Inter-war decline The Liberals were a political casualty of the Great War - emerging from the conflict as a divided party, whose key ideological beliefs had been sacrificed to meet the needs of modern warfare. ...
Conscription and the Liberal Party The issue of conscription rocked the Liberal Party to its very core during the first part of the Great War, as Liberal parliamentarians struggled to justify the needs of war and necessity of compulsi...
The Liberals and the First World War Understanding the history of the Liberal Party during the First World War has been made harder by hindsight. Later Liberal decline has called into question the efficacy of Liberal ideology in wartime...
The 'Buckingham Palace plot', 1916 Edwin Montagu, Minister of Munitions and confidant of both Asquith and Lloyd George lamented that the the two great men of England were being slowly but surely pushed apart during the winter of 1916....
Asquith and Grey at the Reform Club, December 1916 Speeches delivered by H H Asquith and Viscount Grey of Fallodon at the Reform Club, London on Friday 8 December 1916, following Asquith's resignation as Prime Minister. ...
The Maurice debate, 9 May 1918 According to A J P Taylor, the historic Liberal Party committed suicide on 9 May 1918 in a parliamentary debate which saw the former Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith openly inferring tha...
Great Liberals John Stuart Mill chosen as greatest British Liberal ...
British entry into the war offered the first test of Liberal values and of the calibre of Prime Minister Asquith. Examination of the events surrounding the declaration of war on 4 August 1914.
Dr Michael Brock
Trevor Wilson: The Downfall of the Liberal Party 1914-1935; Michael and Eleanor Brock (eds): H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley.
Dr Malcolm Baines and Tony Little
The rivalry between Asquith and Lloyd George grew out of the Great War. This article argues that the points of similarity between the two were at least as important as their differences.
John Grigg
Alun Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies: Liberal Leader; Colin Clifford, The Asquiths; David Walter, The Strange Rebirth of Liberal England; William D. Rubinstein, Twentieth-Century Britain
Geoffrey Sell, Iain Sharpe, David Boyle, Dr J. Graham Jones
