ate Sir John Herbert Lewis, Liberal MP for Flintshire (then parliamentary secretary to the Local Government ArchivesArchives Board), wrote to thank him effusively for this ‘courageous act’, proceeding, ‘The Library will be at, I hope, a very distant date your literary mausoleum’. This hope has by now been largely Liberal Party Archives at the fulfilled. The seven Lloyd George archives may be enumerated as follows: National Library of Wales .Brynawelon group (NLW MSS ,–): Purchase J. Graham Jones . Earl Lloyd-George Papers (NLW MSS ,–, NLW MSS ,–, and NLW ex ): Purchase and ver since the foundation of the witnessed a sharp upsurge in the .William George Papers: Purchase ENational Library of Wales in , inflow of political archives, including the Department of Manuscripts and those of the Liberal Party. .Olwen Carey-Evans Papers (NLW Records has acted as a national archival This account is confined to archives MSS ,–): Purchase repository, and has acquired and and collections of papers dating from .A. J. Sylvester Papers: Purchase preserved the papers of a number of about . Only significant archives . Viscount Tenby Papers (NLW MSS prominent Welsh Liberal politicians. and groups of records are listed. A ,–): Purchase Many of the generation of distin- comprehensive guide to small archives . Frances Stevenson Family Papers: guished Liberal politicians who had and stray items relevant to the history Purchase been closely associated with the of the Liberal Party would have led to movement to set up a National Library a list of inordinate length. Among these archives, two groups of in the late nineteenth century were papers are quite outstanding – Lloyd themselves professional men, often George’s letters to his first wife Dame barristers, solicitors or academics, or David Lloyd George Margaret within the Brynawelon else they came from a commercial papers group, and those to his brother William background, and were thus archivally In any consideration of the personal in the William George Papers. Lloyd minded, fully sensitive to the historical papers of Liberal politicians, prec- George was at no time a prolific significance of their papers, and thus to edence must be given to those of correspondent, writing very sparingly the necessity of preserving them in David Lloyd George, Liberal MP for to both personal friends and political good order. the Caernarfon Boroughs, –, associates. But he did write regularly, By the s, however, there was a Chancellor of the Exchequer, –, often daily, to his wife Margaret, who growing awareness that many politi- and Prime Minister, –. The (at least during the early years of their cians and political activists were simply most extensive group of his political marriage) much preferred the domes- unaware of the historical importance papers, those which he bequeathed to tic tranquillity of Cricieth to the of the papers which they acquired, and his second wife Frances, and which she political bustle of Westminster, and to so too the officials of local political subsequently sold to Lord Beaverbrook his younger brother William, who parties and pressure groups. Many in (and hence originally held at conscientiously ran the Cricieth-based significant groups of political papers the Beaverbrook Library) are now in family legal practice Lloyd George & and the records of local parties had the custody of the Parliamentary George, and who acted as Lloyd ceased to exist. During the whole of Archive (the Record Office at the George’s election agent and ever-loyal the s, not a single significant House of Lords). But the National political lieutenant within the Caer- Liberal archive had come to hand. It Library of Wales now holds no fewer narfon Boroughs. Lloyd George wrote was in order to rectify these deficien- than seven important Lloyd George secure in the knowledge that both cies that the Welsh Political Archive archives, six of them acquired during groups of letters would be perused was established at the NLW in the the last twenty years. At the beginning anxiously and proudly by his revered spring of . Its original remit was of , after Lloyd George, as Chan- uncle and mentor Richard Lloyd wide-ranging: ‘to co-ordinate the cellor of the Exchequer, had agreed to (‘Uncle Lloyd’). Many of the series of collection of all materials – manuscript, a government grant of £, to the some , letters from Lloyd George printed and audio-visual – concerning embryonic National Library of Wales to Dame Margaret, – (NLW politics in Wales’. So hard-hitting has (as well as a special grant of £ a MSS – ) have been edited and been the impact of the Archive that the published by Professor Kenneth O. year for two years for cataloguing intervening seventeen years have manuscripts), his close political associ- Morgan. The even longer series of
