1909 People's Budget The 1909 People's Budget was the Liberal Government's key weapon in instigating social reform and marked a final move away from the system of Gladstonian finance, which had seen the Liberal...
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. ...
Lloyd George on the People's Budget Lloyd George's 1909 People's Budget was devised to bring about social reform and featured increases in income tax and excise duties, new taxes on cars, petrol and land, and a new supertax f...
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....
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...
The 1918 'coupon' general election Just 24 hours after the Armistice had been signed with Germany, Lloyd George announced his decision to hold an election in alliance with his Coalition partners and Parliament was accordingly dissolve...
Fusion: Liberals and Conservatives The concept of fusion between the Liberal and Conservative parties was considered in the immediate post-war years as the solution for a new political age, in which traditional party allegiances had o...
The 1929 general election The election of May 1929 took place against a backdrop of economic depression, as the Conservative government struggled to stem a growing tide of unemployment in the aftermath of the First World War....
Great Liberals John Stuart Mill chosen as greatest British Liberal ...
Old heroes for a new leader As we have done in each of the last two Liberal Democrat leadership elections, in 1999 and 2006, the Liberal Democrat History Group has asked both candidates for the Liberal Democrat leadership to wr...
Examination of the February 1921 by-election in Cardiganshire, where Asquithian and Lloyd George Liberals engaged in bitter internecine warfare.
Dr J. Graham Jones
A re-examination of the reopening by Lloyd George in September 1912 of the village institute at his native Llanystumdwy, when the proceedings were blighted by constant suffragette interruptions.
Diaries and correspondence files are used to examine the courtship between David Lloyd George and Margaret Owen between 1884 and their marriage in 1888.
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
John Grigg: Lloyd George: War Leader; Michael McManus: Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire; Mark Bonham Carter and Mark Pottle (eds): Lantern Slides: The Dairies and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1904-1914
Ian Hunter, Michael Steed and Robert Ingham
Reviews
Adonis and Thomas (eds): Roy Jenkins - A Retrospective; Barberis: Liberal Lion - Jo Grimond: A Political Life; Lloyd-George: David Winston: How a Friendship Changed History; Jackson: Harcourt and Son: A Political Biography of Sir William Harcourt
Dr Julie Smith; William Wallace; Dr J. Graham Jones; Martin Pugh
