Liberal history and biography

Below is a bibliography of books on British liberal history, including biographies. This list serves as our ‘wish list’ for the National Liberal Club’s Library. All items in bold are works owned by the Club and all other works are pieces of liberal literature that we wish to own. If would like to contribute or donate to our Library, please contact the National Liberal Club’s Honorary Librarian, Dr. Seth Thévoz. Our thanks and acknowledgment to the Liberal History Group, who helped compile the original list of works found here.

Reference – Liberal Party history

Vernon Bogdanor, Liberal Party Politics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983).
Duncan Brack et al, Dictionary of Liberal Biography (Politico’s, London, 1998).
_______________, Dictionary of Liberal Quotations (Politico’s, London, 1999).
_______________, Dictionary of Liberal Quotations (Biteback, London, 2013).
Duncan Brack, Robert Ingham and Mark Pack, Great Liberal Speeches (Politico’s, London, 2001).
Duncan Brack and Ed Randall (eds), Dictionary of Liberal Thought (Politico’s, London, 2007).
Alan Bullock (ed.), The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1967).
Peter Clarke, Liberals and Social Democrats (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978).
Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 7 eds. (Macmillan, London, 1976).
Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-1976 (Macmillan, London, 1976).
_________, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-1984 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1984).
_________, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-1988 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989).
_________, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-1992 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1993).
_________, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-1997 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997).
_________, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-2001 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002).
_________, A Short History of the Liberal Party, The Road Back to Power (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2010).
R. J. Cruikshank, The Liberal Party (Collins, London, 1948).
Russell Deacon, The Welsh Liberals: The History of the Liberal and Liberal Democrat Parties in Wales (Welsh Academic Press, Cardiff, 2013).
Roy Douglas, The History of the Liberal Party 1895-1970 (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1971).
___________, Liberals: A History of the Liberal Democratic Parties (Hambledon Continuum, London, 2005).
Patrick Dunleavy and Christopher T. Husbands, British Democracy at the Crossroads: Voting and Party Competition in the 1980s (Allen & Unwin, London, 1985).
David Dutton, A History of the Liberal Party since 1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 20004 [1st ed.]).
David Dutton, A History of the Liberal Party since 1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013 [2nd ed.]).
Henry Hamilton Fyfe, The British Liberal Party: An Historical Sketch (Allen and Unwin, London, 1928).
Robert Ingham and Duncan Brack (eds), Peace, Reform and Liberation: A History of Liberal Politics in Britain, 1679-2011 (Biteback, London, 2011).
Roy Jenkins, The British Liberal Tradition (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2001).
R. B. McCallum, The Liberal Party from Earl Grey to Asquith (Victor Gollancz, London, 1963).
Henry Slesser, A History of the Liberal Party (Hutchinson, London, 1945).
Julie Smith, A Sense of Liberty: The History of Liberal International, 1947-1997 (Liberal International, London, 1997).
Alan Sykes, The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism, 1776-1988 (Longmans, London, 1997).

Liberal history pre-1688

Maurice Ashley, The Glorious Revolution of 1688 (Macmillan, London, 1966).
Oliver Cromwell
- Maurice Ashley, Oliver Cromwell: The Conservative Dictator (Macmillan, London, 1937).
- ____________, The Greatness of Oliver Cromwell (Macmillan, London, 1957).
- Christopher Hill, God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (Dial Press, London, 1970).
- John Morley, Life of Cromwell (Macmillan, London, 1900).
- C. V. Wedgwood, Oliver Cromwell (Duckworth, London, 1939).
Sir John Eliot
- Harold Hulme, The Life of Sir John Eliot, 1592-1632: Struggle for Parliamentary Freedom (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1957).
J. R. Jones, The First Whigs: The Politics of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-1683 (Oxford University Press, London, 1961, rev. 1971 ed.).
Harold J. Laski, The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in Interpretation (Allen & Unwin, London, 1936).
Ruth E. Mayers, 1659: The Crisis of the Commonwealth (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2004).
Conrad Russell, The Crisis of Parliaments: English History, 1509-1660 (London, 1971).
____________, Parliaments and English Politics, 1621-1629 (London, 1979).
____________, The Causes of the English Civil War (London, 1990).
____________, The Fall of the British Monarchies (London, 1991).
John Morley, Oliver Cromwell (Macmillan, London, 1900).
Harry Vane
- J. H. Adamson and H. F. Folland, Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times, 1613-1662 (Bodley Head, London, 1973).
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford
- C. V. Wedgwood, Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Stafford, 1593-1641: A Reevaluation (Jonathan Cape, London, 1961).

Liberal history from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution: 1688-1789

J. Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge, 1976).
P. D. Brown & K. W. Schweizer (eds), The Devonshire Diary (Camden Miscellany, 4th series, vol 27).
Reed Browning, The Duke of Newcastle (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1975).
_____________, Political and Constitutional Ideas of the Court Whigs (London, 1982).
Edmund Burke (T. W. Copeland and others (eds)), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, 10 vols. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1958-78).
- C. B. Macpherson, Burke (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980).
- Frank O’Gorman, Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy (Allen and Unwin, London, 1973).
Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time (Oxford, 1823).
John Cannon, The Fox-North Coalition: Crisis of the Constitution 1782-1784 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969).
__________, The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England (London, 1981).
E. Beresford Chancellor, The Lives of the Great Rakes, Volume I: “Old Rowley” (London: Philip Allan, 1925)
___________________, The Lives of the Great Rakes, Volume II: The Restoration Rakes – Buckingham, Rochester, Dorset, Sedley, Etheridge, Wycherley (London: Philip Allan, 1925)
___________________, The Lives of the Great Rakes, Volume III: Charteris and Wharton (London: Philip Allan, 1925)
___________________, The Lives of the Great Rakes, Volume IV: The Hell Fire Club – Sandwich, Dashwood, Wilkes, Churchill, etc. (London: Philip Allan, 1925)
___________________, The Lives of the Great Rakes, Volume V: “Old Q” and Barrymore (London: Philip Allan, 1925)
___________________, The Lives of the Great Rakes, Volume VI: The Regency Rakes: The Regent, Hertford, Hanger, etc. (London: Philip Allan, 1925)
I. R. Christie, Myth and Reality in Late Eighteenth-Century British Politics (London, 1970).
J. C. D. Clark, The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982).
H. T. Dickinson, Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth Century Britain (London, 1977).
George Bubb Dodington
- John Carswell and L. A. Dralle (eds), The Political Journal of George Bubb Dodington (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1965).
Ophelia Field , The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation (Harper Press, London, 2008).
Sir J. Fortescue (ed.), The Correspondence of King George III from 1760-December 1783. 6 vols. (London, 1973).
Edward Gibbon
- Roy Porter, Gibbon (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1988).
George Grenville
- Allen S. Johnson, A Prologue to Revolution: The Political Career of George Grenville (1718-1770) (University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1997).
- Philip Lawson, George Grenville: A Political Life (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984).
- W. J. Smith (ed.), The Grenville Papers, being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon. George Grenville, their Friends and Contemporaries (London, 1852-3).
Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey
- Paul David Nelson, Sir Charles Grey, First Earl Grey: Royal Soldier, Family Patriarch (Associated University Presses, 1996).
T. Harris, Politics Under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660-1715 (Harlow, 1993).
Roy Hattersley, The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation (Chatto and Windus, London, 2013).
William Hay
- Stephen Taylor and Clyve Jones (eds), Tory and Whig: The Parliamentary Papers of Edward Harley, Third Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, MP for Seaford, 1716-1753 (Boydell Press, Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust, London, 1998).
Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton
- Sir W. R. Anson (ed.), Autobiography and Political Correspondence of Augustus Henry 3rd Duke of Grafton (London, 1898).
B. W. Hill, The Growth of Parliamentary Parties, 1689-1742 (London, 1976).
________, British Parliamentary Parties, 1742-1832 (London, 1985).
Geoffrey Holmes, Politics, Religion and Society in England, 1679-1742 (Hambledon Press, London, 1986).
______________, British Politics in the Age of Anne (London, 1987 revised edn).
G. S. Holmes and W. A. Speck (eds), The Divided Society: Parties and Politics in England, 1694-1716 (London, 1967).
H. Horwitz, Parliament, Policy and Politics in the Reign of William III (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1977).
Clyve Jones (ed.), Party and Management in Parliament, 1660-1784 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1984).
______________, Britain in the First Age of Party 1680-1750: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Holmes (London, 1987).
D. L. Jones, A Parliamentary History Of The Glorious Revolution (London, 1988).
J. P. Kenyon, Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party, 1689-1720 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977).
Paul Langford, The First Rockingham Administration 1765-1766 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1973).
Harold J. Laski, The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in Interpretation (George Allen, London, 1936).
Richard Middleton, The Pitt-North Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years’ wAR, 1757-1762 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985).
J. J. Murray, George I, the Baltic and the Whig Split of 1717 (Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1969).
Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (Macmillan, London, 1957).
___________, England in the Age of the American Revolution (London, 1930).
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
- R. Browning, The Duke of Newcastle (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1975).
T. J. McCann, The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724-1750 (Sussex Record Society, Sussex, 1982-3).
A. N. Newman (ed.), Leicester House Politics, 1750-1760, from the Papers of John, 2nd Earl of Egmont (Camden Miscellany xxiii, 4th series, vol 7).
Frederick North, Lord North (later 2nd Earl of Guildford)
- John Cannon, Lord North: The Noble in the Blue Ribbon (Historical Association, London, 1970).
- Charles Daniel Smith, The Early Career of Lord North, the Prime Minister (Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1979).
- Alan Valentine, Lord North: Volume I (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1967).x
- ____________, Lord North: Volume II (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1967).
- Peter Whiteley, Lord North: The Prime Minister Who Lost America (Hambledon Continuum, London, 1996)
Frank O’Gorman, The Rise of Party in England: The Rockingham Whigs, 1760-1782 (London, 1975).
J. B. Owen, The Rise of the Pelhams (London, 1957).
Richard Pares, George III and the Politicians (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1953).
Henry Pelham
- J. Wilkes, A Whig in Power: The Political Career of Henry Pelham (Evanston, 1964).
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Stanley Ayling, The Elder Pitt, Earl of Chatham (Collins, London, 1976).
- Jeremy Black, Pitt the Elder (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).
- Peter Douglas Brown, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: The Great Commoner (Allen & Unwin, London, 1978).
- Edward Pearce, Pitt the Elder: Man of War (Bodley Head, London, 2010).
- M. Peters, Pitt and Popularity: The Patriot Minister and London Opinion During the Seven Years War (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980).
- J. H. Plumb, Chatham: Brief Lives (Collins, London, 1953).
- Earl of Rosebery, Chatham: His Early Life and Connections (London, 1910).
- A. F. B. Williams, The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 2 vols. (London, 1913).
J. H. Plumb, The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675-1725 (Macmillan, London, 1967).
J. G. A. Pocock, The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).
J. G. A. Pocock (ed.), Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1980).
J. O. Richards, Party Propaganda under Queen Anne: The General Elections of 1702-1713 (Athens Press, Georgia, 1972).
C. Robbins, The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman (Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1959).
George Rudé, Paris and London in the 18th Century: Studies in Popular Protest (Fontana/Collins, London, 1952 [1974 ed.]).
Lord John Russell, The Life of William, Lord Russell, 2 vols. (Longman, London, 1819).
John Sainsbury, Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America, 1769-1782 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 1987).
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- N. A. M. Rodger, The Insatiable Earl: The Life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich (HarperCollins, London, 1993).
Karl W. Schweizer (ed.), Lord Bute: Essays in Reinterpretation (Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1998).
George Augustus Selwyn
- John Heneage Jesse, George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, 2 vols. (Bentley, London, 1843).
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
- Edmond George Petty Fitzmaurice, Life of William, Earl of Shelburne (Macmillan, London, 1875).
- John Norris, Shelburne and Reform (Macmillan, London, 1963).
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
- W. M. Elofson, The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party, 1768–1773 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 1996).
- G. H. Guttridge, The Early Career of Lord Rockingham, 1730–1765 (University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1952).
- Ross J. S. Hoffman, The Marquis: A Study of Lord Rockingham, 1730–1782 (Fordham University Press, New York, 1973).
Adam Smith
- Ian Simpson Ross, The Life of Adam Smith: Second Edition (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010).
W.A. Speck, Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988).
__________, Tory and Whig: The Struggle in the Constituencies, 1701-1715 (London, 1970).
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
- Basil Williams, Stanhope: A Study in Eighteenth-Century War and Diplomacy (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1932).
Peter D. G. Thomas, George III: King and Politicians, 1760-1770 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002).
E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (Peregrine, London, 1977).
G. M. Trevelyan, England Under Queen Anne, 3 vols. (London, 1930-4).
_____________, The English Revolution (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1938).
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
- Jeremy Black, Walpole In Power: Britain’s First Prime Minister (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2001).
- Harry T. Dickinson, Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (English Universities Press, London, 1973).
- Brian W. Hill, Walpole: Sole and Prime Minister (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989).
- Edward Pearce, The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole – Scoundrel, Genius and Britain’s First Prime Minister (Jonathan Cape, London, 2007).
- J. H. Plumb, Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman (Cresset Press, London, 1956).
- _________, Sir Robert Walpole: The Kings Minister (Cresset Press, London, 1960).
Horace Walpole; John Brooke (ed.), Memoirs of the Reign of King George II, 3 vols. (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1985).
Horace Walpole; W.S. Lewis (ed.), Selected Letters of Horace Walpole (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1973).
J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760-1815 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960)
Josiah Wedgwood
- Robin Reilly, Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795 (Macmillan, London, 1992).
John Wilkes
- Horace Bleakly, Life of John Wilkes (Bodley Head, London, 1917).
- Arthur H. Cash, John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006).
- Louis Kronenberger, The Extaordinary Mr Wilkes: His Life and Times (New English Library, London, 1974).
- Raymond Postgate, The Devil Wilkes (Dennis Dobson, London, 1930, rev. 1956 ed.).
- George Rudé, Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study of 1763 to 1774 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1962).
- John Sainsbury, John Wilkes: The Lives of a Libertine (Ashgate, Sussex, 2006).
- O. A. Sherrard, A Life of John Wilkes (Allen & Unwin, London, 1930).
- William Purdie Treloar, Wilkes and the City (John Murray, London, 1917).
- Charles Chenevix Trench, Portrait of a Patriot: A Biography of John Wilkes (Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1962).
- Peter D. G. Thomas, John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996).
- John Selby Watson, Biographies of John Wilkes and William Cobbett (William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1870).
- John Wilkes, The Infamous Essay on Women, or John Wilkes, Seated Between Vice and Virtue (André Deutsch, London, 1972).
- Audrey Williamson, Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty (Allen & Unwin, London, 1974).
Basil Williams, Carteret and Newcastle: A Contrast in Contemporaries (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1943).
____________ [rev. C.H. Stuart], The Whig Supremacy, 1774-1760: Second Edition (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939, rev. 1962)
E.N. Williams (ed.), The Eighteenth Century Constitution (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1960).

Foxites, Whigs and Radicals: 1789-1832

John Addy, Parliamentary Elections and Reform, 1807-1832 (Longmans, London, 1961).
Henry Addington (later 1st Viscount Sidmouth)
- Charles John Fedorak, Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801–1804: Peace, War and Parliamentary Politics (University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio, 2002).
- Philip Ziegler, Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth (Collins, London, 1965).
Jeremy Bentham
- J. Dinwiddy, Bentham (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989).
- R. Harrison , Bentham (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1983).
- S. Mukherjee and S. Ramaswamy, Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832 (Deep and Deep, New Delhi, 1995).
Asa Briggs, The Age of Improvement (Longman, London, 1959).
Edmund Burke
- C.B. Macpherson, Burke (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980).
- Frank O’Gorman, Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy (Allen and Unwin, London, 1973).
Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes (eds), Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003).
John Cannon, Parliamentary Reform, 1640-1832 (Cambridge, 1973).
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, 2 vols (Chapman and Hall, London, 1892).
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
- John Bew, Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny (Quercus, London, 2011).
- ________, Castlereagh: A Life (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012).
- Christopher John Bartlett, Castlereagh (Macmillan, London, 1966).
- John W. Derry, Castlereagh (Allen Lane, London, 1976).
- Wendy Hinde, Castlereagh (Collins, London, 1981).
- Giles Hunt, The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry (I.B. Tauris/Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008).
- Mark Jarrett, The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon (I. B. Tauri, London, 2013).
- Thomas Lawrence and C. J. Bartlett, The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh, 1812–1815, Britain and the European Alliance (G. Bell, London, 1925).
- Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh, and the Problems of Peace, 1812–22 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1957).
- Ione Leigh, Castlereagh, (Collins, London, 1951).
- Bradford Perkins, Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823 (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964).
- Charles Webster, The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh, Volume I: 1812–1815 (London, 1931).
- _____________, The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh, Volume II: 1815–1822 (London, 1934).
William Cobbett
- Anthony Burton, William Cobbett: Englishman (Aurum Press, London, 1997).
- Karl W. Schweizer and John W. Osborne, Cobbett in His Times (Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1990).
John W. Derry, The Regency Crisis and the Whigs (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1963).
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Random House, New York, 1999).
George Dempster
- John Evans, The Gentleman Usher: The Life & Times of George Dempster, 1732-1818 (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2005).
Archibald S. Foord, His Majesty’s Opposition 1714-1830 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1964).
Charles James Fox
- Stanley Ayling, Fox (John Murray, London, 1991).
- I. M. Davies, The Harlot and the Statesman, the Story of Elizabeth Armistead and Charles James Fox (Bourne End, 1986).
- John W. Derry, Charles James Fox (B.T. Batsford, London, 1972).
- J. L. Hammond, Charles James Fox: A Political Study (London, 1903).
- Richard Payne Knight, A Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox (T. Payne, London, 1807).
- Dick Leonard and Mark Garnett, Titans: Fox vs. Pitt (I. B. Tauris, London, 2019).
- Edward Lascelles, The Life of Charles James Fox (Oxford University Press, London, 1936).
- Leslie Mitchell, Charles James Fox and the Disintegration of the Whig Party, 1782-1794 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1971).
- _____________, Charles James Fox (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992).
- Samuel Parr, Characters of the Late Charles James Fox (J. Mawman, Birmingham, 1809).
- David Powell, Charles James Fox: Man of the People (Hutchinson, London, 1989).
- Loren Reid, Charles James Fox: A Man for the People (London, 1969).
- Lord John Russell, Memorials and Correspondence of C.J. Fox, 4 vols. (Richard Bentley, London, 1853-7).
- _______________, The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, 3 vols. (London, 1859-66).
- D. Schweitzer, Charles James Fox, A Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991).
- George Otto Trevelyan, The Early History of Charles James Fox (Harper, New York, 1880).
- John Bernard Trotter, Memoirs of the Latter Years of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox (John Phillips, London, 1811).
- Henry Offley Wakeman, Charles James Fox (Gibbings and Son, London, 1909).
- B. C. Walpole, Charles Jams Fox (Grolier Society, London, c.1900)
- Stephen Wheeler (ed.), Charles James Fox: A Commentary of his Life and Character by Walter Savage Landor (John Murray, London, 1907).
- Irene Cooper Willis (ed.), Charles James Fox: Speeches During the French Revolution (Dent, London, 1924).
- J. Wright (ed.), The Speeches of the Right Hon C.J. Fox in the House of Commons, 6 vols. (London, 1815).
Norman Gash, Aristocracy and People, 1815-1830 (London, 1979).
Donald E. Ginter (ed.), Whig Organisation in the General Election of 1790 (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967).
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
- A. D. Harvey, Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 (Meckler, 1989).
- Peter Jupp, Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985).
Henry Hunt, Memoirs, 3 vols. (London, 1820–2).
- John Belchem, ‘Orator’ Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working Class Radicalism (London, 1985).
Charles Lamb
- Lord David Cecil, A Portrait of Charles Lamb (Constable, London, 1978).
Simon Maccoby, English Radicalism 1786–1832 (London, 1935).
Joyce Marlow, The Peterloo Massacre (Panther, London, 1971).
Austin Mitchell, The Whigs in Opposition 1815–1830 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1967).
Leslie Mitchell, Holland House (London, 1980).
____________, The Whig World: 1760-1837 (Hambledon Continuum, London, 2005).
Frank O’Gorman, The Whig Party and the French Revolution (London, 1967).
______________, The Emergence of the British Two-Party System, 1760-1832 (Edward Arnold, London, 1982).
______________, Voters, Patrons and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England, 1734-1832 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989).
Henry John Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
- B. Connell, Portrait of a Whig Peer, compiled from the papers of the 2nd Viscount Palmerston (London, 1957).
John A. Phillips, Electoral Behaviour in Unreformed England, Plumpers, Splitters and Straights (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1982).
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
- David Wilkinson, The Duke of Portland: Politics and Party in the Age of George III (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002).
D. Read, Peterloo: The Massacre and its Background (London, 1958).
M. Roberts, The Whig Party, 1807-1812 (London, 1939).
J. J. Sack, The Grenvillites, 1801-1829, Party Politics and Factionalism in the Age of Pitt and Liverpool (Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1979)
E. A. Smith, Whig Principles and Party Politics (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1975).
William Smith
- Jenny Handley and Hazel Lake, Progress of Persuasion: The Life of William Smith, 1756-1835 (Privately printed, London, 2007).
George Tierney
- K.H. Olphin, George Tierney (London, 1934).
E. A. Wasson, Whig Renaissance: Lord Althorp and the Whig Party, 1782-1845 (Garland Publishing, New York, 1987).
Samuel Whitbread
- Roger Fulford, Samuel Whitbread, 1764-1815: A Study in Opposition (Macmillan, London, 1967).
- Dean Rapp, Samuel Whitbread (1764-1815): A Social and Political Study (London, 1987).

