Liberal Democrat peer Lord Avebury dies aged 87
Very sad news about an indefatigable campaigner who played a key role in the party over many years. … Read the full post »
Read about the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat activist Adrian Slade. He was the last President of the Liberal Party (1987-88) before its merger with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats.
Very sad news about an indefatigable campaigner who played a key role in the party over many years. … Read the full post »
The great Shirley Williams, Labour MP, SDP founder and then Liberal Democrat peer, made her final speech in Parliament today as her political career of more than 60 years comes to a close. … Read the full post »
Lib Dems, and before them the Liberals, are famous for using bar charts on local leaflets. But when did bar charts start? That’s a hard question to answer. … Read the full post »
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. … Read the full post »
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. … Read the full post »
Perhaps it is not surprising that Shirley Williams picks election day in October 1964 as the high point of her long political career. … Read the full post »
In the 1959 general election just 2,000 votes separated Ludovic Kennedy from becoming Liberal MP for Rochdale, and possibly a future party leader. … Read the full post »
For British cinemagoers Barry Norman is the personification of film. For twenty-six years, with only a brief break in ‘81/’82 when he fronted ‘Omnibus’ for the BBC, he was the authentic voice of ‘Film’. … Read the full post »
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. … Read the full post »