26 Journal of Liberal Democrat History 26: Spring 2000 , letters from Lloyd George to acquiring a long sequence of more than highly influential Baner ac Amserau William, – – often fuller, letters, –, from the Labour Cymru. more revealing and more intensely MP Philip Noel-Baker (–) to Sir John Herbert Lewis (–). MP political than his epistles to Margaret – Megan with whom she shared a very for Flint Boroughs, –, have been used by only a small number close, if intermittent, relationship from Flintshire, –, and the University of writers and researchers. The William until . Mervyn Jones’s highly of Wales, –; Junior Lord of the George Papers also include ten pocket acclaimed biography of Lady Megan is Treasury and a Liberal Party Whip, diaries kept by the young Lloyd largely founded on this substantial series ; parliamentary secretary to the George from (when he was only of letters. Local Government Board, –; fifteen years of age) until . Although small groups of corre- Parliamentary Secretary to the Board The papers of Lloyd George’s spondence and papers and stray items of Education, –. devoted principal private secretary from will undoubtedly come to light in , Albert James Sylvester (–) future, it may be noted with confi- A. C. Humphreys-Owen (–). include many files of correspondence dence that no major Lloyd George MP for Montgomeryshire, –; and papers potently illuminating his archive now remains in private hands. close confidant of Stuart Rendel. employer’s activities and aspirations after Stuart Rendel (–). MP for his fall from power in . There is also Montgomeryshire, –, first a long series of very detailed typescript Contemporaries of Lloyd chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary diaries which include much important George Party from ; close friend to W. E. material beyond that published by The National Library also holds Gladstone. Colin Cross in . Among the substantial archives of the papers of Viscount Tenby Papers purchased in many of the distinguished Liberal J. Bryn Roberts ( – ). MP for the is much material concerning politicians who were Lloyd George’s Eifion division of Caernarfonshire, Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, first Viscount early contemporaries at Westminster. – . Tenby (–), the Liberal (later Among them are: D. A. Thomas (–). MP for National Liberal) MP for Merthyr Tydfil, – January , Pembrokeshire, – and –, David Davies, Llandinam (–). and for Cardiff, January–December who later served from – as the MP for Montgomeryshire, –; ; Baron Rhondda, January ; National Liberal and Conservative MP parliamentary private secretary to D. Viscount Rhondda, June ; for Newcastle-upon-Tyne North, and Lloyd George when he was Minister of President of the Local Government who became Home Secretary and Munitions and Prime Minister, – Board, –; Food Controller, Minister for Welsh Affairs under Prime ; founder of the New Common- –. Ministers Churchill and Eden. The wealth Association; created the first most recent acquisition, purchased only Baron Davies of Llandinam, . Also in the custody of the National in January of this year, is a small ‘residue’ Sir Owen M. Edwards (–). MP Library are groups of papers of the of the papers of Frances Stevenson, the for Merionethshire, –; first following Liberal politicians and public Dowager Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor chief inspector of schools in Wales figures: ( – ), which Ruth Longford used under the new Welsh Education as the basis of her graphic and vivid Department, . A. H. D. Acland ( – ). MP for study of her grandmother published in Rotherham, –, and for the . Thomas Edward Ellis (–). MP for Chiltern Hundreds, –; The Brynawelon group also in- Merionethshire, –; second created th Baronet in . cludes a few of the papers of Lady Liberal whip under Gladstone, ; Sir Alfred T. Davies (–). Per ma- Megan Lloyd George (–), the chief whip under Rosebery, . nent Secretary to the Welsh Depart- youngest of the five children of David There is also a substantial group of ment of the Board of Education, and Margaret Lloyd George, who was papers relating to T. E. Ellis among –. the Liberal MP for Anglesey, – those of his close friend and confidant (in the former year becoming the first- D. R. Daniel (–), and among Ellis W. Davies (–). MP for the ever woman MP in the history of those of his son Dr T. I. Ellis (– Eifion division of Caernarfonshire, Wales), and, who, having formally ). –; unsuccessfully contested embraced socialism in April , Sir Samuel T. Evans (–). MP for Caernarfonshire in ; MP for the served as the Labour MP for Mid-Glamorgan, –; Solicitor- Denbigh division of Denbighshire, Carmarthenshire, – . A notori- General, –; President of the – . ously lax correspondent, Megan was Divorce, Probate and Admiralty Court, Sir Joseph Davies. Commercial statisti- woefully negligent of her personal –. cian; close associate of D. Lloyd papers, and rarely kept a diary of any George; member of the ‘garden suburb’ kind. The National Library was, there- Thomas Gee (–). Liberal journal- during World War One. fore, delighted in to succeed in ist, author and publisher. Editor of the