Liberal history in the Age of Reform & Early Victorian Era; 1832-1867

George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
- F. Balfour, Life of George Hamilton Gordon, Fourth Earl of Aberdeen, 2 vols. (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1922).
- Muriel Chamberlain, Lord Aberdeen: A Political Biography (Longman, London, 1983).
- Sir A. Gordon, The Earl of Aberdeen (London, 1983).
- L. Iremonger, Lord Aberdeen (Collins, London, 1978).
- E. Jones Parry (ed.), Correspondence of Lord Aberdeen and Princess Lieven, 2 vols. (Camden Society, 3rd series, 60, 62, London, 1938).
- Lord Stanmore, The Earl of Aberdeen (Sampson Low, London, 1893).
Marc Baer, The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster 1780-1890 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Edward Baines
- Edward Baines, The Life of Edward Baines, Late MP for the Borough of Leeds (Longman, London, 1851).
- David Thornton, Mr. Mercury: A Life of Edward Baines, 1774-1848 (Merton Priory Press, 1999).
Samuel Bamford, Passages in the Life of a Radical, 2 vols. (1841-1843)
Richard Brent, Liberal Anglican Politics, Religion and Reform, 1830-1841 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987).
Henry Brougham, The Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham Written by Himself, 3 vols. (London, 1871).
- Arthur Aspinall, Lord Brougham and the Whig Party (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1939).
- Robert Stewart, Henry Brougham, 1778-1868: His Public Career (Bodley Head, London, 1985).
John Bright, Speeches on Parliamentary Reform by John Bright MP, Revised by Himself (London, 1866).
- H. Ausubel, John Bright: Victorian Reformer (London, 1966).
- Philip Bright (ed.) The Diaries of John Bright (London, 1930).
- Bill Cash, John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator (I.B. Tauris, Edinburgh, 2011).
- H. J. Leech (ed.), Public Letters of the Right Hon John Bright MP (London, 1885).
- J. T. Mills, John Bright and the Quakers, 2 vols. (London, 1935).
- R. B. O’Brien, John Bright (London, 1910).
- Keith Robbins, John Bright (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1979).
- W. Robertson, The Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright (London, 1877).
- J. E. Thorold Rogers (ed.), Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by John Bright MP, 2 vols. (London, 1869).
- _____________________, John Bright: Public Addresses, 8 vols. (London, 1879).
- J. B. Smith, The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon John Bright, 2 vols. (London, 1881).
- J. L. Sturgis, John Bright and the Empire (London, 1969).
Michael Brock, The Great Reform Act (Hutchinson, London, 1973).
J. R. M. Butler, The Passing of the Great Reform Bill (Longman, London, 1914).
David Cannadine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990).
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus / Lectures on Heroes / Chartism / Past and Present (Chapman and Hall, London, 1894).
Edwin Chadwick
- Anthony Brundage, England’s “Prussian Minister”: Edwin Chadwick and the Politics of Government Growth, 1832-1854 (Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1988).
Richard Cobden
- Ashworth, Recollections of Richard Cobden and the Anti-Corn Law League (London, 1876).
- John Bright and J.E. Thorold Rogers (eds), The Political Writings of Richard Cobden (London, 1867).
- __________________________________, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden (London, 1870).
- Nicholas C. Edsall, Richard Cobden: Independent Radical (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986).
- W. Hinde, Richard Cobden: A Victorian Outsider (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1987).
- J.A. Hobson, Richard Cobden: The International Man (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1918).
- Anthony Howe (ed.), The Letters of Richard Cobden, Volume I: 1815-1847 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008).
- ________________, The Letters of Richard Cobden, Volume II: 1848-1853 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010).
- Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan (eds), The Letters of Richard Cobden, Volume III: 1854-1859 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012).
- _________________________________, The Letters of Richard Cobden, Volume IV: 1859-1865 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015).
- _________________________________, Rethinking Nineteenth Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays (Ashgate, Sussex, 2006).
- D. Read, Cobden and Bright: A Victorian Political Partnership (London, 1967).
- John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1920).
- Miles Taylor (ed.), The European Diaries of Richard Cobden (Scolar Press, 1994).
J. B. Conacher, The Aberdeen Coalition,1852-1855: A Study in Mid-Nineteenth Century Politics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1968).
___________, The Peelites and the Party System, 1846-52 (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972).
Joseph Coohill, Ideas of the Liberal Party: Perceptions, Agendas and Liberal Politics in the House of Commons, 1832-1852 (Wiley-Blackwell, Edinburgh, 2012).
Maurice Cowling, 1867: Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967).
Gary Cox, The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987).
Richard W. Davis (ed.), Lords of Parliament: Studies, 1714-1914 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1995).
John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
- Stuart J. Reid, Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792-1840, 2 vols. (Longmans, London, 1906).
Eric J. Evans, The Great Reform Act of 1832 (Longman, London, 1983).
William Ewart
- W.A. Munford, William Ewart M.P.: Portrait of a Radical (Grafton, London, 1960).
Norman Gash, Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of Representation, 1830-1850 (Longman, London, 1953).
Sir James Graham
- Arvel B. Erickson, The Public Career of Sir James Graham (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1952).
Charles Greville
- Lytton Strachey and Roger Fulford, The Greville Memoirs, 10 vols. (Macmillan, London, 1938).
- Roger Fulford, The Greville Memoirs (B.T. Batsford, London, 1963).
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
- John W. Derry, Charles, Earl Grey: Aristocratic Reformer (Blackwell, Oxford, 1992).
- Charles Grey, Life and Opinions of Charles, Second Earl Grey (London, 1861).
- E. A. Smith, Lord Grey, 1764-1845 (London, 1990).
- G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill: Being the Life of Charles, Second Earl Grey (Longmans, London, 1920).
Rees Howell Gronow, The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow (John C. Nimmo, London, 1890).
J. L. and Barbara Hammond, The Age of the Chartists, 1832-1854 (London, 1930).
H. J. Hanham, Elections and Party Management: Politics in the Time of Disraeli and Gladstone (Longman, London, 1959).
Brian Harrison, Drink & the Victorians: The Temperance Question in England, 1815-1972 (Faber and Faber, London, 1971).
David A. Haury, The Origins of the Liberal Party and Liberal Imperialism: The Career of Charles Buller, 1806-1848 (Garland, New York, 1987).
Angus Hawkins, Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain,1855-1859 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1987).
_____________, British Party Politics, 1852-1886 (Macmillan, London, 1998).
_____________, Victorian Political Culture: Habits of Heart and Mind (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015).
Lord Hervey
- Romney Sedgwick, Lord Hervey’s Memoirs: Revised Edition (B.T. Batsford, London, 1963).
- Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
- Henry Richard Vassall, Lord Holland; Henry Edward, Lord Holland (ed.), Memoirs of the Whig Party During My Time, 2 vols. (London, 1852-4).
- Henry Richard Vassall, Lord Holland; G. Fox-Strangways, Lord Stavordale (ed.), Further Memoirs of the Whig Party, 1807-1821 (1905).
Theodore K. Hoppen, Elections, Politics and Society in Ireland, 1832-1885 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984).
_________________, Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity (London, 1989)
Anthony Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Joseph Hume
- Valerie Chancellor, The Political Life of Joseph Hume, 1777–1855 (privately printed, 1986).
Ronald K. Huch and Paul R. Ziegler, Joseph Hume: The People’s MP (Diane Publishing, Philadelphia, 1985).
I. G. C. Hutchison, A Political History of Scotland, 1832-1924 (Edinburgh, 1986).
Richard Huzzey, Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2012).
Edwin Jaggard, Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885 (Boydell, London, 1999).
T. A. Jenkins, The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830-1886 (Macmillan, London, 1994).
__________, Parliament, Party and Politics in Victorian Britain (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1996).
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, Kentish Family (Methuen, London, 1960).
Abraham D. Kriegel (ed.), The Holland House Diaries 1831-1840 (Routledge Keegan & Paul, London, 1977).
Alexander Llewelyn, The Decade of Reform: The 1830s (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972).
William C. Lubenow, Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh (Boydell and Brewer, London, 2010).
Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England, 5 vols. (London, 1848-61).
________________________, Speeches on Politics & Literature, 4 vols. (London, 1848-61).
________________________, Critical & Historical Essays, 2 vols. (London, 1907).
- John Clive, Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (London, 1975).
- Joseph Hamburger, Macaulay and the Whig Tradition (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1976).
- T. Pinney (ed.), Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974-81).
- G. O. Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Longman, London, 1876).
Simon Maccoby, English Radicalism 1832–1886, 5 vols. (George Allen & Unwin, 1935-61).
G. I. T. Machin, Politics and the Churches in Great Britain, 1832-1868 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977).
____________, Politics and the Churches in Great Britain, 1869-1921 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987).
Peter Mandler, Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals, 1830-1852 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990).
Norman McCord, The Anti-Corn Law League, 1838-1846 (Allen & Unwin, London, 1958).
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
- David Cecil, The Young Melbourne (Constable, London, 1939).
- __________, Lord M. (Constable, London, 1954).
- __________, Melbourne (Constable, London, 1954).
- Dorothy Marshall, Lord Melbourne (London, 1976).
- Leslie Mitchell, Lord Melbourne: 1779-1848 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997).
- Lloyd Charles Sanders (ed.), Lord Melbourne’s Papers (London, 1889).
- Philip Ziegler, Melbourne: A Life of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Collins, London, 1978).
John Stuart Mill, An Autobiography (London, 1870).
- Chris Barker, Educating Liberty: Democracy and Aristocracy in J. S. Mill’s Political Thought (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, New York, 2018).
- Nicholas Capaldi, John Stuart Mill: A Biography (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004).
- Joseph Hamburger, Intellectuals in Politics: John Stuart Mill and the Philosophic Radicals (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1966).
- Michael St. John Packe, The Life of John Stuart Mill (Macmillan, London, 1952).
- Richard Reeves, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, London, 2007).
- Dennis Thompson, John Stuart Mill and Representative Government (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976).
Kenneth O. Morgan, The Great Reform Act of 1832 (Reform Club, London, 2001).
James Murphy, Church, State and Schools in Britain, 1800-1970 (London, 1971).
Ian Newbould, Whiggery and Reform, 1830-1841: The Politics of Government (Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1990).
Daniel O’Connor
- A. D. Macintyre, The Liberator, Daniel O’Connor and the Irish Party, 1830-1847, (London, 1965).
John O’Connor Power
- Jane Stafford, That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O’Connor Power (The History Press, Dublin, 2011).
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
- H. C. F. Bell, Lord Palmerston, 2 vols. (London, 1936).
- Kenneth Bourne, Palmerston: The Early Years, 1784-1841 (Allen Lane, London, 1982).
- _____________, The Foreign Policy of Victorian England, 1830-1902 (London, 1970).
- Kenneth Bourne (ed.), The Letters of the Third Viscount Palmerston to Laurence and Elizabeth Sulivan (Royal Historical Society/Camden Fourth Series, London, 1979).
- David Brown, Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1846-1855 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002).
- ___________, Palmerston: A Biography (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2010).
- David Brown and Miles Taylor (eds), Palmerston Studies I (Hartley Institute, Southampton, 2007).
- ______________________________, Palmerston Studies II (Hartley Institute, Southampton, 2007).
- James Chambers, Palmerston: The People’s Darling (John Murray, London, 2004).
- Philip Guedalla, Palmerston (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926, 1937 edition).
- Philip Guedalla (ed.), The Palmerston Papers: Correspondence of Lord Palmerston with Mr. Gladstone, 1851-1865 (London, 1928).
- Denis Judd, Palmerston (London, 1975).
- T. Lever (ed.), The Letters of Lady Palmerston (London, 1957).
- Marquess of Lorne, Viscount Palmerston, K.G. (Nonsuch, London, 2007 [first pub. 1892]).
- M. S. Partridge and K. E. Partridge, Lord Palmerston (London, 1994).
- Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (Dutton, London, 1971).
- Nigel Scotland, ‘Good and Proper Men’: Lord Palmerston and the Bench of Bishops (James Clarke, Cambridge, 2000).
- E. D. Steele, Palmerston and Liberalism, 1855-1865 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991).
- Lord Sudley (ed.), The Lieven-Palmerston Correspondence, 1828-1856 (London, 1943).
- Sir H.L. Bulwer and A.E.M. Ashley, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, 6 vols. (London, 1870-6).
- Sir H. L. Bulwer, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Vol. 1 (London, 1870).
- _____________, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Vol. 11 (London, 1871).
- _____________, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Vol. 111 (London, 1872).
- A. E. M. Ashley, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Vol. IV (London, 1874).
- ____________, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Vol. V (London, 1875).
- ____________, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Vol. VI (London, 1876).
- B. Connell, Regina v Palmerston: The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Her Foreign and Prime Minister, 1837-1865 (London, 1962).
Joseph Parkes
- Jessie Buckley, Joseph Parkes of Birmingham; and the part which he played in radical reform movements from 1825 to 1845 (Methuen, London, 1926).
Jonathan Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993).
____________, The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830-1886 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007).
Sir Robert Peel
- Norman Gash, Mr Secretary Peel (Longman, London, 1961).
- ___________, Sir Robert Peel (Longman, London, 1972).
- ___________, Peel (Longman, London, 1975).
- Richard Gaunt, Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy (I.B. Tauris, Edinburgh, 2010).
- Douglas Hurd, Robert Peel (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2007).
- T.A. Jenkins, Sir Robert Peel (Macmillan, London, 1999).
John A. Phillips, The Great Reform Bill in the Boroughs: English Electoral Behaviour, 1818-1841 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992).
Paul Pickering and Alex Tyrrell, The People’s Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League (Leicester University Press, Leicester, 2000).
Archibald Prentice, The History of the Anti-Corn Law League, 2 vols. (Routledge, London, 1968 reprint of 1853 books).
John Prest, Politics in the Age of Cobden (Macmillan, London, 1977).
K. H. Randell, Politics and the People, 1835-1850 (Collins, London, 1972).
Keith Robbins, Politicians, Diplomacy and War in Modern British History (The Hambledon Press, London, 1994).
John Arthur Roebuck
- R. E. Leader, The Life and Letters of John Arthur Roebuck (London, 1879).
Edward Royle, Radical Politics, 1790-1900: Religion and Unbelief (London, 1971).
Lord John Russell, Essays and Sketches of Life (London, 1820)
_______________, An Essay of the History of the English Government and Constitution (London, 1822).
_______________, The Nun of Arrouca (London, 1822).
_______________ (as Earl Russell), The Speeches of Earl Russell (London, 1870).
_____________________________, Recollections and Suggestions, 1813-1873 (London, 1875).
- John Prest, Lord John Russell (University of South Carolina Press, South Carolina, 1972).
- Paul Scherer, Lord John Russell: A Biography (Associated University Press, New York, 1999).
- Spencer Walpole, Lord John Russell, 2 vols. (Longmans, London, 1889).
- A. Wyatt Tilby, Lord John Russell: A Study in Civil and Religious Liberty (Cassell, London, 1930).
Philip Salmon, Electoral Reform at Work: Local Politics and National Parties, 1832-1841 (Boydell, London, 2002).
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, The Rise of Free Trade (London, 1997).
G. R. Searle, Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993).
Caroline Shenton, The Day Parliament Burned Down (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012).
_________, The House of Lords in British Politics and Society, 1815-1911 (Longman, London, 1992).
F. B. Smith, The Making of the Second Reform Act (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1966).
Donald Southgate, The Passing of the Whigs,1832-1886 (Macmillan, London, 1962).
_______________, The Most English Minister (London, 1966).
E. D. Steele, Irish Land and British Politics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974).
Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe, Victorian Radicals and Italian Democrats (Woodbridge: Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 2014).
James Taylor, Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870 (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2006).
Miles Taylor, The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847-1860 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995).
William Thomas, The Philosophic Radicals: Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817-1841 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1979)
Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007).
James Vernon, Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c.1815-1867 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993).
Marjorie Villiers, The Grand Whiggery (John Murray, London, 1939).
John Vincent, The Formation of the British Liberal Party, 1857-1868 (Constable, London, 1966).
___________, Pollbooks: How Victorians Voted (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967).
Duncan Watts, Whigs, Radicals and Liberals, 1815-1914 (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1995).
Benjamin Weinstein, Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian London (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2011).
William White, The Inner Life of the House of Commons, 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin, London [3rd ed.], 1904).
Llewelyn Woodward, The Age of Reform, 1815-1870 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1962).
D. G. Wright, Democracy and Reform, 1815-1885 (Longman, London, 1970).

