Liberal Democrat History The Gladstone Club are organising a meeting on Gladstone's Legacy withEuginio Biagini. It's at the National Liberal Club on 14th December.
www.gladstoneclub.org
The Gladstone Club is a forum which welcomes all those who wish to engage in political discussion and question the ideas and policies of the day. We are radical in the sense that we wish to penetrate the ‘roots’ of issues without the ties of party loyalty and political correctness. ...
Liberal Democrat History Reuters has published a report on our Bournemouth meeting about hung Parliaments
blogs.reuters.com
A senior Liberal Democrat has lifted a lid on the murky world of coalition politics - a touchy subject for the party which last tasted national power in Britain in the brief Lib-Lab pact of the late 1970s.
Andrew Whitehead 'The Land Song' - that marvellous anthem. I am trying to find out more about its history - and when it came back into vogue as the Glee Club favourite. All references, research tips, and anecdotes keenly sought - after all, 'God gave the land song to the people'.
Penni
Happy Labor Day to all those labor heroes past and present who have made the
world better for working people.
Hepi Kumajas ' viva liberalisme '
Liberal Democrat History
The long-term decline in popularity of Labour and the Conservatives, and the growth in the number of ‘third-party’ MPs at Westminster – including mostly notably those of the Liberal Democrats – means that a Parliament with no single-party overall majority is now arithmetically much more likely.
Any third party holding ...the balance of power in Parliament finds itself facing both opportunities and threats. It may be able to influence events to ensure elements of its own programme are implemented, either through coalition government or other, less formal, arrangements. Or it may find itself relegated to impotence, prone to internal divisions and squeezed in the following election.
Over the last ninety years the Liberal Party and Liberal Democrats have lived through both types of experience. This meeting is designed to discuss how the party handled the situations it found itself in, and whether, in retrospect, it could have done better (or worse).
Speakers: Professor Martin Pugh (hung parliaments in the 1920s); Lord Tom McNally (Lib-Lab Pact, 1970s) and David Laws MP (Scottish Parliament, 1999). Chair: Duncan Brack (Editor, Journal of Liberal History).
Supported by The Guardian.
Time:6:15PM Sunday, September 20th
Location:Franklyn Suite, Connaught Hotel
Liberal Democrat History
In 1859, the philosopher and leading liberal theorist of Victorian Britain, John Stuart Mill, published his most important and enduring work – On Liberty. In this essay Mill set out the principle, still acknowledged as universal and valid today, that only the threat of harm to others could justify interfering with anyo...ne’s liberty of action.
On Liberty has become the most revered of liberal texts. The Liberal Democrat History Group, the London School of Economics and the British Liberal Political Studies Group are holding a one-day symposium to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On Liberty and to publicise the archive of papers left by Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor who, according to Mill, was as much responsible for On Liberty as he was himself.
Speakers who have agreed to give papers include:
David Howarth, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge: The importance of J S Mill and On Liberty to British thought and politics today
Dr Eugenio Biagini, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: J S Mill and the Victorian Liberal Party
Dr Annabelle Lever, Institute of Science Ethics & Innovation, Manchester Law School: Mill and the Secret Ballot
Dr Georgios Varouxakis, Queen Mary, University of London: Mill’s Vision of International Relations
Sue Donnelly, Archivist at the LSE Library: The Mill-Taylor Archives at the LSE (with optional visit to see papers in the archive over the lunch break)
Dr Michael Levin, Emeritus Reader in Politics, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London: Mill and the Threat to Civilization
Dr Alan Butt Philip, University of Bath and J S Mill Institute: Mill as a politician
A celebration and exploration of aspects of the life, career and thought of John Stuart Mill
Time:9:30AM Saturday, November 14th
Location:Room 1.04, New Academic Building, London School of Economics
Seth
A shameless plug for a talk I'm giving, which may be of interest:
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‘Winston Churchill in defeat: Why did Churchill lose his seat in Dundee in 1922?'
Wednesday 1 July 2009, 8pm
Churchill Room, Goodenough College, Meck...lenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2AB
See group for more info!
Nigel Amor Can anyone recommend a good book on the history of PR in Britain ? Why did the House of Commons reject it 100 years ago?
Liberal Democrat History
The Liberal Party and the SDP were the most pro-European of the British political parties. So how has their successor party fared in European politics since merger in 1988? How has the party adapted to the wide range of liberal thought represented by our sister parties in ALDE and ELDR?
Speakers: Graham Watson MEP (Lead...er of ALDE) will look at the record of the Lib Dem group in the European Parliament; Florus Wijsenbeek (former Dutch Liberal MP and first secretary-general of ELDR) will examine where the party fits on the European liberal spectrum and whether there have been changes in ideological or political position by the Lib Dems over the past twenty one years.
Chair: Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP
Time:8:00PM Friday, March 6th
Location:Queen’s Suite 2, Harrogate International Centre
Liberal Democrat History
A little gem from history via YouTube: a song in praise of Lloyd George
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n1x6wvwZ74
Liberal Democrat History
Following the introduction of Old Age Pensions by the Liberal government of H H Asquith in 1908 and the plans to legislate for limited unemployment and sickness benefit through National Insurance, Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George brought in the means to pay for
these measures, as well as for naval re-armam...ent, in his 1909 People's Budget. It was a truly radical budget as for the first time an attempt was being made to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor.
The budget brought a constitutional stand-off between the government and the House of Lords. Finally, after the two general elections of 1910, the House of Lords agreed to pass the Parliament Act of 1911, confirming
the primacy of the elected over the hereditary chamber.
The meeting will examine the political context in which the budget was introduced and evaluate its importance to Liberalism 100 years ago and its resonance today.
Speakers: Professor, Lord Kenneth O Morgan (Historian and Biographer of Lloyd George) & Dr Vince Cable MP (Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman)
Chair: William Wallace, (Lord Wallace of Saltaire)
The centenary of the People’s Budget
Time:7:00PM Monday, January 12th
Location:Lady Violet Room, National Liberal Club
Liberal Democrat History
Our speaker meeting at party conference is about the founding of the welfare state: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Libera
Liberal Democrat History
Gladstone books go under hammer: BBC News On-Line
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tays
David
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