Journal of Liberal Democrat History 26: Spring 2000 27 Matthew L. Vaughan Davies (–). J. Herbert Roberts, Baron Clwyd (– and Ramsay MacDonald – until his Unsuccessfully contested ). MP for West Denbighshire, retirement in . A very large Cardiganshire as a Conservative in –. ‘Some Memories of my archive of Jones’ papers (amounting ; MP for Cardiganshire, – Life’ ( typescript) (NLW MS to bound volumes and twenty- ; created Baron Ystwyth, . C). six boxes of papers and volumes) is held at the National Library, con- Sir E. Vincent Evans (–). The diaries of the John William Morris, cerning many aspects of governmen- Prominent London Welshman, notable the Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest (– tal activity and Welsh life, most of eisteddfodwr, and president of the ), the distinguished judge, also them superbly catalogued by the late Honourable Society of include many revealing references to Professor Gwyn A. Williams in the Cymmrodorion. David Lloyd George. There is some s. Class Z comprises a long J. Victor Evans (–). Liberal material relating to Lloyd George series of Dr Jones’s diaries, – candidate for Pontypridd, , and among the papers of his early biogra- , which he had privately printed Merthyr Tydfil in the by-election. pher W. Watkin Davies (–) and in Switzerland, and which include in the papers of T. J. Evans (–), material beyond that available in the Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith (–). who corresponded with many promi- published diaries. Jones’ daughter was Unsuccessfully contested the Toxteth nent Liberal politicians of his genera- the Baroness White of Rhymney (– division of Liverpool, ; MP for tion. There are some papers relating to ) who, as Eirene White, served as the Anglesey, –; chairman of the the history of the Liberal Party in Labour MP for East Flintshire, – Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party, Wales in the following personal . It is anticipated that Lady White’s ; Parliamentary Secretary to the archives: Charles E. Breese, Rev. Gwilym own papers will be received at the Home Office, –; unsuccessfully Davies, Alderman R. J. Ellis, Aberystwyth, Library very shortly. contested the University of Wales, Dr T. I. Ellis, H. Tobit Evans, Alderman J. ; MP for the Carmarthen District, M. Howell, Aberaeron, T. Mervyn Jones, R. –. Silyn Roberts and Sir Daniel Lleufer Clement Davies papers Professor W. J. Gruffydd (–). MP Thomas. Lloyd George is not the only Liberal for the University of Wales, –; In the National Library was Party leader whose papers are held at prominent Welsh poet and literary able to purchase interesting groups of the National Library for a substantial critic. papers of a father and son, both of archive of the political and personal them Liberal MPs – Arthur John papers of E. Clement Davies (– E. Morgan Humphreys (–). Williams (–), MP for South ) has also been deposited by his Prominent Liberal journalist and Glamorgan, –, who came to widow and son. Davies, the Liberal author; corresponded regularly with prominence as one of the primary MP for Montgomeryshire, –, many Liberal politicians. founders of the National Liberal Club and party leader, –, never kept a E. T. John (–). MP for East in ; and Eliot Crawshay-Williams diary or penned his reminiscences. The Denbighshire, –; introduced the (–), assistant private secretary papers, disappointingly thin for Government of Wales Bill in the House to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Davies’s ‘Simonite’ period in the of Commons in ; joined the Office, –, and MP for Leicester, thirties, are much fuller for the years Labour Party, , and was defeated in –, when he served as parliamen- after and contain rich sources for East Denbighshire in the ‘coupon’ tary private secretary to David Lloyd the history of the Liberal Party, Welsh general election; stood in Brecon & George who was then Chancellor of affairs and Montgomeryshire politics. Radnor in the general elections of the Exchequer. Among the many prominent Liberals and , and in Anglesey at a by- who feature in the list of correspond- election in April . ents are Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Jo Dr Thomas Jones CH Grimond, Gilbert