Late Victorian Liberal history; 1868-1901

Thomas Dyke Acland and Arthur H.D. Acland, Memoir and Letters of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (London, 1902).
Lord Acton, The History of Freedom, and Other Essays (Macmillan, London, 1907).
Lord Acton; J. Rufus Fears (ed.), Lord Acton Essays, 6 vols. (London, 1985).
_________________________, Essays in the History of Liberty, 2 vols. (London, 1985).
_________________________, Essays in the Study and Writing of Liberty, 2 vols. (London, 1986).
_________________________, Essays in Religion, Politics and Morality, 2 vols. (London, 1988).
- Joseph Altholz, Damian McElrath and James C. Holland (eds), The Correspondence of Lord Acton and Richard Simpson, 3 vols. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1971-5).
- Roland Hill, Lord Acton (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000).
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Politics and Conscience (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1962).
- Hugh Tulloch, Acton (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989).
Paul Adelman, Victorian Radicalism: The Middle-Class Experience, 1830-1914 (Longman, London, 1984).
Olive Anderson, A Liberal State at War (Macmillan, London, 1967).
Joseph Arch
- Joseph Arch; John Gerard O’Leary (ed.), The Autobiography of Joseph Arch (MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1966).
- Joseph Arch, From Ploughtail to Parliament: An Autobiography of Joseph Arch (Cresset Press, London, 1986).
Duke of Argyll, Autobiography and Memoirs (London, 1906).
Dudley W.R. Bahlman (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 2 vols. (London, 1972).
James Allen Baker
- Philip Noel Baker and Elizabeth Balmer Baker, J. Allen Baker: A Memoir (Swarthmore Press, London, 1927).
Jabez Balfour
- David McKie, Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scandal (Atlantic Books, London, 2005).
Samuel Bamford, Passages in the Life of a Radical (London, 1843).
Charles A. Barker, Henry George (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1955).
R. Bellamy (ed.), Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth Century Political Thought and Practice (Routledge, London, 1990).
A. C. Benson, Viscount Esher and George Buckle (eds), The Letters of Queen Victoria, 9 vols. (John Murray, London, 1907-30).
A. C. Benson and Viscount Esher (eds), The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837-1861, 3 vols. (John Murray, London, 1907).
George Buckle (ed.), The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1862-1885, 3 vols. (John Murray, London, 1926-8).
George Buckle (ed.), The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1886-1901, 3 vols. (John Murray, London, 1930).
Michael Bentley, Politics Without Democracy, 1815-1914 (Fontana, London, 1984).
Michael Bentley, Politics Without Democracy, 1815-1914 (Blackwell, Oxford, 1996 [rev. ed.]).
_____________, The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice, 1868-1918 (Michael Joseph, London, 1987).
Eugenio F. Biagini, Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone,1860-1880 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).
_______________, Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles,1865-1931 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996).
_______________, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism,1876-1906 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007).
Eugenio F. Biagini and Alastair J. Reid (eds), Currents of Radicalism: Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850-1914 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1991).
Augustine Birrell, In the Name of the Bodleian – And Other Essays (Elliot Stock, London, 1906).
______________, Things Past Redress (Faber and Faber, London, 1937).
- Leon O’Broin, The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland (Chatto & Windus, London, 1969).
Thomas Gibson Bowles
- Leonard E. Naylor, The Irrepressible Victorian: The Story of Thomas Gibson Bowles (Macdonald, London, 1965).
Charles Bradlaugh
- W. L. Arnstein, The Bradlaugh Case: A Study in Late Victorian Opinion and Politics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1965).
- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner; J.M. Robertson (ed.), Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work by His Daughter, With an Account of His Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings, 2 vols (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1898).
- Bryan Niblett, Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh, Atheist and Republican (Kramedart Press, London, 2010).
- J. Saville (ed.), A Selection of the Political Pamphlets of Charles Bradlaugh (Augustus Kelley, London, 1970).
- David Tribe, President Charles Bradlaugh MP (Elek Books, London, 1971).
Ian Bradley, The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Literature (Faber & Faber, London, 1980).
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
- Arthur H. Loring and Robert John Bea (eds.), Thomas Brassey Brassey: Papers and Addresses – Imperial Federation and Colonisation, 1880 to 1894 (Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1895).
Jacob Bright
- Ursula Bright (ed.), Jacob Bright: Speeches (Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London, 1885).
Oscar Browning
- Ian Anstruther, Oscar Browning: A Biography (London, 1983).
- H. E. Wortham,Victorian Eton and Cambridge: Being the Life and Times of Oscar Browning (Barker, London, 1956).
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
- H. A. L. Fisher, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, 2 vols. (London, 1927).
J. Butler, The Liberal Party and the Jameson Raid (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1968).
Ian Cawood, The Liberal Unionists: A History (I.B. Tauris, London, 2012).
Joseph Chamberlain (ed.), The Radical Programme (Chapman and Hall, London, 1885).
Joseph Chamberlain; C.H.D. Howard (ed.), A Political Memoir 1880-1892 (The Batchworth Press, London, 1953).
- Charles W. Boyd (ed.), Mr. Chamberlain’s Speeches, 2 vols (London, 1914).
- Harry Browne, Joseph Chamberlain: Radical and Imperialist (Longman, London, 1974).
- Ian Cawood and Chris Upton (eds), Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2016).
- J. A. Garvin & Julian Amery, Life of Joseph Chamberlain, 6 vols. (Macmillan, London, 1935-69).
- D. A. Hamer (ed.), Joseph Chamberlain & Others, The Radical Programme (1885) (London, 1971).
- Richard Jay, Joseph Chamberlain (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981).
- Denis Judd, Radical Joe: A Life of Joseph Chamberlain (University of Wales Press, Aberystwyth, 1993).
- Robert V. Kubicek, The Administration of Imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office (London, 1969).
- Henry W. Lucy, Speeches of J. Chamberlain (London, 1885).
- Peter Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994).
- Enoch Powell, Joseph Chamberlain (Michael Joseph, London, 1977).
- Andrew Reekes, The Birmingham Political Machine: Winning Elections for Joseph Chamberlain (West Midlands History Limitedm, Birmingham, 2018).
Sir Edward Clarke, The Story of My Life (John Murray, London, 1923).
Jeremiah James Colman
- Helen Caroline Colman, Jeremiah James Colman: A Memoir (Chiswick Press, London, 1905).
Stefan Collini, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991).
A. B. Cooke and John Vincent, The Governing Passion: Cabinet Government and Party Politics, 1885-6 (Harvester Press, Sussex, 1974).
John Corbett
- John Richard Hodges, John Corbett, 1817-1901: The Worcestershire Salt King, Volume One (Privately printed, Droitwich, 2010).
Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
- G. P. Gooch, Life of Lord Courtney, 2 vols. (London, 1920).
Joseph Cowen
- Joan Allen, Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside, 1829-1900 (Merlin Press, London, 2007).
Morrison Davidson, Eminent Radicals In and Out of Parliament (London, 1880).
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
- Bernard Holland, Life of the Duke of Devonshire, 2 vols. (London, 1911).
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
- Bernard Holland, Life of the Eighth Duke of Devonshire, 1833-1908 (London, 1911).
- Patrick Jackson, The Last of the Whigs: A Political Biography of Lord Hartington, Later the Eighth Duke of Devonshire (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994).
Sir Charles Dilke
- Stephen Gwynn and Gertrude N. Tuckwell, The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Dilke MP, 2 vols (John Murray, London, 1917).
- Roy Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy (Collins, London, 1958 [rev. ed. 1965]).
- David Nicholls, The Lost Prime Minister: A Life of Sir Charles Dilke (Hambledon Press, London, 1995).
George Dixon
- James Dixon, Out of Birmingham: George Dixon (1820-98), ‘Father of free education’ (Brewin Books, Studley, 2013).
Brian Farrell (ed.), The Irish Parliamentary Tradition (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1973).
E. J. Feuchtwanger, Democracy and Empire: Britain, 1865-1914 (Edward Arnold, London, 1985).
W. E. Forster
- Patrick Jackson, Education Act Forster: A Political Biography of W.E. Forster, 1818-1886 (Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1997).
- T. Wemyss Reid, Life of the Rt Hon W.E. Forster (London, 1888).
Roy Foster, Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (London, 1988).
Edith Henrietta Fowler, The Life of Henry Hartley Fowler, First Viscount Wolverhampton, GCSI (Hutchinson, London, 1912).
Michael Freeden (ed.), The Minutes of the Rainbow Circle, 1894-1924, edited and annotated (Royal Historical Society/Camden New Series, London, 1989).
Charles Geake (ed.), Appreciations and Addresses Delivered by Lord Rosebery (John Lane, London, 1894).
Henry George
- Elwood P. Lawrence, Henry George in the British Isles (Michigan State University Press, Michigan, 1957).
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
- Percy Colson (ed.), Lord Goschen and His Friends (London, 1946).
- George Goschen, The Theory of Foreign Exchanges (London, 1861).
- Thomas Spinner, George Joachim Goschen: The Transformation of a Victorian Liberal (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973).
Elie Halévy (trans. E. I. Watkin), England in 1815: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1815-1830, Volume 1 (Ernest Benn, London, 1949; first pub. (in French), 1913).
__________________________, The Liberal Awakening: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1815-1830, Volume 2 (Ernest Benn, London, 1949; first pub. (in French), 1923).
__________________________, The Triumph of Reform: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1830-1841, Volume 3 (Ernest Benn, London, 1950; first pub. (in French), 1923).
__________________________, Victorian Years, Incorporating ‘The Age of Peel and Cobden’ : Halévy’s History of the English People, 1841-1895, Volume 4 (Ernest Benn, London, 1951; first pub. (in French), 1948).
__________________________, Imperialism and the Rise of Labour : Halévy’s History of the English People, 1895-1905, Volume 5 (Ernest Benn, London, 1951; first pub. (in French), 1926).
__________________________, The Rule of Democracy: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1905-1914, Volume 6, Book I (Ernest Benn, London, 1952; first pub. (in French), 1932).
__________________________, The Rule of Democracy: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1905-1914, Volume 6, Book II (Ernest Benn, London, 1952; first pub. (in French), 1932 ).
D. A Hamer, Liberal Politics in the Age of Gladstone and Rosebery (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972).
__________, The Politics of Electoral Pressure (Harvester Press, Sussex, 1977).
Sir William Vernon Harcourt
- A. G. Gardiner, The Life of Sir William Harcourt, 2 vols. (Constable, London, 1923).
Christopher Harvie, The Lights of Liberalism: University Liberals and the Challenge of Democracy, 1860-1886 (Allen Lane, London, 1976).
Auberon Herbert
- S. Hutchinson Harris, Auberon Herbert: Crusader for Liberty (Williams and Norgate, London, 1943).
T. W. Heyck, The Dimensions of British Radicalism: The Case of Ireland, 1874-1895 (Chicago University Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1974).
George Jacob Holyoake, Self Help by the People (London, 1858).
___________________, Sixty Years of an Agitator’s Life, 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892).
___________________, History of Co-Operation, 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1905).
___________________, Bygones Worth Remembering , 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1905).
- L. E. Grugel, George Jacob Holyoake: A Study in the Evolution of a Victorian Radical (Porcupine Press, London, 1976).
- J. McCabe, Life and Letters of George Jacob Holyoake, 2 vols. (Watts & Co., London, 1908).
Edwin Jaggard (ed.), Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers Of A. Pendarves Vivian MP (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter, 1999).
Patricia Jalland, The Liberals and Ireland: The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914 (London, 1980).
Roy Jenkins, The Chancellors (Macmillan, London, 1998).
T. A. Jenkins, Gladstone, Whiggery and the Liberal Party, 1874-1886 (Clarendon Press, Oxford,1988).
Andrew Jones, The Politics of Reform, 1884 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1972).
Patrick Joyce, Work, Society and Politics (Methuen, London, 1982).
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
- Ethel Drus (ed.), A Journal of Events During the Gladstone Ministry, 1868-74, by John, First Earl of Kimberley (Royal Historical Society, Camden Series, 21, London, 1958).
- Angus Hawkins and John Powell (eds), The Journal of John Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley for 1862-1902 (Royal Historical Society, London, 1997).
- John Powell, Liberal By Principle: The Politics of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (Historians’ Press, London, 1996).
Bruce Kinzer, The Ballot Question in Nineteenth Century English Politics (Garland, New York, 1982).
Steven Koss, Nonconformity in Modern British Politics (B.T. Batsford, London, 1975).
Henry Labouchere
- Algar Labouchere Thorold, The Life of Henry Labouchere (London, 1913).
- Hesketh Pearson, Labby: The Life of Henry Labouchere (London, 1936).
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
- Simon Kerry, Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig (Unicorn, London, 2017).
Jon Lawrence, Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics From Hogarth to Blair (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009).
G. H. L. Le May, The Victorian Constitution (Duckworth, London, 1979).
T. O. Lloyd, The General Election of 1880 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1968).
Robert Lowe
- Ruth Knight, Illiberal Liberal: Robert Lowe in New South Wales, 1842–1850 (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966).
- A. Patchett Martin, Life and Letters of the Rt Hon Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke (Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1893).
- James P. Winter, Robert Lowe (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1976).
Sir John Lubbock, Representation (Swann Sonnenschein, London, 1885).
- Horace Hutchinson, Life of Sir John Lubbock (London, 1914).
- Michael Thompson, Darwin’s Pupil: The Place of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury, 1834-1913, in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (Melrose Books, London, 2009).
William C. Lubenow, Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: The British House of Commons in 1886 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988).
Patricia Lynch, The Liberal Party in Rural England, 1885-1910: Radicalism and Community (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003).
Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (Macmillan, London, 1890, 1938 ed.).
Justin McCarthy, British Political Leaders (London, 1904).
Duncan McLaren
- J.B. Mackie, The Life and Works of Duncan McLaren (London, 1888)
Kenneth O. Morgan, Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1991 [rev. 4th ed., 1st pub. 1963]).
A. J. Mundella
- W. H. G. Armytage, A.J. Mundella, 1825-1897: The Liberal Background to the Labour Movement (Ernest Benn, London, 1951).
Dadabhai Naioroji
- Zerbanoo Gifford, Dadabhai Naoroji: Britain’s First Asian MP (Mantra Lingua, London, 1992).
- M. A. Khan and N. P. Sharma, Dadabhai Naoroji (Himalayan Press, London, 2011).Z
- R. P. Masani, Dadabhai Naoroji: The Grand Old Man of India (London, 1939).
- Sri Ram Mehrotra and Dinyar Patel (eds), Dadabhai Naoroji: Selected Private Papers (Oxford University Press India, New Delhi, 2016).
- Dinyar Patel, Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2020).
- R. P. Patwardhan, The Correspondence of Dadabhai Naoroji (New Delhi, 1977).
- A. Moin Zaidi (ed.), The Grand Little Man of India: Dadabhai Naoroji – Speeches and Writings (Calcutta, 1917).
T. P. O’Connor, The Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian, 2 vols. (London, 1929).
- Hamilton Fyfe, T.P. O’Connor (Allen & Unwin, London, 1934).
Avner Offer, Property and Politics, 1870-1914 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981).
M. Ostrogorski, Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, 2 vols (Macmillan, New York, 1970 reprint from 1902).
James Owen, Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2014).
Jonathan Parry, Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party 1867-1875 (Cambridge University Press,Cambridge,1989).
Charles Stuart Parnell
- F. S. L. Lyons, The Fall of Parnell (London, 1960).
- Alan O’Day, Parnell and the First Home Rule Episode, 1884-7 (Dublin 1986).
Gordon Pentland, Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820-1833 (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2008).
Henry Pelling, Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910 (Macmillan, London, 1967).
Andrew Reid (ed.), Why I Am a Liberal: Being Definitions and Personal Confessions of Faith by the Best Minds of the Liberal Party (Cassell, London, 1885).
Lord Rosebery (Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery), Pitt (Macmillan, London, 1904).
- David Brooks (ed.) The Destruction of Lord Rosebery: From the Diary of Sir Edward Hamilton, 1894-1895 (London, 1986).
- John Buchan (ed.), Lord Rosebery: Miscellanies Literary and Historical, 2 vols. (London, 1921).
- T. G. F. Coates, Lord Rosebery: His Life and Speeches (London, 1900).
- Lord Crewe, Lord Rosebery, 2 vols (John Murray, London, 1931).
- Leo McKinstry, Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil (John Murray, London, 2005).
- E. T. Raymond, The Man of Promise: Lord Rosebery – A Critical Study (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1923)
- Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1964).
Michael Rush, The Role of the Member of Parliament Since 1868: From Gentlemen to Players (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001).
Bernard Semmel, Imperialism and Social Reform (London, 1960).
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
- J. L. and Barbara Hammond, Lord Shaftesbury (London, 1923).
Richard Shannon, The Crisis of Imperialism, 1865-1914 (Granada, London, 1974).
John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer
- Peter Gordon, The Red Earl: The Papers of the Fifth Earl Spencer, 1835, 1910, Volume I: 1835-1885 (Northants Record Society, Northampton, 1981).
- ___________, The Red Earl: The Papers of the Fifth Earl Spencer, 1835, 1910, Volume II: 1885-1910 (Northants Record Society, Northampton, 1986).
Jane Stanmore, Moriarty Unmasked: Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Irish Quarrel (Carrowmore , Dublin, 2017).
Peter Stansky, Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1964).
Marvin Swartz, The Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Era of Disraeli and Gladstone (London, 1985).
Sir John Trelawny
- T. A. Jenkins (ed.) The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858-1865 (Royal Historical Society, Camden Fourth Series, 1990).
- ______________, The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1868-73 (Royal Historical Society, Camden Fifth Series, 3, London, 1994).
G. M. Trevelyan, Sir George Otto Trevelyan: A Memoir (Longmans, London, 1932).
Charles Pelham Villiers
- Roger Swift, Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical (Routledge, London, 2017).
R. Spence Watson, The National Liberal Federation (London, 1907).
Lucien Wolf, Life of the First Marquess of Ripon, 2 vols. (John Murray, London, 1921).

