The Liberal Democrat dilemma in historical perspective

Political Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-20

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2007.00826.x     Document Type: Review

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2. G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon, London, Longmans Green, 1937, pp. 194-5.
3. lain McLean, 'Mr. Asquith's unfinished business', The Political Quarterly, vol. 70, 1999, pp. 382-9.
4. See Henry Pelling, 'The politics of the Osborne judgment', Historical Journal, vol. 25, 1982, pp. 889-910.
5. Cited in Vernon Bogdanor, The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, p. 163.
6. For further detail on how the British constitution helps to preserve a duopoly of power, see Vernon Bogdanor, Multi-party Politics and the Constitution, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
7. Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935, London, Collins, 1966, p. 126.
8. Ibid., p. 170.
9. David Button, A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 147. This is by far the most useful history of the party in the twentieth century.
10. Alan Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies: Liberal Leader, London, Politico's, 2003, p. 181.
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12. Jorgen Scott Rasmussen, review of Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies, in British Politics Group Newsletter, Fall 2006, p. 10.
13. Alan Watkins, The Liberal Dilemma, London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1966, p. 51. This book gives an excellent account of Liberal problems in the immediate postwar period.
14. John Bowle, Viscount Samuel, London, Victor Gollancz, 1957, p. 357.
15. Ross McKibbin, The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-1924, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1974, p. 112.
16. Trevor Wilson, ed., The Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928, London, Collins, 1970, pp. 460 and 461: 15 July 1924.
17. Richard W. Lyman, The First Labour Government, London, Chapman and Hall, 1957, p. 89.
18. John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, London, Jonathan Cape, 1977, p. 284.
19. Jo Grimond, Memoirs, London, Heinemann 1979, pp. 204, 211-12.
20. Cited in Michael Steed, 'The Liberal Party', in H. M. Drucker, ed., Multi-party Britain, London, Macmillan, 1979, p. 79.