Murray, Philip Rea, Sir Henry Haydn Jones (–). MP Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir John Simon for Merionethshire, –; generally papers and Sir Archibald Sinclair (Lord antagonistic to D. Lloyd George. Also closely associated with Lloyd George was Thomas Jones (– Thurso). There are also important Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris ( – ). ), who was appointed Secretary groups of the papers of Clement Independent Liberal MP for to the National Health Insurance Davies’ wife Mrs Jano Clement Davies Cardiganshire, – ; arch-oppo- Commissioners in , and, largely ( – ) and his son Mr Stanley nent of Lloyd George; first regional through Lloyd George’s influence, Clement-Davies (b. ). The Clem- director of the BBC in Wales, – ; became Deputy Secretary to the ent Davies Papers remain under MP for Carmarthenshire, – . Cabinet in . He served four embargo; intending researchers must There is no party political material successive prime ministers – Lloyd secure the prior written permission of among these papers. George, Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin Mr Stanley Clement-Davies, London.
28 Journal of Liberal Democrat History 26: Spring 2000 Party records are supplemented by correspondence Montgomeryshire to Clement Davies An independent Welsh Liberal Party files, financial records, subject files, and Emlyn Hooson. press cuttings and political ephemera. was established for the first time only Dr George Morrison. An activist within The Cardiganshire records are comple- in . In the wake of the merger of the Welsh Liberal Party and the mented by correspondence and papers the Liberals and the Social Democratic Ceredigion & Pembroke North Party in , a substantial group of donated by Dr E. Roderic Bowen (b. constituency. records of the WLP was donated to the ) (Liberal MP for the county, National Library. These include an – ) in (NLW MSS , – Merfyn Jones. An activist within Aber- incomplete set of the minutes of the ) and . The latter deposit ystwyth, the Ceredigion & Pembroke executive committee and the general includes the papers of Harry Rees of North division, the WLP and the council dating from , the corre- Lampeter, the local party’s secretary Liberal Party. His papers include four spondence files of Lord Lloyd of and registration agent in the s. minute books, – , of the Aber- Cilgerran, party treasurer and chair- Smaller groups of records derive from ystwyth Liberal Association. man of the Liberal Party’s Law Panels, the Caernarfonshire and the Vale of and an array of subject files concern- Glamorgan constituencies. The contemporary Liberal Democrats ing local government, party organisa- The Library has also purchased from are represented in the papers of the tion, conferences, campaigns and the Newport Library a photocopy of following individuals: the minute book, –, of meetings elections. There is a further series of Mr Clive Betts. Welsh Affairs corre- files relating to individual constituen- of the Welsh Liberal MPs (NLW Fac spondent of the Western Mail. cies, and substantial groups of pam- ). NLW MS , D is the minute phlets, leaflets and minutes. Papers book, – , of the North Wales Mr Gwyn Griffiths. The last chairman of dating from the last ten years are Liberal Federation. The Library also the Welsh Liberal Party before it subject to an embargo, and intending holds a small group of records deriving merged with the SDP in . A searchers must secure written permis- from the Liberal Party Confer- member of the WPA Consultative sion to view them. ence held at Llandudno. Committee. The WPA also received the minutes Mr Peter Sain ley Berry. A former Liberal of the short-lived SDP Council for Modern personal papers who was a founder member of the Wales when it was reconstituted in SDP in , and who stood as the The National Library holds groups of . These are complemented by the party’s candidate at Swansea West in papers of the following Liberal politi- records of numerous local SDP , Pontypridd in , and cians and local activists: branches in Wales, among them Pembroke in . Ceredigion & Pembroke North, and Emlyn Hooson (Lord Hooson). MP for Rev. Roger Roberts. Stood as the Liberal the Dyfed Area SDP (both donated by Montgomeryshire, –. Lord candidate at Conwy in the general Professor Glanville Price of Aberyst- Hooson’s written permission is elections of , and . wyth), the West Glamorgan Area Party, required before access to his extensive the Vale of Glamorgan Party, and the papers may be granted. Monmouth group. Also in the custody Emrys O. Roberts (–). MP for of the Library is a small corpus of the W. E. Gladstone papers Merionethshire, –. This account began with a description papers of Mr Jeffrey