Gladstone

B.H. Abbott, Gladstone and Disraeli (Collins, London, 1972).
Paul Adelman, Gladstone, Disraeli and Later Victorian Politics (Longmans, London, 1997 [rev. 3rd ed.]).
Richard Aldous, The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli (Hutchinson, London, 2006).
Lewis Apjohn, Life of Gladstone (Walter Scott, London, 1890).
____________, Life of W. E. Gladstone (Walter Scott, London, 1898).
Thomas Archer, Gladstone and His Contemporaries, 4 vols. (London, 1890).
Michael Barker, Gladstone and Radicalism: The Reconstruction of Liberal Policy in Britain, 1885-1894 (Harvester, Sussex, 1974).
A. Tilney Basset (ed.), Gladstone’s Speeches: Descriptive Index & Bibliography (Methuen, London, 1916).
Georgina Battiscombe, Mrs Gladstone: The Portrait of a Marriage (Constable, London, 1956).
David W. Bebbington, William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain (Eerdmans, Edinburgh, 1993).
__________________, The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).
David Bebbington and Roger Swift (eds), Gladstone Centenary Essays (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2000).
Samuel Bennett, Wm Ewart Gladstone And What He Has Done (W. Stewart, London, 1880).
Eugenio F. Biagini, Gladstone (Macmillan, London, 2000).
Asa Briggs (ed.), Gladstone’s Boswell (Harvester Press, Sussex, 1984).
John Brooke and M. Sorenson (eds), W.E. Gladstone: The Prime Minister’s Papers series, 4 vols. (HMSO, London, 1971-81).
____________________________, W.E. Gladstone: The Prime Minister’s Papers series, Volume I: Autobiographica (HMSO, London, 1971).
____________________________, W.E. Gladstone: The Prime Minister’s Papers series, Volume II: Autobiographical Memoranda, 1832-1845 (HMSO, London, 1972).
____________________________, W.E. Gladstone: The Prime Minister’s Papers series, Volume III: Autobiographical Memoranda, 1845-1868 (HMSO, London, 1978).
____________________________, W.E. Gladstone: The Prime Minister’s Papers series, Volume IV: Autobiographical Memoranda, 1868-1894 (HMSO, London, 1981).
Owen Chadwick, Acton and Gladstone (London, 1976).
Travis L. Crosby, The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997).
J. Doman, Gladstone Examined by a Confessed Radical (Thornduck, Norwich, 1871).
Peter C. Erb (ed.), The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone, Volume I — 1833-1844 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
_______________, The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone, Volume II — 1844-1853 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
_______________, The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone, Volume III — 1861-1875 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
_______________, The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone, Volume IV — 1882-1891 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
E. J. Feuchtwanger, Gladstone (Allen Lane, London, 1975).
M. R. D. Foot and H. C. G. Matthew (eds), The Gladstone Diaries, 14 vols. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1968-94).
M. R. D. Foot (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries, Volume I: 1825-1832 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1968).
_______________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume II: 1833-1839 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1968).
M. R. D. Foot and H. C. G. Matthew (eds), The Gladstone Diaries, Volume III: 1840-1847 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1974).
_________________________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume IV: 1848-1854 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1974).
H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries, Volume V: 1855-1860 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume VI: 1861-1868 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume VII: 1869-1871 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume VIII: 1871-1874 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume IX: 1875-1880 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume X: 1881-1883 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume XI: 1883-1886 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume XII: 1887-1891 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume XIII: 1892-1896 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994).
___________________, The Gladstone Diaries, Volume XIV: Index (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994).
Peter Francis (ed.), The Grand Old Man: Sermons & Speeches in Honour of W.E. Gladstone (1809-1898) (Monad Press, Hawarden, 2000).
_______________, The Gladstone Umbrella (Monad Press, Hawarden, 2001).
W. E. Gladstone, Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East (John Murray, London, 1876).
_____________, Gleanings of Past Years, 1843-79, 7 vols. (John Murray, London, 1879).
_____________, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1971).
Philip Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr. Gladstone, 1845-1879 (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1933).
_________________, The Queen and Mr. Gladstone, 1880-1898 (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1933).
Sir Edward W. Hamilton, Mrs. Gladstone: A Monograph (John Murray, London, 1898).
J. L. Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation (Longmans, London, 1938).
J. L. Hammond and M. R. D. Foot, Gladstone and Liberalism (English Universities Press, London, 1952).
___________________________, Gladstone and Liberalism (English Universities Press, London, rev. 1967 ed.).
Anne Isba, Gladstone and Dante: Victorian Statesman, Medieval Poet (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2006).
________, Gladstone and Women (Continuum, London, 2007).
Peter Jagger, Gladstone, Politics and Religion (London, 1985).
___________, Gladstone: The Making of a Christian Politician – The Personal Religious Life and Development of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1832 (Pickwick Publications, Allison Park, Pennsylvania, 1991).
Peter Jagger (ed.), Gladstone (Hambledon Press, London, 1998).
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone (Macmillan, London, 1995).
Bruce Kinzer, The Gladstonian Turn of Mind (Toronto University Press, Toronto, 1985).
Stephen J. Lee, Gladstone and Disraeli (Routledge, London, 2005).
James Loughlin, Gladstone, Home Rule and the Ulster Question, 1882-1893 (Dublin, 1986).
Henry W. Lucy, The Right Honourable W.E. Gladstone: A Study From Life (W.H. Allen, London, 1898).
Justin McCarthy, The Story of Gladstone’s Life (Adam & Charles Black, London, 1910).
Philip Magnus, Gladstone (John Murray, London, 1954).
H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone, 1809-1874 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988).
_____________, Gladstone, 1875-1898 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997).
John Morley, Gladstone, 3 vols. (London, 1903).
Herbert W. Paul, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Thomas Nelson, London, 1899).
T. W. Pritchard, A History of St Deiniol’s Library (Monad Press, Hawarden, 1999).
Agatha Ramm, William Ewart Gladstone: Political Portraits (GPC Books, Cardiff, 1989).
Agatha Ramm (ed.), The Political Correspondence of Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville, 1868-1876, 2 vols. (Royal Historical Society, Camden Third Series, 81-2, London, 1952).
T. Wemyss Reid, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, 2 vols. (London, 1899).
George W. E. Russell, The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone (Nonsuch, London, 2007 [first pub. 1891]).
Ann P. Saab, Reluctant Icon: Gladstone, Bulgaria and the Working Classes 1856-1878 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991).
J. Ewing Ritchie, The Life and Times of the Right Honble William Ewart Gladstone MP DCL: Historical – Political – Biographical, 6 vols. (London Printing and Publishing, London, 1898).
Ian St. John, Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics (Anthem Press, London, 2010).
D. M. Schreuder, Gladstone and Kruger, Liberal Government and Colonial ‘Home Rule’ ,1880-1885 (London, 1969).
Richard Salter, Peel, Gladstone and Disraeli: Documents and Debates (Macmillan, London, 1991).
Richard Shannon, Gladstone and the Bulgarian Agitation (Harvester Press, Sussex, 1975).
______________, Gladstone, 1809-1865: Peel’s Inheritor (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983).
______________, Gladstone, 1865-1898: Heroic Minister (Penguin, London, 1998).
______________, Gladstone: God and Politics (Hambledon Continuum, London, 2008).
George Barnett Smith, The Life of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, 5 vols. (Cassell, London, 1898).
D. C. Somervell, Disraeli & Gladstone: A Duo-Biographical Sketch (Jarrolds, London, 1925).
Lionel A. Tollemache, Talks With Mr. Gladstone (Edward Arnold, London, 1903).
David Williamson (ed.), William Ewart Gladstone: Statesman and Scholar (Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1898).
Michael Winstanley, Gladstone and the Liberal Party (Routledge, London,1990).

Edwardian and WWI Liberal history

The Land: The Report of the Land Enquiry Committee, 2 vols. (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913).
Ten Years of Tory Government, 1895-1905: Home Affairs – A Handbook for the Use of Liberals (Liberal Publications Department, London, 1905).
The Government’s Record, 1906-13: Seven Years of Liberal Legislation and Administration (Metchim & Son, London, 1913).
Christopher Addison, Politics From Within, 1911-1918, 2 vols. (Herbert Jenkins, London, 1919-24).
K. W. W. Aikin, The Last Years of Liberal England, 1900-1914 (Collins, London, 1972).
John Allett, New Liberalism: The Political Economy of J.A. Hobson (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1981).
Hilaire Belloc
- Joseph Pearce, Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc (HarperCollins, New York, 2002).
- Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (Hollis & Carter, London, 1957).
- A. N. Wilson, Hilare Belloc (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1984).
George Bernstein, Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England (London, 1986).
Luke Blaxill, The War of Words: the Language of British Elections, 1880 – 1922 (Royal Historical Society/Boydell and Brewer, Suffolk, forthcoming, 2019).
Neal Blewett, The Peers, The Parties and the People: the General Elections of 1910 (London, 1972).
Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London, 17 vols. (London, 1902-3).
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, My Diaries, 1888-1914: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 2 vols. (London, 1919-20).
Horatio Bottomley
- Alan Hyman, The Rise and Fall of Horatio Bottomley: The Biography of a Swindler (Cassell, London, 1972).
- Julian Symons, Horatio Bottomley: A Biography (Cresset Press, London, 1955).
Thomas Allnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey
- Frank Partridge, T. A. B.: Memoir of Thomas Allnutt, 2nd Earl Brassey (John Murray, London, 1921).
John Brunner
- Stephen Koss, Sir John Brunner: Radical Plutocrat, 1842-1919 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970).
Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
- James Johnston (ed.), An Orator of Justice: A Speech Biography of Viscount Buckmaster (Nicholson & Watson, London, 1932).
John Burns
- Kenneth D. Brown, John Burns (Royal Historical Society, London, 1977).
- J. Burgess, John Burns: The Rise and Progress of a Right Honourable (London, 1911).
- G. D. H. Cole, John Burns (London, 1943).
- P. Grubb, From Candle Factory to British Cabinet: The Life Story of the Rt Hon John Burns (London, 1908).
- William Kent, John Burns: Labour’s Lost Leader (Williams & Norgate, Ditchling, 1950).
Charles Roden Buxton
- Victoria A. B. De Bunsen, Charles Roden Buxton: A Memoir (London, 1948).
Noel Buxton
- Mosa Anderson, Noel Buxton (Allen & Unwin, London, 1952).
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
- Daniel Waley, A Liberal Life: Sydney, Earl Buxton, 1853-1934 (Newtimber, 1999).
Peter Cain, Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism and Finance, 1887-1938 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002).
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Speeches by the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman; From his Election as Leader of the Liberal Party to his Resignation of Office as Prime Minister, 1899-1908 (The Times, London, 1908).
- Roy Hattersley, Campbell-Bannerman (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
- Lord Pentland (ed.), Early Letters of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to His Sister Louisa, 1850-51 (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1925).
- J.A. Spender, Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 2 vols. (London, 1923).
- Alexander Waugh, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman: A Scottish Life and UK Politics 1836-1908 (London: Austin Macaulay, 2019).
- John Wilson, C.B. – A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Constable, London, 1973).
Francis Allston Channing, Memoirs of Midland Politics, 1885-1910 (Constable, London, 1918).
G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography (Hutchinson, London, 1936).
Peter Clark, Lancashire and the New Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970).
Michael Craton and H. W. McCready, The Great Liberal Revival 1903-6 (Hansard Society, London, 1966).
Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Simple Story: An Accidental Autobiography (London, 1935).
Don Cregier, Chiefs Without Indians: Asquith, Lloyd George and the Liberal Remnant (University Press of America, Washington, D.C., 1982).
Randal Cremer
- Howard Evans, Sir Randal Cremer: His Life and Work (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1909).
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
- James Pope-Hennessy, Lord Crewe, 1858-1943, The Likeness of a Liberal (London, 1955).
Colin Cross, The Liberals in Power 1905-1914 (Barrie & Rockliffe/Pall Mall Press, London, 1963).
Frances Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal (Quality Book Club, London, 1962).
Alexander Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank
- A. C. Murray, Master and Brother: Master of Elibank (London, 1945).
H. V. Emy, Liberals, Radicals and Social Politics, 1892-1914 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973).
Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher
- James Lees-Milne, The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald, 2nd Viscount Esher (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1986).
- Peter Fraser, Lord Esher: A Political Biography (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1973).
John Fisher, Admiral Lord Fisher
- Lord Fisher, Memories (Hodder &Stoughton, London, 1919).
- _________, Records (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1929).
M. R. D. Foot, British Foreign Policy Since 1898 (Hutchinson’s University Library, London, 1956).
Michael Freeden, The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978).
Roger Fulford, Votes for Women: The Story of a Struggle (Faber and Faber, London, 1958).
A. G. Gardiner
- Stephen Koss, Fleet Street Radical: A. G. Gardiner and the ‘Daily News’ (Archon, New York, 1973).
B. Gilbert, The Evolution of National Insurance in Great Britain: The Origins of the Welfare State (London, 1966).
Herbert Gladstone, The Liberal Party and the Labour Question (National Press Agency, London, 1892).
_______________, After Thirty Years (London, 1928).
- Sir Charles Mallett, Herbert Gladstone: A Memoir (London, 1932).
- Kenneth D. Brown, The Unknown Gladstone: The Life of Herbert Gladstone, 1854-1930 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2017).
G. P. Gooch
- Frank Eyck, G. P. Gooch: A Study in History and Politics (London, 1982).
E. H. Green and D. M. Tanner (eds), The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007).
Hamar Greenwood, Canada as an Imperial Factor (Collins, London, 1913).
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Fly Fishing (London, 1899).
_____________________, The League of Nations (London, 1918).
_____________________, Twenty Five Years,1892-1916, 2 vols (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925).
_____________________, Fallodon Papers (Constable, London, 1926).
_____________________, The Charm of Birds (London, 1927).
- Gilbert Murray, The Foreign Policy of Sir Edward Grey (London, 1915).
- Keith Robbins, Sir Edward Grey: A Biography of Lord Grey of Fallodon (Cassel, London, 1971).
- G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon, Being the Life of Sir Edward Grey Afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Longmans, London, 1937).
- Michael Waterhouse, Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (Biteback, London, 2013).
Viscount Haldane, The Pathway to Reality (London, 1903).
______________, Before the War (Cassel, London, 1920).
______________, The Reign of Relativity (London, 1921).
______________, The Philosophy of Humanism (London, 1922).
______________, Human Experience (London, 1926).
______________, An Autobiography (London, 1929).
- Ronald W. Clark, J. B. S.: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane (London, 1969).
- Stephen Koss, Lord Haldane: Scapegoat for Liberalism (Columbia University Press, New York, 1969).
- Sir F. Maurice, Life of Viscount Haldane of Cloan, 2 vols. (London, 1937-9).
- Dudley Sommer, Haldane of Cloan: His Life and Times, 1856-1928 (London, 1960).
- Frederick Vaughan, Viscount Haldane: ‘The Wicked Stepfather of the Canadian Constitution’ (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2010).
Lord Hankey, The Supreme Command,1914-1918, 2 vols. (Allen & Unwin, London, 1961). VOL. 2 ONLY
- Stephen Roskill, Hankey: Man of Secrets – Volume I, 1877-1918 (Collins, London, 1970).
- _____________, Hankey: Man of Secrets – Volume II, 1919-1931 (Collins, London, 1972).
- _____________, Hankey: Man of Secrets – Volume III, 1931-1963 (Collins, London, 1974).
J. R. Hay, The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms, 1906-1914 (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 1975).
Cameron Hazlehurst, Politicians at War, July 1914 to May 1915: Prologue to the Triumph of Lloyd George (Jonathan Cape, London, 1971).
F. H. Hinsley (ed.), British Foreign Policy under Sir Edward Grey (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977).
Charles Hobhouse
- Edward David (ed.), Inside Asquith’s Cabinet: From the Diaries of Charles Hobhouse (John Murray, London, 1977).
J. A. Hobson
- John C. Wood and Robert D. Wood, John A. Hobson (Routledge, London, 2003).
- Jules Townshend, J. A. Hobson: Lives of the Left series (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990).
Francis W. Hirst, Gilbert Murray and J.L. Hammond, Liberalism and the Empire (Brimley Johnson, London, 1900).
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
- Stanley Jackson, Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading (Cassel, London, 1936).
- Denis Judd, Lord Reading: Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading, Lord Chief Justice & Viceroy of India, 1860-1935 (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1982).
- H. Montgomery Hyde, Lord Reading: The Life of Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading (Heinemann, London, 1968).
- 2nd Marquess of Reading, Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading, 1860-1914 (Hutchinson, London, 1943).
Roy Jenkins, Mr. Balfour’s Poodle (Collins, London, 1954).
Stephen Koss, Nonconformity in Modern British Politics (London, 1975).
___________, The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain, Volume One: The Nineteenth Century (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1981).
___________, The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain, Volume Two: The Twentieth Century (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983).
G. I. T. Machin, The Liberal Governments of 1905–15 (Headstart History Papers, 1991).
Edward Marjoribanks
- Ishbel Gordon Aberdeen (ed.), Edward Marjoribanks, Lord Tweedmouth, 1849-1909: Notes and Recollections (London, 1909).
George Croydon Marks, 1st Baron Marks
- Michael R. Lane, Baron Marks of Woolwich: International Entrepreneur, Engineer, Patent Agent and Politician (Quiller, London, 1986).
David Marshall Mason, Macedonia and Great Britain’s Responsibility (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1903).
___________________, Six Years of Politics, 1910-1916 (J.M. Murray, London, 1917).
The Viscount Massereene and Ferrard, The Lords (Leslie Frewin, London, 1973).
H. W. Massingham
- Alfred F. Havighurst, Radical Journalist: H.W. Massingham, 1860-1924 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974).
C. F. G. Masterman
- E. Hopkins, Charles Masterman (1873-1927), Politician and Journalist, the Splendid Failure (Edwin Mellen Press, London, 1999).
- Lucy Masterman, C.F.G. Masterman: A Biography (London, 1929).
H. C. G. Matthew, The Liberal Imperialists: The Ideas and Politics of a Post-Gladstonian Elite (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1973).
Ian McDonald, Politics in Britain, 1898-1914: Lords, Ladies, Libs, Free Trade and Ireland (Keyworth, Nottingham, 1998).
Reginald McKenna
- Stephen McKenna, Reginald McKenna, 1863-1943: A Memoir (London, 1948).
Alfred Mond, 1st Lord Melchett
- Hector Bolitho, Alfred Mond, First Lord Melchett (Martin Secker, London, 1933).
Edwin Montagu
- Sir David Waley, Edwin Montagu: A Memoir, and an Account of his Visits to India (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1964).
D. Morgan, Suffragists and Liberals: The Politics of Women’s Suffrage in Britain (Blackwell, Oxford, 1975).
Viscount Morley, Recollections, 2 vols (Macmillan, London,1921).
- D.A. Hamer, John Morley: Liberal Intellectual in Politics (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968).
- Syed Sirdar Ali Khan, The Life of Lord Morley (Pitman, London, 1923).
- Stephen Koss, John Morley at the India Office, 1905-1910 (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1969).
- J.H. Morgan, John, Viscount Morley: An Appreciation and Some Reminiscences (John Murray, London, 1925).
- Viscount Morley, Memorandum on Resignation, August 1914 (Macmillan, London, 1928).
- Peter Stansky (ed.), John Morley: Nineteenth Century Essays (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970).
A. J. A. Morris, Radicalism Against War, 1906-1914 (London, 1972).
A. J. A. Morris (ed.), Edwardian Radicalism: Some Aspects of British Radicalism (Routledge & Keegan Paul, London, 1974).
Eunan O’Halpin, The Decline of the Union: British Government in Ireland, 1892-1920 (London, 1987).
Cornelius O’Leary, The Elimination of Corrupt Practices in British Elections, 1868-1911 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1962).
Ian Packer, Liberal Government and Politics 1905-15 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007).
Weetman Pearson [1st Viscount Cowdray]
- J. A. Spender, Viscount Cowdray (London, 1930).
Edward Pearce, Lines of Most Resistance: The Lords, the Tories and Ireland, 1886-1914 (Little, Brown, London, 1999).
J.A. Pease
- Cameron Hazlehurst and C. Woodland (eds), A Liberal Chronicle: Journals and Papers of J.A. Pease, 1908 to 1910 (The Historians’ Press, London, 1994).
B. Porter, Critics of Empire: British Radical Attitudes to Colonialism in Africa, 1895-1914 (London, 1968).
Martin Pugh, Electoral Reform in Peace and War, 1906-18 (Rutledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978).
Russell Rea, Free Trade in Being (Macmillan, London, 1908).
Paul Readman, Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2008).
Keith Robbins, Politicians, Diplomacy and War in Modern British History (Hambledon Press, London, 1994).
William Robson
- George W. Keeton, A Liberal Attorney-General: Being the Life of Lord Robson of Jesmond (1852-1918) with an account of the Office of Attorney-General (James Nisbet, London, 1949).
C. Rover, Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914 (London, 1967).
Peter Rowland, The Last Liberal Governments, Volume I: The Promised Land, 1905-1910 (Barrie & Jenkin, London, 1968).
____________, The Last Liberal Governments, Volume II: Unfinished Business, 1910-1914 (Barrie & Jenkin, London, 1970).
A. K. Russell, Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906 (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973).
C. P. Scott
- J. L. Hammond, C. P. Scott of the Manchester Guardian (Bell, London, 1934).
- H. D. Nichols and J. L. Hammond, C.P. Scott, 1846-1932: The Making of the Manchester Guardian (Frederick Muller, London, 1946).
- Trevor Wilson (ed.), The Political Diaries of C.P. Scott, 1911-1928 (Collins, London, 1970).
R. D. H. Seaman, Liberals and the Welfare State (Edward Arnold, London, 1968).
G. R. Searle, The Quest For National Efficiency: A Study in British Politics and Political Thought (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1973).
__________, Country Before Party: Coalition and the Idea of National Government in Modern Britain, 1885-1987 (Longman, London, 1995).
Bernard Semmel, Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest, and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica (Allen & Unwin, Boston, 1986).
_____________, The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993).
W. T. Stead, Peers or People? The House of Lords Weighed in the Balances and Found Wanting. An Appeal to History (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1907).
A. T. Q. Stewart, The Ulster Crisis (London, 1967).
John Turner, British Politics and the Great War (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1992).
Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship (London, 1926).
____________, Our Partnership (Longmans, London, 1948).
- Norman and Jeanne McKenzie (eds), The Diary of Beatrice Webb, Volume One, 1873-1892: Glitter Around and Darkness Within (Belknap Press, London, 1982).
- ______________________________, The Diary of Beatrice Webb, Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life (Belknap Press, London, 1983).
- ______________________________, The Diary of Beatrice Webb, Volume Three, 1905-1924: The Power to Alter Things (Belknap Press, London, 1984).
- ______________________________, The Diary of Beatrice Webb, Volume Four, 1924-1943: The Wheel of Life (Belknap Press, London, 1985).
Josiah C. Wedgwood
- Gabriella Auspitz Labson, My Righteous Gentile: Lord Wedgwood and Other Memories (KTAV, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2004).
- Paul Mulvey, The Political Life of Josiah C. Wedgwood: Land, Liberty and Empire, 1872-1943 (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2010).
- Joshua B. Stein, Our Great Solicitor: Josiah C. Wedgwood and the Jews (Susquehanna University Press, Selinsgrove, 1992).
- C. V. Wedgwood, Last of the Radicals: Josiah Clement Wedgwood M.P. (Jonathan Cape, London, 1951).
- J. C. Wedgwood (1940) Memoirs of a Fighting Life (Hutchinson, London, 1940).

