future direction of the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
On 3 March 2013, the Liberal Democrats marked their twenty-fifth birthday. The story of the party since 1988 has been a dramatic one, from near-extinction, through a failed realignment of the left, a period of rapidly changing leaders, and then into government, for the first time for a third party for sixty years. … Read the full post »