Thomas (–), Lord Ogmore (–) (formerly David of the extensive papers of David Lloyd Labour MP for Abertillery, –, Rees Rees-Williams). A former Labour George. It is perhaps fitting that it who joined the SDP very early in its MP, –, he joined the Liberal should close with a reference to history in . Mr Thomas subse- Party in ; Liberal Party President, holdings relevant to W. E. Gladstone quently stood as the SDP candidate for –. (–). Stray letters written by Cardiff West in the general election of Gladstone may be found in a number , and later rejoined the Labour Sir Alun Talfan Davies (b. ). Inde- of archives held by the National Party in . pendent candidate in the famous Library, among them the papers of Among local Liberal Party archives, University of Wales by-election in Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn MP, Stuart outstanding sets of records have come ; stood as a Liberal in the Rendel MP, Henry Richard MP and to hand from (predictably) the two Carmarthenshire division in the Sir Henry Hussey Vivian MP. areas where the Liberal tradition has general elections of and , and The Library has also purchased remained buoyant throughout the Denbighshire in ; an activist complete microfilm copies of the twentieth century – Montgomeryshire within the Welsh Liberal Party. most extensive archives of the and Cardiganshire. In both cases Dr Ben G. Jones (–). Liberal Gladstone Papers in the custody of St fascinating minute books date from the candidate for Merionethshire, . Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, and the s, providing vivid testimony to the British Library as published in the sometimes tumultuous course of Mrs Mary Garbett-Edwards (–). microfilm series The Papers of the Prime political life in these counties, and they Local Liberal agent in Ministers of Great Britain, edited by the
Journal of Liberal Democrat History 26: Spring 2000 29 late Professor Colin Matthew of and debates, and election broadcasts. In the Archive also produced a Oxford (MFL ). The NLW is one of only five institu- booklet entitled The General tions in Britain permitted to record Election in Wales , giving the results of television and radio programmes off- the and general elections in Microfilms air. An agreement has been reached Wales, with an authoritative introduc- Among the extensive microform with the Local Elections Unit of the tion by distinguished psephologist Dr holdings of the National Library University of Plymouth for the Denis Balsom, now a political consult- which are of political interest are: exchange of data relating to Welsh ant with HTV and a member of the local elections. In recent years most of WPA Consultative Committee. MFC – Archives of the British the web pages produced by the Liberal Party (Harvester Microfilms) political parties have been printed out MFC Pamphlets and Leaflets in hard copy and preserved; this is Access and availability Parts – – boxes of especially true of those relating to the The reading rooms of the National microfiche general election and to the Library are normally open to accred- referenda on devolution in Scotland ited readers from . am until . MFC National Liberal Federation and Wales, and the Welsh Assem- p.m. on weekdays, and from . am Annual Reports, –. box of bly elections. until . p.m. on Saturdays. The microfiche As one of the six copyright (or legal Library is closed on Sundays, Bank MFL British Political Party General deposit) libraries, the NLW can claim a Holidays and during the first full week Election Addresses free copy of almost every monograph in October. Admission (for a few days) or periodical number published within is by reader’s pass which may be issued The National Liberal Club Collection the United Kingdom. The bookstock upon production of an identification from Bristol University (Harvester of about . million volumes held by document such as a passport, bank card Microfilms): Part : General Election the Department of Printed Books or driving licence. Readers wishing to Addresses, – ( reels); Part : includes many relating to British and make more extensive use of the General Election Addresses, – Welsh politics, together with long runs Library’s resources may make applica- ( reels) of journals and newspapers, many of tion for a five-year reader’s ticket. the last-named now on CD-ROM. Holders of readers’ tickets may consult Further election addresses and political Finally, the Department of Pictures and the holdings of the Welsh Political leaflets deriving from parliamentary Maps holds extensive archives of Archive, but access to some records and and by-elections after may be photographs and portraits, posters and papers of recent date is restricted by found among the