Trevor Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War (Polity Press, Oxford, 1986).

S. A. van Wingerden, Women’s Suffrage in Britain 1866–1928 (London, 1999) .

Asquith

Lady Cynthia Asquith, Diaries 1915-18 (Hutchinson, London, 1968).
H. H. Asquith, The Paisley Policy (Cassel, London, 1920).
___________, The Genesis of the War (Cassel, London, 1923).
___________, Studies and Sketches (Hutchinson, London, 1924).
___________ [as the Earl of Oxford and Asquith], Fifty Years of Parliament, 2 vols. (Cassel, London, 1926).
________________________________________, Speeches (Hutchinson, London, 1927).
________________________________________, Memories and Reflections, 2 vols. (Cassel, London, 1928).
Herbert Asquith, Moments of Memory: Recollections & Impressions (Hutchinson, London, 1937).
Margot Asquith, The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, 2 vols. (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1920-2).
_____________, Places and Persons (London, 1925).
_____________ [as the Countess of Oxford and Asquith], Lay Sermons (London, 1925).
______________________________________________, More Memories (London, 1933).
______________________________________________, Myself When Young (London, 1938).
______________________________________________, Off the Record (Frederick Muller, London, 1943).
Stephen Bates, Asquith (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
Daphne Bennett, Margot: A Life of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith (Victor Gollancz, London, 1984).
Michael and Eleanor Brock (eds), H.H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982).
___________________________, Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary, 1914-1916: The View From Downing Street (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014).
Stefan Buczacki, My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley (Cato and Clarke, London, 2016).
Michael Byrne, The End of Asquith: The Downing Street Coup – December 2016 (Clink Street, London, 2016).
George Cassar, Asquith as War Leader (Hambledon Press, London, 1994).
Colin Clifford, The Asquiths (John Murray, London, 2002).
Anne de Courcy, Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2014).
Roy Jenkins, Asquith (Collins, London, 1964 [rev. ed. 1978]).
John Jolliffe, Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters (Collins, London, 1980).
Stephen Koss, Asquith (Allen Lane, London, 1976).
R. B. McCallum, Asquith (Duckworth, London, 1926).
Desmond McCarthy (ed.), H. H. A. – Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend: First Series, 1915-1922 (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1933).
_____________________, H. H. A. – Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend: Second Series, 1922-1927 (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1934).
J. A. Spender and Cyril Asquith, Life of Henry Herbert, Lord Oxford and Asquith, 2 vols. (Hutchinson, London, 1932).
Mary Tester, The Wit of the Asquiths (Leslie Frewin, London, 1974).

Lloyd George

The Life of David Lloyd George: The Man, the Statesman, the Orator (Daily News and Leader, London, 1912).
R. J. Q. Adams, Arms and the Wizard: Lloyd George and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1916 (Littlehampton, London, 1978).
Lord Beaverbrook, Politicians and the War, 1914-1916 (Oldbourne, London,1960).
_______________, Men and Power,1917-1918 (Hutchinson, London, 1956).
_______________, The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George: And Great Was the Fall Thereof (Collins, London,1963).
David Benedictus, Lloyd George: A Novel (Sphere, London, 1981).
David Berry and Simon Horrock (eds), David Lloyd George: The Movie Mystery (University of Wales Press, Aberystwyth, 1998).
Clawr Blaen, Amgueddfa David Lloyd George Museum (Lloyd George Museum, Llanystumdwy, 1995).
W. F. Burbridge, The Wizard of Wales (Crowther, London, 1943).
John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922-1931 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1977).
____________, If Love Were All: The Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George (London, 2006).
Olwen Carey Evans, Lloyd George Was My Father (Gomer Press, Llandysul, 1985).
George H. Cassar, Lloyd George at War (Anthem Press, London, 2011).
“Centurion”, The Man Who Didn’t Win the War (Henry E. Walter, London, 1948).
Tom Clarke, My Lloyd George Diary (Methuen, London, 1939).
Stephen Constantine, Lloyd George (Taylor & Francis, London, 1991).
Don M. Cregier, Bounder from Wales: Lloyd George’s Career Before the First World War (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 1976).
Travis L. Crosby, The Unknown Lloyd George: A Statesman in Conflict (I.B. Tauris, Edinburgh, 2013).
Colin Cross (ed.), Life With Lloyd George: The Diaries of A.J. Sylvester, 1931-45 (Macmillan, London, 1975).
Sir Alfred T. Davies, The Lloyd George I Knew (George Newnes, London, 1948).
Joseph Davies, The Prime Minister’s Secretariat, 1916-20 (R.H. Johns, London, 1951).
W. Watkin Davies, Lloyd George, 1863-1914 (Constable, London, 1939).
Rev. J. Tafionyyd Davies, David Lloyd George: The Story of His Life (W.M. Evans, Carmarthen, 1910).
Frank Dilnot, Lloyd George: The Man and His Story (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1917).
Herbert Du Parcq, Life of David Lloyd George, 4 vols. (Caxton, London, 1912).
J. Hugh Edwards, From Village Green to Downing Street (George Newnes, London, 1916).
_____________, David Lloyd George: The Man and the Statesman, 2 vols. (Waverley, London, 1929).
Beriah Gwynfe Evans, The Life Romance of Lloyd George, with an Introduction by Charles Sarolea (Everyman, London, 1915).
Lady Olwyn Carey Evans [as told to Mary Garner], Lloyd George Was My Father (Gomer Press, Dufed, 1985).
Mrs. Bobby Freeman, Lloyd George’s Favourite Dishes (Criccieth Women’s Institute, Criccieth, 1974).
David French, The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916-1918 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995).
Michael G. Fry, Lloyd George and Foreign Policy: The Education of a Statesman, 1890-1916 (McGill University Press, Montreal, 1977).
____________, And Fortune Fled: David Lloyd George, the First Democratic Statesman, 1916-1922 (Peter Lang, London, 2010).
David Lloyd George, The People’s Budget (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909).
________________, The Lords, the Land and the People (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909).
________________, Dylanwad Anghydffurfiaeth ar Gymru (W.M. Evans a’i fab, Caerfyrddin, 1909).
________________, Better Times: The Speeches of David Lloyd George (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910).
________________, Through Terror to Triumph (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1915).
________________, Yr Eglwysi a’r Rhyfel (Caerdydd, 1918).
________________, Is It Peace? (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1923).
________________, Where Are We Going? (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1923).
________________, Coal and Power (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1924).
________________, We Can Conquer Unemployment (Cassell, London, 1929).
________________, Gallwn Goncro Diffyg Gwaith (Cambrian Press, Aberystwyth, 1929).
________________, Slings and Arrows: Sayings from the Speeches of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George (Cassel, London, 1929).
________________, The Truth About Reparations and War Debts (Heinemann, London, 1932).
________________, War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, 6 vols. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1933-6).
________________, What’s Wrong with South Wales? (New Statesman and Nation, London, 1935)
________________, The Truth About the Peace Treaties, 2 vols. (Victor Gollancz, London, 1938).
Frances Lloyd George, The Years That Are Past: The Autobiography of Frances Lloyd George (Hutchinson, London, 1967).
Richard Lloyd George, Dame Margaret: The Life Story of His Mother by Viscount Gwynedd, Now Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (Allen & Unwin, London, 1948).
__________________, Lloyd George (Frederick Muller, London, 1962).
Robert Lloyd George, David & Winston: How the Friendship Between Churchill and Lloyd George Changed the Course of History (Overlook, New York, 2005).
William George, My Brother and I (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1958).
W.R.P. George, The Making of Lloyd George (Faber and Faber, London, 1976).
____________, Lloyd George: Backbencher (Gomer Press, Dyfed, 1983).
Megan Lloyd George
- Mervyn Jones, A Radical Life: Megan Lloyd George (Hutchinson, London, 1991).
- Emyr Price, Megan Lloyd George (Gwynedd Archives Service, Gwynedd, 1983).
Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert, David Lloyd George, A Political Life: The Architect of Change, 1863-1912 (B.T. Batsford, London, 1987).
______________________, David Lloyd George, A Political Life: Organizer of Victory, 1912-16 (B.T. Batsford, London, 1992).
Martin Gilbert (ed.), Lloyd George (Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1968).
W. E. Graham, A Welsh Hero: The Career of the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Salisbury, 1915).
John Grigg, Lloyd George, Volume I: The Young Lloyd George (Methuen, London, 1973).
__________, Lloyd George, Volume II: The People’s Champion, 1902-1911 (Methuen, London, 1978).
__________, Lloyd George, Volume III: From Peace to War, 1912-1916 (Methuen, London, 1985).
__________, Lloyd George, Volume IV: War Leader, 1916-1918 (Allen Lane, London, 2002).
Philip Guedalla (ed.), Slings and Arrows: Sayings Chosen from the Speeches of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George (Cassell, London, 1929).
Ffion Hague, The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life (Harper Press, London, 2008).
Roy Hattersley, Lloyd George: The Great Outsider (Little, Brown and Company, London, 2010).
A. H. Henderson-Livesey, David Lloyd George: The Liberal Leader (Social Services Ltd, London, 1929).
E. Morgan Humphreys, David Lloyd George (Llyfrau’r Dryw, Landybie, 1943).
Ian Hunter, Collected Correspondence of Winston S. Churchill and David Lloyd George, 1904-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014).
“An Independent Liberal”, Lloyd George and the War: A Personal History of his Part in Armageddon (Hutchinson, London, 1918).
J. Graham Jones, Lloyd George Papers at the National Library of Wales, and at Other Repositories (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2001).
_____________, Lloyd George and Welsh Liberalism (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2010).
Jack Jones, The Man David (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1944).
Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (Oxford University Press, London, 1951).
- Keith Middlemass (ed.), Thomas Jones – Whitehall Diary, Volume 1: 1916-1925 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1969).
- ___________________, Thomas Jones – Whitehall Diary, Volume 2: 1926-1930 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1969).
R. H. Kiernan, Lloyd George (George G. Harrap, London, 1940).
Michael Kinnear, The Fall of Lloyd George: The Political Crisis of 1922 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1973).
Geoffrey Lee, The People’s Budget: An Edwardian Tragedy (Henry George Foundation, London, 1996).
Antony Lentin, Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: From Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2001). Previously published under the title, ‘Guilt at Versailles’, 1985.
Judith Loades (ed.), The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (Headstart History, Bangor, 1991).
Ruth Longford, Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More Than a Mistress (Greenwing, Leominster, 1996).
Michael Lynch, Lloyd George and the Liberal Dilemma (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993).
Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and its Attempt to End War (John Murray, London, 2001).
Sir Charles Mallet, Mr. Lloyd George: A Study (Ernest Benn, London, 1930).
Donald McCormick, The Mask of Merlin: A Critical Biography of Lloyd George (London, 1964).
J. Saxon Mills, Lloyd George: War Minister (Cassell, London, 1924).
Kenneth O. Morgan, David Lloyd George: Welsh Radical as World Statesman (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1963).
_________________, The Age of Lloyd George: The Liberal Party and British Politics, 1890-1929 (HarperCollins, New York, 1971).
_________________, Lloyd George Family Letters, 1885-1936 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1973).
_________________, Lloyd George (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1976).
_________________, Consensus and Disunity: Lloyd George’s Coalition Government, 1918-22 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980).
_________________, David Lloyd George, 1863-1945 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1981).
_________________, David Lloyd George, 1863-2013 (Cardiff University Press, Cardiff, 2013).
Thomas Morgan and “Skewen”, Y Gwir Anrhydeddus D. Lloyd George, A. S. (Hughes a’i Fab, Gwrecsam, 1908).
_________________________, Y Gwir Anrhydeddus D. Lloyd George, A. S., Argraffiad newydd gydag Atiad (Hughes a’i Fab, Gwrecsam, 1910).
Alan Mumford, David Lloyd George: A Biography in Cartoons (Matador, 2014).
Basil Murray, L.G. (Sampson Low, London, 1932)
Bruce K. Murray, The People’s Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980).
Frank Owen, Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times (Hutchinson, London, 1954).
Ian Packer, Lloyd George (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998).
________, Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: The Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1918 (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2001).
Bryn Parry, Emyr Price and Gareth Price, David Lloyd George (Gwynedd Archives Service, Gwynedd, 1981).
Emyr Price, Y Port a Lloyd George, 1878-1890: Prentisiaeth y Dewin (Caernarfon, 1995).
Emyr Price, Lloyd George: Welsh Radicals (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2005).
Emrys Pride, Why Lloyd George Met Hitler (Wales, 1981).
Martin Pugh, Lloyd George (Longmans, London, 1988).
Hugh Purcell, Lloyd George (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
G.E. Raine, The Real Lloyd George (London, 1913).
_________, Lloyd George and the Land: An Exposure and an Appeal (London, 1914).
E. T. Raymond, Mr. Lloyd George (Collins, London, 1922).
Marvin Rintala, Lloyd George and Churchill: How Friendship Changed Politics (Madison Books, Lanham, Maryland, 1995).
J. M. Robertson, Lloyd George and Liberalism (Chapman and Dodd, London, 1923).
Walter Roch, David Lloyd George and the War (Chatto and Windus, London, 1920).
Peter Rowland, Lloyd George (Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1975).
Stella Rudman, Lloyd George and the Appeasement of Germany, 1919-1945 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 2011).
Alan Sharp, David Lloyd George — Great Britain: Makers of the Modern World series (Haus Histories, Haus Publishing, London 2008).
Harold Spender, David Lloyd George: The Prime Minister (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1920).
Christopher Stamm, Lloyd George Zwischen Innen-und Aussenpolitik: Die britische Deutschlandpolitik 1921/2 (Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne, 1977).
Andrew Suttie, Politics and Strategy: Rewriting the First World War, 1914-18 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005).
A. J. Sylvester, The Real Lloyd George (Cassell, London, 1947).
A. J. P. Taylor, Lloyd George: Rise and Fall (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1961).
A.J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1971).
______________, Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson (Hutchinson, London, 1971).
______________, My Darling Pussy: The Letters of David Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson (Hutchinson, London, 1975).
Malcolm Thomson, Lloyd George – The Official Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1948).
John Turner, Lloyd George’s Secretariat (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980).
Emrys Pride Why, Lloyd George Met Hitler (The Starling Press, Newport, Gwent, 1981).
Richard Wilkinson, Lloyd George: A Life in Politics (I.B. Tauris, London, 2014).
Chris Wrigley, Lloyd George (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1992).
____________, David Lloyd George and the British Labour Movement: War and Peace (London, 1976).
____________, Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: Post-War Coalition, 1918-1922 (Prentice-Hall, 1990).
David R. Woodward, Lloyd George and the Generals (University of Delaware Press, Newark, Delaware, 1983).

Churchill – official biography, and books about his ‘Liberal’ phase

Official biography

Randolph S. Churchill, Martin Gilbert and Larry P. Arnn, Winston S. Churchill, 26 vols. (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1966-2013)
- Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Volume I: Youth, 1874-1900 (Heinemann, London, 1966).
- _________________, Winston S. Churchill, Volume II: Young Statesman, 1901-1914 (Heinemann, London, 1968).
- Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Volume III: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1971 [2008 ed.]).
- ____________, Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV: World in Torment, 1916-1922 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1975 [2008 ed.]).
- ____________, Winston S. Churchill, Volume V: Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1979 [2008 ed.]).
- ____________, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VI: Finest Hour, 1939-1941 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1983 [2008 ed.]).
- ____________, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VII: The Road to Victory, 1941-1945 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1986 [2008 ed.]).
- ____________, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VIII: Never Despair, 1945-1965 (Heinemann, London, 1988).
  - Randolph S. Churchill (ed.), The Churchill Documents, Volume I: Youth, 1874-1896 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1967 [2008 ed.]).
  - _____________________, The Churchill Documents, Volume II: Young Soldier, 1896-1901 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1969 [2008 ed.]).
  - _____________________, The Churchill Documents, Volume III: Early Years in Politics, 1901-1907 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1969 [2008 ed.]).
  - _____________________, The Churchill Documents, Volume IV: Minister of the Crown, 1907-1911 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1969 [2008 ed.]).
  - _____________________, The Churchill Documents, Volume V: At the Admiralty, 1911-1914 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1969 [2008 ed.]).
  - Martin Gilbert (ed.), The Churchill Documents, Volume VI: At the Admiralty, July 1914-April 1915 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1972 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume VII: “The Escaped Scapegoat”, May 1915-December 1916 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1972 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume VIII: War And Aftermath, December 1916-June 1919 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1976 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume IX: Disruption and Chaos, July 1919-March 1921 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1976 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume X: Conciliation and Reconciliation, April 1921-November 1922 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1976 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XI: The Exchequer Years, 1922-1929 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1980 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XII: The Wilderness Years, 1929-1935 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1981 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XIII: The Coming of War, 1936-1939 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1982 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XIV: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1994 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XV: Never Surrender, May 1940-December 1940 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 1995 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XVI: The Ever-Widening War, 1941 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 2000 [2008 ed.]).
  - _______________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XVII: Testing Times, 1942 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 2013).
  - Martin Gilbert and Larry P. Arnn (eds), The Churchill Documents, Volume XVIII: Testing One Continent Redeemed, January-August 1943 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 2015).
  - _______________________________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XIX: Fateful Questions, September 1943-April 1944 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 2017).
  - _______________________________, The Churchill Documents, Volume XX: Normandy and Beyond, May-December 1944 (Hillsdale College Michigan Press, Michigan, 2018).

Churchill as a Liberal

Paul Addison, Winston Churchill on the Home Front, 1900-1955 (Pimlico, London, 1993 [rev. 2nd ed.]).
Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (World Books, London, 1965).
Christopher Catherwood, Churchill’s Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq (Basic Books, London, 2005).
Peter de Mendelssohn, Winston Churchill: Heritage and Adventure, 1874-1911 (Thames and Hudson, London, 1962).
Warren Dockter, Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East (I.B. Tauris, London, 2015).
Victor Feske, From Belloc to Churchill: Private Scholars, Public Culture, and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1996).
“Captain X” [Andrew Dewar Gibb], With Winston Churchill at the Front (Cowans and Gray, Glasgow, 1924).
Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s Political Philosophy (British Academy/Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981).
____________, The Will of the People: Winston Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy (Vintage Canada, Toronto, 2006).
Barry Gough, Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty (Seaforth, London, 2017).
Peter Gretton, Former Naval Person: Winston Churchill and the Royal Navy (Cassell, London, 1968).
Malcolm Hill, Churchill: His Radical Decade (Othila Press, London, 1999).
Ronald Hyam, Elgin and Churchill at the Colonial Office 1905-1908 (Macmillan, London, 1968).
Lawrence James, Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2013).
Kevin Jefferys, The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics 1940-1945 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1991).
H. J. Leech, Mr. Winston Churchill (Abel Heywood, Manchester, 1907).
Ted Morgan, Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982).
Tony Paterson, Churchill – A Seat For Life: The Story of Winston S. Churchill When He Was Liberal Member of Parliament for Dundee from 1908 to 1922 (David Winter, Dundee, 1980).
Robin Prior, Churchill’s World Crisis as History (Croom Helm, London, 1983).
Stephen Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals (Collins, London, 1977).
A. McCallum Scott, Winston Spencer Churchill (George Newnes, London, 1905).
_______________, Winston Churchill in Peace and War (George Newnes, London, 1916).
Matthew S. Seligman, Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited: Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018).
Michael Shelden, Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2013).
Richard Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (Macmillan, London, 2007).
___________, Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him, and the World That He Made (Macmillan, London, 2010).
Jeffrey D. Wallin, By Ships Alone: Churchill and the Dardanelles, Politics and Strategy of a Decision (Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1981).

One-volume biographies

Paul Addison, Winston Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).
Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001).
John Charmley, Churchill: The End of Glory (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993).
Clementine Churchill
- Sonia Purnell, First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill (Aurum, London, 2015).
- Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Revised and Updated Biography (Doubleday, New York, 2002).
John Colville, The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955 (W.W. Norton, New York, 1985).
Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: A Life (Pimlico, London, 1991).
Richard Hough, Winston & Clementine (Bantam Books, New York, 1989).
Roy Jenkins, Churchill (Macmillan, London, 2002).
Henry Pelling, Churchill (BAC, London, 1974).
Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (Simon and Schuater, New York, 1994).
Mary Soames (ed.), Speaking For Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill (Doubleday, London, 2000).
Fred Urquhart (ed.), W.S.C. A Cartoon Biography (Cassell, London, 1955).

Writings by Churchill

Winston S. Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (Longmans Green, London, 1898[Last reprint Leo Cooper, London, 1989]).
_________________, The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, 2 vols. (Longmans Green, London, 1899).
_________________, Savrola (Longmans Green, New York, 1899 [Last reprint Leo Cooper, London, 1989]).
_________________, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (Longmans Green, London, 1900 [Last reprint Leo Cooper, London, 1989, in The Boer War omnibus with Ian Hamilton’s March]).
_________________, Ian Hamilton’s March (Longmans Green, London, 1900 [Last reprint Leo Cooper, London, 1989, in The Boer War omnibus with London to Ladysmith via Pretoria]).
_________________, Mr. Broderick’s Army (The Churchilliana Company, Sacramento, California, 1977 [2nd edition]).
_________________, Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 vols. (Macmillan, London, 1906); one-volume reprint (Odham’s, London, 1950).
_________________, For Free Trade (The Churchilliana Company, Sacramento, California, 1977 [2nd edition]).
_________________, The People’s Rights (Jonathan Cape, London, 1909; 1973 reprint).
_________________, Liberalism and the Social Problem (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910).
_________________, My African Journey (Heron Books, London, 1962 [first pub. 1908]).
_________________, The World Crisis, 4 vols. (Odhams, London, 1948 edition [unabridged]; 1st published 1921-6).
_________________, The World Crisis: The Aftermath (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1929)
_________________, The World Crisis: The Eastern Front (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1931)
_________________, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1930])
_________________, Thoughts and Adventures (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1932).
_________________, Marlborough: His Life and Times, 4 vols. (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1933-8).
_________________, Great Contemporaries (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1937).
_________________, The Second World War, 6 vols. (Cassell, London, 1948-53).
Winston S. Churchill; Frederick Woods (ed.), Winston Churchill, War Correspondent (Brassey’s, London, 1992).
Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, 8 vols. (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume I: 1897-1908 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume II: 1908-1913 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume III: 1913-1922 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume IV: 1922-1928 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume V: 1928-1935 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume VI: 1935-1943 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume VII: 1943-1950 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).
_____________________, Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume VIII: 1950-1963 (Chelsea-Bowker, New York, 1974).

Inter-war and WWII Liberal history, 1918-1945

Britain’s Industrial Future: Being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry (Liberal Party, London, 1928). [PB first ed. and HB & PB reprints from 1977.]
The Land and the Nation: Rural Report of the Liberal Land Committee 1923-25 (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925).
Richard Acland, Unser Kampf (Our Struggle) (Penguin, London, 1940).
_____________, The Forward March (Allen & Unwin, London, 1941).
_____________, What Will It Be Like in the New Britain? (Victor Gollancz, London, 1942).
_____________, How Can It Be Done? (MacDonald, London, 1943).
Paul Adelman, The Decline of the Liberal Party, 1910-1931 (Longman, London, 1995).
Christopher Addison, The Betrayal of the Slums (London, 1922).
_________________, Four and a Half Years (London, 1934).
- R. J. Minney, Viscount Addison: Leader of the Lords (Odhams, London, 1958).
- Kenneth and Jane Morgan, Portrait of a Progressive: Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980).
Stuart Ball, The Advent of Democracy: The Impact of the 1918 Reform Act on British Politics (Parliamentary History Yearbook/Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2018).
Michael Bentley, The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977).
Humphry Berkeley, The Myth That Will Not Die: The Formation of the National Government, 1931 (Croom Helm, London, 1978).
Sir Robert Bernays
- Nick Smart (ed.), The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, 1932-1939: An Insider’s Account of the House of Commons (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1996).
Lord Beveridge, Power and Influence (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1953).
- Janet Beveridge, Beveridge and His Plan (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1954).
- Philip Beveridge Mair, Shared Enthusiasm: The Story of Lord and Lady Beveridge (London, 1982).
- José Harris, William Beveridge: A Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977).
- Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State (London, 1995).
Norman Birkett
- John Chandos, Norman Birkett: Uncommon Advocate (Mayflower Publishing, London, 1963).
- H. Montgomery Hyde, Norman Birkett: The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston (London, 1964).
Donald S. Birn, The League of Nations Union (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981).
David Blaazer, The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition: Socialists, Liberals and the Quest for Unity, 1884-1939 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).
Violet Bonham Carter
- Mark Pottle and Mark Bonham Carter (eds), Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1904-1914 (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1996).
- Mark Pottle (ed.), Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1914-1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1998).
- ______________, Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1945-1969 (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2000).
Ivor Brown, Life Within Reason (Liberal Book Club/Nicholson & Watson, London, 1939).
Joyce Cary, Power in Men: On Systems of Government (University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1963) – Reprint of limited first edition from Liberal Book Club/Nicholson & Watson, London, 1939.
Chris Cook, The Age of Alignment: Electoral Politics in Britain, 1922-1929 (Macmillan, London, 1979).
Colin Coote, Editorial: The Memoirs of Colin Coote (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1965).
Arthur Comyns Carr, Escape from the Dole (Faber & Faber, London, 1930).
Lord Crewe, Liberal Plan for Peace (Victor Gollancz, London, 1944).
George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (Heron Books, London, 1935 [1966 ed.]).
Hugh Dalton, Call Back Yesterday: Memoirs, 1887-1931 (Frederick Muller, London, 1953).
__________, The Fateful Years: Memoirs, 1931-1945 (Frederick Muller, London, 1957).
__________, High Tide and After: Memoirs, 1945-1960 (Frederick Muller, London, 1962).
- Ben Pimlott, Hugh Dalton: A Life (Jonathan Cape, London, 1985).
- Ben Pimlott (ed.), The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1940-45 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1986).
- ______________, The Political Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1918-40, 1945-60 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987).
James de Rothschild
- Mrs. James de Rothschild, Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor (Collins, London, 1979).
- Simon Schama, Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel (London, 1978).
Elliott Dodds, Is Liberalism Dead? A Restatement and an Appeal (London, 1919).
___________, Liberalism in Action (London, 1922).
___________, The Social Gospel of Liberalism (London, 1926).
___________, Let’s Try Liberalism (Simpkin, Marshall, London, 1944).
___________, The Defence of Man (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946).
- Desmond Banks and Donald Wade, The Political Insight of Elliott Dodds (London, 1977).
David Dutton, Liberals in Schism: A History of the National Liberal Party (I.B. Tauris, London, 2007).
H. A. L. Fisher, The Medieval Empire (London, 1898).
____________, Napoleonic Statesmanship: Germany (London, 1903).
____________, Political Unions (London, 1911).
____________, Studies in History and Politics (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920).
____________, The Commonweal (London, 1924).
____________, Our New Religion (Ernest Benn, London, 1929).
____________, A History of Europe, 3 vols. (London, 1935).
____________, An Unfinished Autobiography (London, 1941).
- David Ogg, Herbert Fisher: A Short Biography (Arnold, London, 1945).
Dingle Foot, British Political Crises (London, 1976).
Isaac Foot, Oliver Cromwell and Abraham Lincoln: A Comparison (London, 1944).
________, Michael Verran and Thomas Carlyle (London, 1946).
- Michael Foot and Alison Highet (eds), Isaac Foot: A Westcountry Boy – Apostle of England (Politico’s, London, 2006).
- Sarah Foot, My Grandfather, Isaac Foot (Bossiney Books, Bodmin, 1980).
Michael Freeden, Liberalism Divided: A Study in British Political Thought, 1914-1939 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986).
Richard Grayson, Liberals, International Relations and Appeasement: A Study of the Liberal Party, 1919-1939 (Frank Cass, London, 2001). PB.
Edward Grigg, The Greatest Experiment in World History (London, 1924).
____________, Unity (London, 1935).
____________, The Faith of an Englishman (London, 1936).
____________, Britain Looks at Germany (London, 1938).
____________, Kenya’s Opportunity: Memories, Hopes and Ideas (London, 1955).
Tom Horabin, Politics Made Plain: What the Next General Election Will Really Be About (Penguin, London, 1944).
Sir Percy Harris, New Zealand and its Politics (London, 1909).
_____________, London and its Government (London, 1931 [rev. 2nd ed. of 1913 book]).
_____________, Forty Years In and Out of Parliament (Andrew Melrose, London, 1950).
Tom Horabin, Politics Made Plain: What the Next General Election Will Really Be About (Penguin, London, 1944).
Leslie Hore-Belisha
- Ian R. Grimwood, A Little Chit of a Fellow: A Biography of the Right Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha (Book Guild, London, 2006).
- R.J. Minney, The Private Papers of Hore-Belisha (Collins, London, 1960).
Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981).
Elsie Janner, Barnett Janner: A Personal Portrait (London, 1984).
W. Ivor Jennings, Parliamentary Reform (Victor Gollancz, London, 1934).
John Maynard Keynes
- Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman, Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011).
- Vincent Barnett, John Maynard Keynes (Routledge, London, 2012).
- Mark Blaug, John Maynard Keynes: Life, Ideas, Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1990).
- Joseph R. Cammarosano, John Maynard Keynes: Free Trader or Protectionist? (Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2014).
- ____________________, A Wider View of John Maynard Keynes: Beyond the General Theory of Employment (Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2016).
- ____________________, The Contributions of John Maynard Keynes to Foreign Trade Theory and Policy, 1909-1946 (Routledge, London, 2017).
- James Crotty, Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism (Routledge, London, 2019).
- Paul Davidson, John Maynard Keynes (AIAA, London, 2007).
- Robert W. Dimand and Harald Hagemann (eds), The Elgar Companion John Maynard Keynes (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2019).
- Roy Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes (Easton Press, Norwalk Connecticut, 1990).
- Polly Hill and Richard Keynes (eds), Lydia and Maynard: Letters Between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes (André Deutsch, London, 1989).
- Thomas Hoerber, Hayek vs Keynes: A Battle of Ideas (Reaktion Books, London, 2017).
- Milo Keynes (ed.), Essays on John Maynard Keynes (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975).
- Judith Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes (Orion, London, 2008).
- Donald John Markwell, John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
- Hyman P. Minsky, John Maynard Keynes (Columbia University Press, New York, 1975).
- Donald Moggridge (ed.), The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, 30 vols (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXX: Bibliography and Index (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1989).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXIX: The General Theory and After – A Supplement (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1988).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXVIII: Social, Political and Literary Writings (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1982).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXVII: Activities 1940-1946 – Shaping the Post-War World – Employment and Commodities (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXVI: Activities 1941-1946 – Shaping the Post-War World – Bretton Woods and Reparations (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1980).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXV: Activities 1940-1944 – Shaping the Post-War World: The Cleaning Union (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXIV: Activities 1944-1946 – The Transition to Peace (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXIII: Activities 1940-1943 – External War Finance (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXII: Activities 1939-1945 – Internal War Finance (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXI: Activities 1931-1939 – World Crises and Policies in Britain and America (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1982).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XX: Activities 1929-1931 – Rethinking Employment Policies (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1982).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XIX: Activities 1926-1928 – The Return to Gold and Industrial Policy (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1981).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XVIII: Activities 1922-1932 – The End of Reparations (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XVII: Treaty Revision and Reconstruction (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XVI: Activities 1914-1919 – The Treasury and Versailles (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XV: Activities 1906-1914 – India and Cambridge (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XIV: The General Theory and After, Part II – Defence and Development (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XIII: The General Theory and After, Part I – Preparation (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XII: Economic Articles and Correspondence – Investment and Editorial (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XI: Economic Articles and Correspondence Academic (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. X: Essays in Biography (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. IX: Essays in Persuasion (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. VIII: A Treatise on Probability (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971-89).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. VII: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1978).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. VI: A Treatise on Money, Part II – The Applied Theory of Money (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1976).
  - The Collected Writingsost of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. V: A Treatise on Money, Part I – The Pure Theory of Money (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1975).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. IV: A Tract on Monetary Reform (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1974).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. III: A Revision of the Theory (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1973).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. II: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1972).
  - The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. I: Indian Currency and Finance (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1971).
- D. E. Moggridge, The Return to Gold, 1925: The Formulation of Economic Policy and its Critics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969).
- _____________, Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography (Routledge, London, 1992).
- _____________, Keynes on the Wireless (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2010).
- Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Volume I: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 (Macmillan, London, 1983).
- ______________, John Maynard Keynes, Volume II: The Economist as Saviour, 1921-1936 (Macmillan, London, 1992).
- ______________, John Maynard Keynes, Volume III: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946 (Macmillan, London, 2000).
- ______________, Keynes: The Return of the Master (Allen Lane, London, 2009).
- ______________, Keynes: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010).
- Benn Stiel, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 213).
- Peter Temin and David Vines, Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014).
- Nicholas Wapshot, Keynes-Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics (W. W. Norton, New York, 2011).
- John Cunningham Wood (ed.), John Maynard Keynes: Critical Assessments of Leading Economists (Routledge, London, 1982).
- _________________________, John Maynard Keynes – Second Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Economists (Routledge, London, 1994).
Walter Layton, An Introduction to the Study of Prices (London, 1912).
- David Hubback, No Ordinary Press Baron: A Life of Walter Layton (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1985).
Joseph Alexander Leckie
- Phil Jones, Joseph Alexander Leckie (Walsall, 1989).
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
- J. R. M. Butler, Lord Lothian (London, 1960).
Gerald Macmillan, Honours for Sale: The Strange Story of Maundy Gregory (Richards Press, London, 1954).
Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander MP, We Were Not All Wrong (Victor Gollancz, London, 1941).
Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (ed.), The History of Mander Brothers (Wolverhampton, 1955).
- Nicholas Mander, Vanished Leaves: A Biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton (Owlpen Press, 2004).
David Marquand, Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 2009).
David Marshall Mason, National Currency and Finance Reform (Loxley Bros., London, 1923).
___________________, Monetary Policy, 1914-1928 (M. Hopkinson & Co., London, 1928).
___________________, National Finance and the Future of Gols (National Liberal Club, London, 1937).
___________________, Stabilization of the Currency: Its Bearing on Foreign Trade (Industrial Publications, London, 1937).
Ramsay Muir, Peers & Bureaucrats: Two Problems of English Government (Constable, London, 1910).
____________, Liberalism and Industry: Towards a Better Social Order (Constable, London, 1920).
____________, History of the British Commonwealth, 2 vols. (London, 1920-2).
____________, Essays in Liberalism: Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 (Collins, London, 1922).
____________, Politics and Progress: A Survey of the Problems of Today (Methuen, London, 1923).
____________, America the Golden (London, 1927).
____________, British History (London, 1928).
____________, Robinson the Great (London, 1929).
____________, The Political Consequences of the Great War (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1931).
____________, The Interdependent World and its Problems (London, 1932).
____________, A Brief History of Our Own Times (London, 1934).
____________, The Record of the National Government (Allen & Unwin, London, 1936).
____________, Future for Democracy (Liberal Book Club/Nicholson & Watson, London, 1939).
____________, Civilization and Liberty (Jonathan Cape, London, 1940).
- Stuart Hodgson (ed.), Ramsay Muir: An Autobiography and Some Essays (Jonathan Cape, London, 1944).
Ramsay Muir et al, The Liberal Way: A Survey of Liberal Policy Published by the Authority of the National Liberal Federation (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1934).
Harold Nathan, Baron Nathan of Churt
- H. Montgomery Hyde, Strong for Service: The Life of Lord Nathan of Churt (W.H. Allen, London, 1968).
Frank Owen and Cemlyn Jones, Red Rainbow (London, 1931).
Frank Owen and R.J. Thompson, He Was the Kingdom (London, 1937).
Frank Owen, Michael Foot and Peter Howard (as “Cato”), Guilty Men (London, 1938).
Frank Owen, The Three Dictators (London, 1940).
__________, Our Ally China (London, 1942).
__________, The Campaign in Burma (London, 1946).
__________, The Eddie Chapman Story (London, 1956).
__________, Peron: His Rise and Fall (London, 1957).
__________, The Fall of Singapore (London, 1960).
- Gron Williams, Firebrand: The Frank Owen Story (Square One Publications, Worcester, 1993).
Vivian Phillipps, My Days and Ways (Pillans and Wilson, Edinburgh, 1943).
Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Reading (Guild Books, London, 1920 [1953 ed.]).
Michael Ramsey
- Owen Chadwick, Michael Ramsey: A Life (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990).
J. M. Robertson, Free Trade (J.M. Dent, London, 1919).
_____________, The Meaning of Liberalism (Methuen, London, 1912; rev. 1925 edition). Introduction by H.H. Asquith.
Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition (Macmillan, London, 1933, 1946 ed.).
____________, An Essay on Marxian Economics (Macmillan, London, 1942).
____________, The Production Function and the Theory of Capital (London, 1953).
____________, Accumulation of Capital (London, 1956).
____________, Exercises in Economic Analysis (London, 1960).
____________, Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth (London, 1962).e
____________, Economic Philosophy: An Essay on the Progress of Economic Thought (London, 1962).
____________, Freedom and Necessity: An Introduction to the Study of Society (1970).
____________, Economic Heresies: Some Old Fashioned Questions in Economic Theory (Basic Books, New York, 1971).
J. F. S. Ross, Parliamentary Representation (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1943).
_____________, Electoral Justice (British Periodicals, London, 1931).
Charles Royle, Opened Doors (Meat Trades’ Journal Co., London, 1949).
Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume I: 1872-1914 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1967).
- _____________, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume II: 1914-1944 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1968).
- _____________, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume III: 1944-1967 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1969).
- Thom Weidlich, Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Bertrand Russell (Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2000).
Viscount Samuel, Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy (Penguin, London, 1937)
______________, Memoirs (Cresset Press, London, 1945).
- John Bowle, Viscount Samuel: A Biography (Victor Gollancz, London, 1957).
- Bernard Wasserstein, Herbert Samuel: A Political Life (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992).
James Scott, F. C. R. Douglas and A. R. McDougal, Agriculture and Land Value Taxation (London, 1930).
James Scott, H. Samuels and P. Fores, The Land Value Tax (London, 1931).
James Scott, The Law of Smallholdings in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1933).
A. MacCallum Scott, From Liberalism to Labour (Deveron Press, Aberdeenshire, 1927).
G.R. Searle, The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2001 [rev. 2nd ed.]).
Geoffrey Shakespeare, Let Candles Be Brought In (MacDonald, London, 1949).
Ernest Simon [E. D. Simon], A City Council From Within (London, 1926).
- E. D. Simon, How to Abolish the Slums (Longmans, London, 1929).
- Mary Stocks, Ernest Simon of Manchester (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1963).
Sir John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
- Viscount Simon, Retrospect: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Viscount Simon GCSI, GCVO (Hutchinson, London, 1952).
- David Dutton, Simon: A Political Biography of Sir John Simon (Aurum Press, London, 1992).
Archibald Sinclair
- Gerard De Groot, Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair (New York University Press, New York, 1993).
- Ian Hunter (ed.), Winston and Archie: The Collected Correspondence of Winston Churchill and Sir Archibald Sinclair (Politico’s, London, 2004).
Peter Sloman, The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015).
J. A. Spender, The Public Life, 2 vols. (London, 1925).
__________, Life, Journalism and Politics, 2 vols. (London, 1927).
__________, Men and Things (London, 1937).
H. Wilson Harris, J.A. Spender (Cassel, London, 1946).
Robert Thomas
- Emlyn Richards, Syr Robert John Thomas, y Garreglwyd: Sir Ifor Williams Memorial Lecture (Anglesey, 1997).
Andrew Thorpe, The British General Election of 1931 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991).
Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain Since 1918 (University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2000).
George Ward
- David Herbert, The Life and Times of George Ward of Barwell (1879-1951) (Hinckley and District Museum, Hinckley, 2006).
Gordon West, Lloyd George’s Last Fight: An Account of the Liberal Party Campaign Before the 1929 General Election (Alston Rivers, London, 1930).
J. H. Whitley
- Richard Toye, Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Routledge, London, 2017).
Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935 (Collins, London, 1966).
E. H. Young, Foreign Companies and Other Corporations (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1912).
__________, A Muse at Sea (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1919).
__________, By Sea and Land (Jack, London, 1920).
__________, The System of National Finance (John Murray, London, 1924 [3rd ed.]).
__________, Report on Financial Conditions in Poland (Waterlow, London, 1924).
E. H. Young and R. V. Vernon, Report of the Financial Mission Appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Enquire into the Financial Position and Prospects of the Government of Iraq, 1925 (Young-Vernon Report) (HMSO, London, 1925).
Alan Wyburn-Powell, Defectors and the Liberal Party, 1910-2010: A Study of Inter-Party Relationships (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012).