papers of the Rev. cartoons, many of Liberal politicians. embargo. Readers are, therefore, Ivor T. Rees of Swansea, who has also advised to make appropriate enquiries donated an extensive collection of before visiting the Library. index cards bearing details of many of Welsh Political Archive the candidates who stood in British parliamentary elections between lectures How are the holdings and . The Welsh Political Archive, In the Archive instituted an too, has accumulated a near complete annual public lecture, thirteen of best approached? set of the election addresses and leaflets which have been delivered to date. Since the Welsh Political Archive issued by Liberal candidates in Welsh Each has subsequently been published has published a biannual Newsletter, constituencies in the general elections in booklet form, and all remain in twenty-eight numbers of which have of , , and , parlia- print and are available for purchase hitherto seen the light of day. Each mentary by-elections in Wales, elec- from the Library. The following would issue contains details of the archives tions to the European Parliament and be of particular interest to students of and items which have been the Welsh Assembly elections, the history of the Liberal Party: accessioned during the course of the previous six months. This is probably together with some material deriving John Grigg, Lloyd George and Wales the best starting point for the student from local government elections in () Wales. These are in addition to the of the history of the Liberal Party. items held by the Library from earlier Lord Blake, An incongruous partnership: Earlier accessions may be traced parliamentary and local election Lloyd George and Bonar Law () through the Library’s Annual Reports which have been published ever since campaigns. Lord Hooson, Rebirth or Death?: , and which are now available for The Library’s Sound and Moving Liberalism in Wales in the Second Half of searching on a free-text data base. The Image Collection, established in , the Twentieth Century () has built up a substantial archive of Guide to the Department of Manuscripts video and audio tapes of programmes Lord Prys Davies, Welsh Political and Records (Aberystwyth, NLW, ) of Welsh political interest, including Developments in the Twentieth Century is a most helpful annotated survey of news bulletins, discussion programmes () the archive groups and collections in
30 Journal of Liberal Democrat History 26: Spring 2000 the custody of the Department of Library’s web pages may be accessed at George, first Viscount Tenby’, National Library Manuscripts. It is hoped that a ‘Guide http://www.llgc.org.uk/. The mem- of Wales Journal (forthcoming). 5. Ruth Longford, Frances Lloyd George: more to the Welsh Political Archive’ will be bers of staff responsible for the Welsh than a mistress (Leominster, 1996). published at some point in the future. Political Archive are pleased to respond 6. See J. Graham Jones, ‘A breach in the family: Almost all departmental lists and to enquiries concerning its archival Megan and Gwilym Lloyd George’, Journal of Liberal Democrat History no. 25 (Winter 1999– catalogues are now available for holdings. 2000), ‘Special Issue: Political Defections’, 34– consultation at the public search room 39. of the Royal Commission on Histori- J. Graham Jones is the Assistant Archivist, 7. Mervyn Jones, A Radical Life: the Biography of Megan Lloyd George, 1902–66 (London, cal Manuscripts, Quality House, The Welsh Political Archive, Department of 1991). Quality Court, Chancery Lane, Manuscripts and Records. 8. J. Graham Jones, Lloyd George Papers at the London, WCA HP. Many have also National Library of Wales and Other Repositor- been published commercially in The 1. J. Herbert Lewis to D. Lloyd George, 23 Febru- ies, to be published by the National Library of Wales during 2000, provides an overview of National Inventory of Documentary ary 1910, cited in John Grigg, Lloyd George and Wales (Aberystwyth, 1988), p. 9. each of these archive groups. Sources (NIDS), a microform series 2. Kenneth O. Morgan (ed.), Lloyd George Family 9. E. L. Ellis, T.J.: a Life of Doctor Thomas Jones, produced by Chadwyck-Healey. All Letters, 1885–1936 (Cardiff and Oxford, 1973). C.H. (Cardiff, 1992) is a comprehensive and au- 3. Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George: the thoritative biography. catalogues produced since the mid- 10. J. Graham Jones, ‘The Clement Davies Papers: a Diary of A. J. Sylvester, 1931–45 (London, s (and some earlier ones) may be 1975). review’, National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. searched on-line on ISYS-WEB. The 4. See J. Graham Jones, ‘Major Gwilym Lloyd- 23 (1983–84), 406–21.