Liberal history 1945-1980

John Baker, Ballot Box to Jury Box: The Life and Times of an English Crown Court Judge (Waterside Press, London, 2005).
John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman
- John Bannerman; John Fowler (ed.), The Memoirs of Lord Bannerman of Kildonan (Impulse Books, Aberdeen, 1972).
Peter Bessell, Cover-Up: The Jeremy Thorpe Affair (Simon Books, California, 1980).
Bernard Burrows, Geoffrey Denton, and Geoffrey Edwards (eds), Federal Solutions to European Issues (Macmillan, London, 1977).
A. S. Comyns Carr, That Monster Monopoly (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946).
B. D. Copland, Religion, Personality and Politics (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946).
Harry Cowie, Why Liberal? (Penguin, London, 1964).
Arthur Cyr, Liberal Party Politics in Britain (John Calder, London, 1977).
James D. G. Davidson, Thinker, Sailor, Shepherd, Spy? (G2 Rights, London, 2009).
Ralf Dahrendorf, On Britain (BBC, London, 1982).
Clement Davies
- Alan Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies: Liberal Leader (Politico’s, London, 2003).
Robin Day, Grand Inquisitor (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1989).
Mark Egan, Coming into Focus: The Transformation of the Liberal Party 1945-64 (VDM Verlag, Berlin, 2009).
Clement Freud, Freud Ego (BBC Books, London, 2001).
_____________, Freud on Food (Dent, London, 1978).
_____________, Below the Belt: Eating and Drinking With Clement Freud (Robson Books, London, 1984).
_____________, No-One Else Has Complained (Elm Tree Books, London, 1988).
_____________, Freud On Course: The Racing Lives of Clement Freud (Racing Post, Newbury, 2010).
- Emma Freud (ed.), A Feast of Freud: The Wittiest Writings of Clement Freud (Bantam, New York, 2009).
Roger Fulford, The Liberal Case (Penguin, London, 1959).
Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
- Gladwyn Jebb, Is Tension Necessary? (London, 1959).
- ____________, The European Idea (London, 1960).
- Gladwyn Jebb (as Lord Gladwyn), Peaceful Co-Existence (London, 1962).
- ___________________________, Half-Way to 1984 (London, 1967).
- ___________________________, De Gaulle’s Europe (London, 1969).
- ___________________________, Europe after De Gaulle (London, 1970).
- ___________________________, The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn (London, 1972).
Jo Grimond, The Liberal Future (Faber and Faber, London, 1958).
__________, The Liberal Challenge: Democracy Through Participation (Hollis and Carter, London, 1963).
__________, The Common Welfare (Temple Smith, London, 1978).
__________, Memoirs (Heinemann, London, 1979).
__________, A Personal Manifesto (Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1983).
__________, The St. Andrews of Jo Grimond (Alan Sutton, St. Andrews, 1992).
- Peter Barberis, Liberal Lion – Jo Grimond: A Political Life (I.B. Tauris, London, 2005).
- Peter Joyce, Giving Politics a Good Name: A Tribute to Jo and Laura Grimond (Liberal Democrat Publications, London, 1995).
- Michael McManus, Jo Grind: Towards the Sound of Gunfire (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2001).
- Orkney and Shetland Liberal Democrats, Jo and Laura Grimond: A Selection of Memories and Photographs (Orcadian, Kirkwall, 2000).
Jo Grimond and Brian Neve, The Referendum (Rex Collings, London, 1976).
Ellyn Hooson, Baron Hooson
- Derec Llwyd Morgan (ed.), Emlyn Hooson: Essays and Reminiscences (Gomer Press, Ceredigion, 2014).
Rhys Hopkin Morris
- John Emanuel and D. Ben Rees, Bywyd a Gwaith Syr Rhys Hopkin Morris, (Gomer Press, Wales, 1980).
- T.J. Evans, Rhys Hopkin Morris: The Man and His Character (Gomerian Press, Llandysull, 1958).
Russell Johnston, Scottish Liberal Party Conference Speeches, 1971-78 (Bookmag, Edinburgh, 1979).
______________, Just Russell: The Collected Speeches of Sir Russell Johnston MP, 1979-86 (Hebden Royd, Hebden Bridge, 1987).
Sir Hugh Jones, Diplomacy to Politics, by Way of the Jungle — Memoirs, Volume One (Book Guild, Brighton, 2002).
_____________, Campaigning Face to Face— Memoirs, Volume Two (Book Guild, Brighton, 2007).
Ludovic Kennedy, On My Way to the Club (Collins, London, 1989).
Jonathan Kirkup, The Lib-Lab Pact: A Parliamentary Agreement, 1977-78 (AIAA, London, 2015).
Enid Lakeman, When Labour Fails (Herbert Joseph, London,1946).
_____________, Power to Elect: The Case for Proportional Representation (Heinemann, London, 1982).
Enid Lakeman and James Lambert, Voting in Democracies (Faber & Faber, London, 1955).
- Enid Lakeman, How Democracies Vote: A Study of Electoral Systems, rev. 2nd ed. (Faber & Faber, London, 1974).
M. J. Landa, The Man Without a Country (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946).
George Mackie, Farming and Politics: A Liberal Life (The Memoir Club, Stanhope, 2004).
Christopher Mayhew, Britain’s Role Tomorrow (Hutchinson, London, 1967).
_________________, Europe: The Case for Entry (London, 1971).
_________________, Publish It Not…The Middle East Cover-Up (London, 1975).
_________________, The Disillusioned Voter’s Guide to Electoral Reform (Arrow, London, 1976).
_________________, Time to Explain: An Autobiography (Hutchinson, London, 1987).
_________________, A War of Words: A Cold War Witness (I.B. Tauris, London, 1998).
Alistair Michie and Simon Hoggart, The Pact: The Inside Story of the Lib-Lab Government, 1977-78 (Quartet Books, London, 1978).
Alan Peacock, Anxious To Do Good: Learning to be an Economist the Hard Way (Imprint Academic, London, 2010).
Annette Penhaligon, Penhaligon (Bloomsbury, London, 1989).
Jorgen Scott Rasmussen, The Liberal Party: A Study of Retrenchment and Revival (Constable, London, 1966).
Joe Rogaly, Parliament for the People: A Handbook of Electoral Reform (Temple Smith, London, 1976).
Tom S. Rothwell, A Nation of Shopkeepers (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946).
Robert Saunders, Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018).
Cyril Smith, Big Cyril: The Autobiography of Cyril Smith (W.H. Allen, London, 1977).
___________, Reflections From Rochdale: As I Saw It And As I See It (Liberal Democrat Publications, London, 1997).
- Simon Danczuck and Matthew Baker, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith (Biteback, London, 2014).
Reginald A. Smith, A Liberal Window on the World (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946).
Brian Staley, My Road from Saigon (Conrad Press, Canterbury, 2019).
Dick Taverne, The Future of the Left: Lincoln and After (Jonathan Cape, London, 1974).
___________, Against the Tide: Politics and Beyond – A Memoir (Biteback, London, 2014).
Jeremy Thorpe, In My Own Time (Politico’s, London, 1999).
- Lewis Chester, Magnus Linklater and David May, Jeremy Thorpe: A Secret Life (Andre Deutsch, London, 1979).
- Peter Chippindale and David Leigh, The Thorpe Committal (Arrow, London, 1979).
- Simon Freeman and Barrie Penrose, Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe (Bloomsbury, London, 1996).
- Philip Dalling, Jeremy Thorpe: A Dazzlingly Talented Man (Hallsgrove, Wellington, 2018).
- Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtier, The Pencourt File (Secker & Warburg, London, 1978).
- John Preston, A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment (Penguin/Viking, London, 2016).
- Auberon Waugh, The Last Word: An Eye-Witness Account of the Thorpe Trial (Michael Joseph, London, 1979).
Graham Tope, Graham Tope: A Life in Politics – Conversations Between Father and Son (Sutton Liberal Democrats, Sutton, 2014).
Donald Wade, Liberalism, its Task in the Twentieth Century (London, 1944).
___________, The Way of the West (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946).
___________, Europe and the British Health Service (Research Publications Services, London, 1974).
___________, Behind the Speaker’s Chair (Austick’s Publications, Leeds, 1978).
Richard Wainwright
- Matt Cole, Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2011).
Alan Watkins, The Liberal Dilemma (MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1966).

Liberal-SDP Alliance, 1981-8

David Alton, What Kind of Country? (Marshall Pickering, Liverpool, 1987).
__________, Whose Choice Anyway? (Marshall Pickering, Liverpool, 1987).
__________, Faith in Britain (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1991).
__________, Signs of Contradiction (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1996).
Alan Beith, The Case for the Liberal Party and the Alliance (Longman, London,1983).
Alan Beith, John Gummer and Eric Heffer, Faith in Politics: Which Way Should Christians Vote? (SPCK Publishing, London, 1987).
Ian Bradley, Breaking the Mould? The Birth and Prospects of the Social Democratic Party (Martin Robertson, London, 1982).
_________, The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Britain (Chatto and Windus, London, 1985).
Ken Coates, The Social Democrats: Those Who Went and Those Who Stayed – The Forward March of Labour Halted? (Spokesman, Nottingham, 1983).
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995).
Patrick Devlin, Easing the Passing: The Trial of Dr. John Bodkin Adams (Bodley Head, London, 1985).
Felix Dodds, Power to the People: Confessions of a Young Liberal Activist 1975-1987 (New World Frontiers, 2018).
Patrick Dunleavy and Christopher T. Husbands, British Democracy at the Crossroads: Voting and Party Competition in the 1980s (Allen & Unwin, London, 1985).
Derek Ezra
- Roderick Braithwaite (ed.), Derek Ezra: Leadership in Energy — A Collective Memoir on the Life and Work of Lord Ezra of Horsham, Chairman of the National Coal Board, 1971-1982 (Worshipful Company of Fuellers, London, 2014).
Stephen Haseler, The Tragedy of Labour (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1980).
Roy Jenkins, What Matters now (Collins/Fontana, London, 1972).
__________, Partnership of Principle: Writings and Speeches on the Making of the Alliance (Secker & Warburg, London, 1985).
__________, European Diary, 1977-1981 (Collins, London, 1989).
__________, A Life at the Centre (Macmillan, London, 1991).
- Andrew Adonis & Keith Thomas (eds), Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).
- Douglas Bence and Clive Branson, Roy Jenkins: A Question of Principle? (Moat Hall, London, 1982).
- John Campbell, Roy Jenkins: A Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1982).
- _____________, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (Jonathan Cape, London, 2014).
- Giles Radice, Friends & Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins & Healey (Little, Brown, London, 2002).
Jeremy Josephs, Inside the Alliance (John Martin, London, 1983).
Wayland Kennet (ed.), The Rebirth of Britain (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1982).
Alastair Kilmarnock (ed.), The Radical Challenge: The Response of Social Democracy (Andre Deutsch, London, 1987).
Emil Joseph Kirchner, Liberal Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988).
Richard Layard, More Jobs, Less Inflation: The Case for a Counter-Inflation Tax (Grant-McIntyre, London, 1982).
David Marquand, Parliament for Europe (Jonathan Cape, London, 1979).
_______________, The Unprincipled Society: New Demands and Old Politics (Fontana, London, 1988).
Dennis Outwin, The SDP Story (Hatswood, Maidenhead, 1987).
David Owen, The Politics of Defence (Jonathan Cape, London, 1972)
__________, In Sickness and in Health: The Politics of Medicine (Quartet Books, London, 1976).
__________, Human Rights (Jonathan Cape, London, 1978).
__________, Face the Future (Jonathan Cape, London, 1981).
- __________, Face the Future [heavily revised edition] (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982).
__________, A Future That Will Work (Penguin, London, 1984).
__________, A United Kingdom (Penguin, London, 1986).
__________, Personally Speaking to Kenneth Harris (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1987).
__________, Our NHS (Pan, London, 1988).
__________, Time to Declare (Michael Joseph, London, 1991).
__________, Seven Ages: Poetry for a Lifetime (Michael Joseph, London, 1992).
__________, Balkan Odyssey (Victor Gollancz, London, 1995).
__________, The Hubris Syndrome (Politico’s, London, 2007).
__________, In Sickness And In Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years (Methuen, London, 2008).
__________, Nuclear Papers (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2009).
__________, Europe Restructured? The Eurozone Crisis and its Aftermath (Methuen, London, 2012).
- __________, Europe Restructured: Vote to Leave [heavily revised edition] (Methuen, London, 2016).
__________, Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Vance-Owen Peace Plan (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2013).
__________, The Hidden Perspectives: The Military Conversations of 1906-1914 (Haus Publishing, London, 2014).
__________, The Health of the Nation: NHS in Peril (Methuen, London, 2014).
__________, Cabinet’s Finest Hour: The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 (Haus Publishing, London, 2016).
__________, Hubris – The Road to Donald Trump: Power, Populism, Narcissism (Methuen, London, 2018).
David Owen (ed.), Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Vance/Owen Peace Plan (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2013).
David Owen, Nigel Lawson, Arthur Seldon and Michael Taylor, The Return of the State: Nurturing the Soul of Society (Canterbury Press, Norwich, 1999).
David Owen and David Ludlow, British Foreign Policy After Brexit: An Independent Voice (Biteback, London, 2017).
David Owen and David Steel, The Time Has Come (Weidenfeld Paperbacks, London, 1987).
Stephen Padgett & William E. Paterson, A History of Social Democracy in Post-War Europe (Longman, London, 1981).
William E. Paterson and Alastair H. Thomas (eds), The Future of Social Democracy: Problems and Prospects of Social Democratic Parties in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986 [first edition was 1977]).
William Rodgers, The Politics of Change (Secker & Warburg, London, 1982).
_______________, Fourth Among Equals (Politico’s, London, 2000).
Elizabeth Shields, Year to Remember: Member of Parliament for Ryedale, 1986-7 (Liberal Democrat Publications, Hebden Bridge, 1995).
David Steel, No Entry: The Background and Implications of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1968 (C. Hurst, London, 1969).
_________, A House Divided: The Lib-Lab Pact and the Future of British Politics (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1980).
_________, Against Goliath: David Steel’s Story (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1989).
David Steel (ed.), Partners in One Nation: A New Vision of Britain 2000 (Bodley Head, London, 1985).
- Peter Bartram, David Steel: His Life and Politics (W.H. Allen, London, 1978).
- Stuart Mole (eds), The Decade of Realignment: The Assembly Speeches of David Steel, 1976-1985 (Liberal Publications Department, Hebden Bridge, 1985).
- David Torrance, David Steel: Rising Hope to Elder Statesman (Biteback, London, 2012).
Judy Steel, Tales from the Tap End: The Memoirs of Judy Steel (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2010).
Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP (Michael Joseph, London, 1982).
Patricia Sykes, Losing From the Inside: The Cost of Conflict in the British Social Democratic Party (Transaction, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1990).
Geoffrey Lee Williams and Alan Lee Williams, Labour’s Decline and the Social Democrats’ Fall (Macmillan, London, 1989).
Shirley Williams, Politics is for People (Penguin, London, 1981).
_____________, A Job to Live: The Impact of Tomorrow’s Technology On Work And Society (Penguin, London, 1985).
_____________, God & Caesar: Reflections on Politics and Religion (Continuum, London, 2004).
_____________, Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography (Virago, London, 2009).
- Andrew Duff (ed.), Making the Difference: Essays in Honour of Shirley Williams (Biteback, London, 2012).
- Mark Peel, Shirley Williams: The Biography (Biteback, London, 2013).
Des Wilson, I Know It Was the Place’s Fault (Oliphant’s, London, 1970).
__________, Minority Report: A Diary of Protest, 1970-73 (Quartet Books, London, 1973).
__________, So You Want to Be Prime Minister? An Introduction to British Politics Today (Viking, London, 1979).
__________, The Lead Scandal: The Fight to Save Children from Damage by Lead in Petrol (Ashgate, Sussex, 1983).
__________, Pressure: The A to Z of Campaigning in Britain (Ashgate, Sussex, 1984).
__________, The Environmental Crisis: A Handbook for All Friends of the Earth (Ashgate, Sussex, 1984).
__________, The Secrets File: The Case for Freedom of Information in Britain Today (Heinemann, London, 1984).
__________, Citizen Action: Taking Action in Your Community (Longman, London, 1986).
__________, Battle for Power: Inside the Alliance General Election Campaign (Sphere Books, London, 1987).
__________, Memoirs of a Minor Public Figure (Quartet Books, London, 2011).
Des Wilson and Leighton Andrews, Campaigning: The A-Z of Public Advocacy (Thorogood, London, 1994).
Peter Zentner, Social Democracy in Britain: Must Labour Lose? (John Martin, London, 1982).