Research in Progress If you can help any of the individuals listed below with sources, contacts, or any other information — or if you know anyone who can — please pass on details to them. Details of other research projects in progress should be sent to the Editor (see page 2) for inclusion here.
The party agent and English electoral culture, c.1880 – c.1906. The Moir, who are believed to have been Chairmen. Tony Marriott, Flat development of political agency as a profession, the role of the A, 13 Coleridge Road, Crouch End, London N8 8EH. election agent in managing election campaigns during this period, The Liberal Party and foreign and defence policy, 1922–88; of and the changing nature of elections, as increased use was made of particular interest is the 1920s and ’30s, and the possibility of the press and the platform. Kathryn Rix, Christ's College, interviewing anyone involved in formulating party foreign and Cambridge, CB2 2BU; [email protected]. defence policies. Dr R. S. Grayson, 8 Cheltenham Avenue, Liberal policy towards Austria-Hungary, 1905–16. Andrew Twickenham TW1 3HD. Gardner, 22 Birdbrook House, Popham Road, Islington, London N1 Liberal foreign policy in the 1930s. Focussing particularly on Liberal 8TA; [email protected]. anti-appeasers. Michael Kelly, 12 Collinbridge Road, Whitewell, The Hon H. G. Beaumont (MP for Eastbourne 1906–10). Any Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT36 7SN information welcome, particularly on his political views (he stood as The Liberal Party and the wartime coalition 1940–45. Sources, a Radical). Tim Beaumont, 40 Elms Road, London SW4 9EX. particularly on Sinclair as Air Minister, and on Harcourt Johnstone, The political life and times of Josiah Wedgwood MP. Study of the Dingle Foot, Lord Sherwood and Sir Geoffrey Maunder (Sinclair's political life of this radical MP, hoping to shed light on the question PPS) particularl welcome. Ian Hunter, 9 Defoe Avenue, Kew, of why the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the primary Richmond TW9 4DL; [email protected] popular representatives of radicalism in the 1920s. The grassroots organisation of the Liberal Party 1945–641945–64; the role Paul Mulvey, 112 Richmond Avenue, London N1 0LS; of local activists in the late 1950s revival of the Liberal Party. Mark [email protected] Egan, 42 Richmond Road, Gillingham, Kent ME7 1LN. Defections of north-east Liberals to the Conservatives, c.1906– The Unservile State Group, 1953–1970s. Dr Peter Barberis, 24 1935. Aims to suggest reasons for defections of individuals and Lime Avenue, Flixton, Manchester M41 5DE. develop an understanding of changes in electoral alignment. Sources include personal papers and newspapers; suggestions The Young Liberal Movement 1959–1985; including in particular about how to get hold of the papers of more obscure Liberal relations with the leadership, and between NLYL and ULS. Carrie defectors welcome. Nick Cott, 1a Henry Street, Gosforth, Park, 89 Coombe Lane, Bristol BS9 2AR; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE3 1DQ; [email protected]. [email protected].
Liberals and the local government of London 1919–39. Chris Fox, The political and electoral strategy of the Liberal Party 1970–79. 173 Worplesdon Road, Guidlford GU2 6XD; Individual constituency papers, and contact with members of the [email protected]. Party’s policy committees and/or the Party Council, particularly welcome. Ruth Fox, 7 Mulberry Court, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts Crouch End or Hornsey Liberal Association or Young Liberals in the CM23 3JW. 1920s and 1930s; especially any details of James Gleeson or Patrick
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