Liberal Democrats, 1988-present

Andrew Adonis, 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond (Biteback, London, 2013).
Danny Alexander (ed.), Why Vote Liberal Democrat? (Biteback, London, 2010).
David Alliance, A Bazaar Life: The Autobiography of David Alliance (Robson Press, London, 2015).
Paddy Ashdown, Citizen’s Britain: A Radical Agenda for the 1990s (Fourth Estate, London, 1989).
_____________, Beyond Westminster: Finding Hope in Britain (Simon & Schuster, London, 1993).
_____________, The Ashdown Diaries: Volume One, 1988-1997 (Penguin, London, 2000).
_____________, The Ashdown Diaries: Volume Two, 1997-1999 (Penguin, London, 2001).
_____________, Swords and Ploughshares: Bringing Peace to the 21st Century (Orion, London, 2007).
_____________, A Fortunate Life: The Autobiography of Paddy Ashdown (Aurum, London, 2009).
_____________, A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of WW2 (Aurum, London, 2012).
_____________, The Cruel Victory: The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors, 1944 (Collins, London, 2014).
_____________, Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux, 1942-1944 (Collins, London, 2016).
_____________, Nein! Standing Up to Hitler, 1935-1944 (Collins, London, 2018).
John Ault, The Liberal Democrats in Cornwall: Culture, Character or Campaigns? (CreateSpace, London, 2015).
Norman Baker, The Strange Death of David Kelly (Methuen, London, 2007).
_____________, Against the Grain (Biteback, London, 2015).
Alan Beith, A View From the North: Life, Politics, Faith and Pleasure From England’s Northernmost Constituency (Northumbria University Press, Northumbria, 2008).
Hugh Bochel and Martin Powell (eds), The Coalition Government and Social Policy: Restructuring the Welfare State (Policy Press, London, 2016).
Vernon Bogdanor, The Coalition and the Constitution (Hart, London, 2011).
Adam Boulton and Joey Jones, Hung Together: The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government (Simon and Schuster, London, 2010).
Duncan Brack (ed.), Why I Am a Liberal Democrat (Liberal Democrat Publications, London, 1996).
_________________, The Green Book: New Directions for Liberals in Government (Biteback, London, 2013).
Duncan Brack, Richard S. Grayson and David Howarth (eds), Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century (Politico’s, London, 2007).
Duncan Brack, Richard S. Grayson and David Howarth (eds), Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century – Revised Edition (Politico’s, London, 2009).
Robert Brown and Nigel Lindsay, The Little Yellow Book: Reclaiming the Liberal Democrats for the People (Fastprint, Peterborough, 2012).
Robert Brown, Gillian Goyer and Nigel Lindsay (eds), Unlocking Liberalism: Life After the Coalition (Liberal Futures, Edinburgh, 2014).
Jeremy Browne, Race Plan: An Authentic Liberal Plan to Get Britain Fit for ‘The Global Race’ (Reform, London, 2014).
_____________, Why Vote Liberal Democrat 2015? The Essential Guide (Biteback, London, 2014).
Vince Cable, The Storm: The Economic Crisis, and What it Means (Atlantic Books, London, 2009).
__________, Free Radical: A Memoir (Atlantic Books, London, 2010).
__________, After the Storm: The World Economy & Britain’s Economic Future (Atlantic Books, London, 2015).
__________, Open Arms (Corvus, London, 2017).
Menzies Campbell, My Autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2008).
Shami Chakribarty, On Liberty (Allen Lane, London, 2014).
Nick Clegg, The Liberal Moment (Demos, London, 2009).
_________, Politics: Between the Extremes (Bodley Head, London, 2016).
_________, How to Stop Brexit (and Make Britain Great Again) (Bodley Head, London, 2017).
- Chris Bowers, Nick Clegg: The Biography (Biteback, London, 2011).
John Crace, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Short Guide to Modern Politics, the Coalition, and the General Election (Bantam, London, 2014).
Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (Viking, London, 2013).
Doreen Derby (ed.), Lobby Fodder: The Liberal Democrat Cookbook (Liberal Democrat Publications, London, 1994).
Andrew Duff, The Struggle for Europe’s Constitution (Federal Trust for Education and Research, London, 2005).
Andrew Duff (ed.), Understanding the Euro (Federal Trust for Education and Research, London, 1998).
Helen Duffet (ed.), The Tangerine Book: The Liberal Democrat Voice Annual 2008 (Lulu, London, 2007).
Elizabeth Evans, Gender and the Liberal Democrats: Representing Women? (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2011).
Tim Farron, A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal (London: SPCK, 2019).
Lynne Featherstone, Equal Ever After: The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage – And How I Made It Happen (Biteback, London, 2016).
Helen Flynn (ed.), Four Go in Search of Big Ideas: Putting Progressive Ideas at the Heart of UK Politics (Social Liberal Forum, London, 2018).
Andrew George, A View From the Bottom Left-Hand Corner (Patten Press,Truro,2002).
Jasper Gerard, The Clegg Coup: Britain’s First Coalition Government Since Lloyd George (Gibson Square, London, 2011).
Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, Made in Spain: Recipes and Stories from my Country and Beyond (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2016).
Robert Hazell and Ben Yong, Politics of Coalition: How the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government Works (Hart, London, 2012).
Kevin Hickson, The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats Since 1945 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2009).
Paul Hindley and Gordon Lishman (eds), The Wolves in the Forest: Tackling Inequality in the 21st Century (Social Liberal Forum, London, 2019).
Dan Hodges, One Minute to Ten: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg — Three Men, One Ambition, and the Price of Power (Penguin, London, 2016).
Chris Huhne and James Forder, Both Sides of the Coin: Arguments For and Against the Euro and European Monetary Union (Profile Books, London, 2001 [2nd ed.]).
Tudor Jones, The Revival of British Liberalism from Grimond to Clegg (Palgrave Macmillan, Baskingstoke, 2011).
- __________, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism from Jo Grimond to Brexit (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2019).
Peter Joyce,Towards the Sound of Gunfire: A History of the Liberal Democrats (Liberal Democrat Publications, London, 1997 [rev. 3rd ed.]).
__________, Realignment of the Left: A History of the Relationship Between the Liberal Democrat and Labour Parties (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1999).
Charles Kennedy, The Future of Politics (HarperCollins, London, 2000).
- Greg Hurst, Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw (Politico’s, London, 2006).
- Greg Hurst, Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw – Updated Edition (Methuen, London, 2015).
Barry Langford (ed.), All Together Now: The Progressive Alliance and the 2017 General Election Campaign (Biteback, London, 2017).
Jo Latham and Claire Mathys, Liberal Democrats Do God (CreateSpace, London, 2013).
David Laws and Paul Marshall (eds), The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism (Profile Books, London, 2004).
David Laws, Julian Astle, Paul Marshall and Alasdair Murray (eds), Britain After Blair: A Liberal Agenda (Profile Books, London, 2006).
David Laws, 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Liberal Democrat-Conservative Coalition (Biteback, London, 2010).
__________, Coalition: The Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government (Biteback, London, 2016).
__________, Coalition Diaries, 2012-2015 (Biteback, London, 2017).
__________, Who Killed Kitchener? The Life and Death of Britain’s most famous War Minister (Biteback, London, 2019).
Neal Lawson and Neil Sherlock (eds), The Progressive Century: The Future of the Centre-Left in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2001).
Simon Lee and Matt Beech (eds), The Cameron-Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in the Age of Austerity (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011).
__________________________, The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government, 2nd edition (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2015).
Anthony Lester, Five Ideas to Fight For: How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why It Matters (OneWorld, London, 2016).
____________, Talking to Myself: Memoirs of a Human Rights Activist (Biteback, London, 2020).
Don MacIver (ed.), The Liberal Democrats (Prentice Hall – Harvester Wheatsheaf, London, 1996).
Donnachadh McCarthy, The Prostitute State: How Britain’s Democracy Has Been Bought (3 Acorns, London, 2014).
Gina Miller, Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2018).
Lisa Nandy, Caroline Lucas and Chris Bowers, The Alternative: Towards a New Progressive Politics (Biteback, London, 2016).
Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to Democratic Awakening (W.H. Allen, London, 2012).
Julia Neuberger, The Moral State We’re In: A Manifesto for a 21st Century Society (HarperCollins, London, 2005).
Emma Nicholson, Why Does the West Forget? (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993).
______________, Secret Society: Inside – and Outside – the Tory Party (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1999).
Mark Oaten, Coalition: The Politics and Personalities of Coalition Governments Since 1850 (Harriman House, London, 2007).
__________, Screwing Up: How One MP Survived Politics, Scandal and Turning Forty (Biteback, London, 2009).
Lembit Öpik and Ed Joyce, The Alternative View: A Way Back for the Liberal Democrats (Queensferry Publishing, London, 2012).
Mark Pack, Bad News: What the Headlines Don’t Tell Us (Biteback, London, 2020).
Mark Pack and Edward Maxfield, 101 Ways to Win an Election (Biteback, London, 2012).
- __________________________, 101 Ways to Win an Election – 2nd edition (Biteback, London, 2016).
Rachel Pitchford and Tony Greaves, Merger: The Inside Story (Liberal Renewal, Colne, 1989).
Tim Razzall, Chance Encounters (Biteback, London, 2014).
Richard Reeves and Philip Collins, The Liberal Republic (Demos, London, 2009).
Richard Reeves, A Liberal Inside (Demos, London, 2012).
Chris Rennard, Winning Here: My Campaigning Life, Memoirs, Volume I (Biteback, London, 2018).
Andrew Russell and Edward Fieldhouse, Neither Left Nor Right? The Liberal Democrats and the Electorate (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004).
Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015).
Trevor Smith, Workhouse to Westminster (Caper Press, London, 2018).
John Stevenson, Third Party Politics in Britain Since 1945: Liberals, Alliance and Liberal Democrats (Blackwell, Oxford, 1993).
Jo Swinson, Equal Power: And How You Can Make It Happen (Atlantic, London, 2018).
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, The New World Order of Alexander Thynn: Views on Politics, Society and Religion (Starhaven, London, 2000).
Ann Treneman, Dave & Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon (Robson, London, 2011).
____________, All in This Together: My Five Years as a Political Stalker (Biteback, London, 2015).
Paul Tyler, Who Decides? (Arthur H. Stockwell, London, 2014).
Nick Tyrone, Apocalypse Delayed: Why the Left is Still in Trouble (Biteback, London, 2017).
William Wallace, Why Vote Liberal Democrat? (Penguin, London, 1997).
David Walter, The Strange Rebirth of Liberal England (Politico’s, London, 2003).
Graham Watson and Joanna Hazelwood (eds), To the Power of Ten: Essays by the UK Liberal Democrats in Parliament (Centre for Reform, London, 2000).
Graham Watson and Katharine Durrant (eds), Liberal Democracy and Globalisation (Bagehot, London, 2005).
Graham Watson and Christine Gilmore (eds), The Power of Speech: Leadership Speeches, 2002-2006, Graham Watson MEP (Bagehot, London, 2006).
Graham Watson, The Liberals in the North-South Dialogue (FNS, Bonn, 1980).
_____________, Liberal Language: Speeches and Essays, 1998-2003 (Bagehot, London, 2003).
_____________, EU’ve Got Mail! Liberal Letters from the European Parliament (Bagehot, London, 2004).
_____________, Building a Liberal Europe: The ALDE Project (John Harper, London, 2010).
_____________, Contintental Drift: Liberal Letters from the European Parliament, 2009-2014 (Bagehot, London, 2014).
Graham Watson (ed.), 2020 Vision: Liberalism and Globalisation (Centre for Reform, London, 2001).
Graham Watson and Simon Titley (eds), Liberalism: Something to Shout About (Bagehot, London, 2006).
Paul Whiteley, Patrick Seyd and Antony Billinghurst, Third Force Politics: Liberal Democrats at the Grassroots (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats series
- Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats, First Edition, 1998 (Parliamentary Candidates’ Association, London, 1998).
- Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats, Millennium [Second] Edition (Parliamentary Candidates’ Association, London, 2000).
- Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats, Third Edition (Parliamentary Candidates’ Association, London, 2002).
- Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats, Fourth Edition (Parliamentary Candidates’ Association, London, 2004).
- Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats, Fifth Edition (Parliamentary Candidates’ Association, London, 2006).
- Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats, Sixth Edition (Parliamentary Candidates’ Association, London, 2009).
- Who’s Who in the Liberal Democrats, Seventh Edition (Parliamentary Candidates’ Association, London, 2011).
Rob Wilson, 5 Days to Power: The Journey to Coalition Britain (Biteback, London, 2010).
__________, The Eye of the Storm: The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal (Biteback, London, 2014).

Histories of Liberal clubs

Brooks’s

Henry S. Eeles and Earl Spencer, Brooks’s, 1764-1964 (London: Country Life, 1964).
J. Mordaunt Crook and Charles Sebag-Montefiore (eds), Brooks’s 1764-2014: The Story of a Whig Club (London: Brooks’s, 2013).
Charles Sebag-Montefiore, Charles James Fox – Brooks’s and Whiggery – The Fox Club (London: Brooks’s, 2006).
J. F. Wegg-Prosser (ed.), Memorials of Brooks’s, from the Foundation of the Club, 1764, to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Compiled from the Records of the Club (London: Ballantyne, 1907).
Philip Ziegler and Desmond Seward (eds), Brooks’s: A Social History (London: Constable, 1991).

Cobden Club

C. J. L. Brock and G. H. B. Jackson (eds), The Cobden Club (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1939).

Devonshire Club

Tom Clarke, The Devonshire Club (London: Devonshire Club, 1943).
Denys Forrest, Foursome in St. James’s (London: East India Club, 1982).
Henry Turner Waddy, The Devonshire Club and “Crockford’s” (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1919).

Manchester Reform Club

C.W. Hobson (ed.), The Manchester Reform Club, 1871-1921: Fifty Years of History (Manchester Reform Club, Manchester, 1922).

National Liberal Club

Anonymous, The National Liberal Club (London: National Liberal Club, 1933).
Coss Bilson (ed.), The National Liberal Club, 1882-1982 (London: National Liberal Club, 1982).
Jonathan Clarke, Early Structural Steel in London Buildings: A Discreet Revolution (London: English Heritage, 2014).
Veronica Herrington, Works of Art, National Liberal Club (London: National Liberal Club, 1997).
Michael Meadowcroft, A Guide to the Works of Art of the National Liberal Club, London (London: National Liberal Club, 2011).
Gerhart Raichle (ed.), National Liberal Club, London – Ausstellung Galerie im Margarethenhof der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Königswinter-Ittenbach, 6. September-28. Oktober 1984 (Königswinter: Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, 1984).
Robert Steven, The National Liberal Club: Politics and Persons (London: Robert Houghton, 1925).

Reform Club

The Reform Club Library: A Retrospect, 1841-1991 (London: Reform Club, 1991).
Russell Burlingham and Roger Billis (eds), Reformed Characters: The Reform Club in History and Literature, an Anthology with Commentary (London: Reform Club, 2005).
Louis Fagan, The Reform Club: Its Founders and Architect (London: B. Quaritch, 1887).
Craig McDonald Marshall, Alex Fulluck and Amy Crangle, Recipes from the Reform: A Selection of Recipes from the Reform Club, London (London: Reform Club, 2014).
J. Mordaunt Crook, The Reform Club (London: Reform Club, 1973).
Jef Nicholas, Behind the Streets of Adelaide, Volume I: Born of Reform – A Pantheon of Dissent (Adelaide: Torrens Press, 2016).
_________, Behind the Streets of Adelaide, Volume II: From Rundle to Morphett (Adelaide: Torrens Press, 2016).
_________, Behind the Streets of Adelaide, Volume III: From Wellington to Mann (Adelaide: Torrens Press, 2016).
Michael Sharpe, The Political Committee of the Reform Club (London: Reform Club, 1996).
Peter Urbach, The Reform Club: Some Twentieth Century Members – A Photographic Collection (London: Reform Club, 1999).
Charles W. Vincent (ed.), Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club (London: Reform Club, 1883).
- __________________, Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club: Second Edition (London: Reform Club, 1894).
George Woodbridge, The Reform Club, 1836-1978: A History from the Club’s Records (New York: Clearwater, 1978).

General club histories

Anonymous, Your Club (London: Whitbread, 1950).
Anonymous [Charles Marsh and Colin Mackenzie], The Clubs of London, 2 vols (London: H. Colburn, 1828).
Anonymous, Echoes from the Clubs: A Record of Political Topics and Social Amenities – Volume I, May-October, 1867 (London: Privately published, 1867).
_________, Echoes from the Clubs: A Record of Political Topics and Social Amenities – Volume II, November 1867-April 1868 (London: Privately published, 1868).
_________, Echoes from the Clubs: A Record of Political Topics and Social Amenities – Volume III, May-December 1868 (London: Privately published, 1868).
Robert J. Allen, The Clubs of Augustan London (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1933).
David Ashton and Paul Reid, Ashton & Reid on Clubs and Associations, 2nd edition (London: LexisNexis, 2011). – A 3rd edition is due out in January 2020.
P. Gordon Bamber (ed.), Clubland (London: W. Speaight and Sons, 1910).
Barbara Black, A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012).
Valérie Capdeville, L’Age d’Or des Clubs Londiniens (1730-1784) (Paris: Editions Champion, 2008).
Valérie Capdeville and Eric Francalanza (eds), La sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au Siècle des Lumières : l’émergence d’un nouveau modèle de société Tome III: Les Espaces de sociabilité (Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit, 2014).
Valérie Capdeville and Alain Kerhervé (eds), British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019).
Peter Clark, British Clubs and Societies, 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Bernard Darwin, British Clubs (London: Collins, 1943).
David Doughan and Peter Gordon, Women, Clubs and Associations in Britain (London: Routledge, 2006).
T. H. S. Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (London: T.F. Unwin, 1914).
W. Fraser Rae, ‘Political Clubs and Party Organisation’, Nineteenth Century, 3 (1878), pp. 908-32.
Tom Girtin, The Abominable Clubman (London: Hutchinson, 1962).
Charles Graves, Leather Armchairs: The Chivas Regal Book of London Clubs (London: Cassell, 1963).
Arthur Griffiths, Clubs and Clubmen (London: Hutchinson, 1907).
Joseph Hatton, Club-Land, London and Provincial (London: J. S. Virtue, 1890).
Stephen Hoare, Palaces of Power: The Birth and Evolution of London’s Clubland (The History Press, Stroud, 2019).
George James Ivey, The Club Directory: A General Guide or Index to the London & County Clubs, and Those of Scotland, Ireland & British Colonial Possessions, Together with the English Clubs in Europe, the United States & Elsewhere throughout the World (London: Harrison, 1879).
- ______________ Clubs of the World: A General Guide or Index to the London & County Clubs, and Those of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, United Kingdom Yacht Clubs, and British Colonial Possessions, Together with the English & Other Clubs in Europe, the United States & Elsewhere throughout the World, 2nd ed. (London: Harrison, 1880).
Diana Kendall, Members Only: Elite Clubs and the Process of Exclusion (Lanham, Maryland: Rowland & Littlefield, 2008).
Arthur F. Leach, Club Cases: Being Considerations on the Formation, Management and Dissolution of Clubs, with Especial Reference to the Liabilities and Expulsion of Members (London: Harrison, 1879).
Anthony Lejeune, The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1979).
______________, The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London (London: Stacey International, 2012) [heavily revised and rewritten version of the above].
Robin McDouall, Clubland Cooking (London: Phaidon, 1974).
Amy Milne-Smith, London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
K. Mervin More, Despatches from Ladies’ Clubland (London: privately published, 1908).
Ralph Nevill, London Clubs (London: Chatto and Windus, 1912).
Anita O’Brien and Chris Miles, A Peep into Clubland: Cartoons from Private London Clubs (London: Cartoon Museum, 2009).
David Palfreyman, London’s Pall Mall Clubs (Privately published, Oxford, 2019).
Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London: Setting Forth the Historical and Literary Associations of Those Ancient Hostelries, Together with an Account of the Most Notable Coffee-Houses, Clubs, and Pleasure Gardens of the British Metropolis (Boston: L. C. Page, 1866, 1908 ed.).
F. H. W. Sheppard (ed.), Survey of London: Volumes 29 & 30, St. James’s and Westminster, Parts 1 & 2 (London: HMSO, 1960).
Stan Shipley, Club Life and Socialism in Mid-Victorian London – History Workshop Pamphlets Number Five (London: History Workshop Journal, 1971).
Antonia Taddei, ‘London Clubs in the Late Nineteenth Century’, University of Oxford Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, No. 28 (April 1999).
Seth Alexander Thévoz, Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs (London: I. B. Tauris, 2018).
John Timbs, Clubs and Club Life in London, with Anecdotes of its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time (London: Chatto and Windus, 1866).
Richard Usborne, Clubland Heroes: A Nostalgic Study of Some Recurrent Characters in the Romantic Fiction of Dornford Yates, John Buchan and Sapper (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1953, rev. 1974).

Periodicals

The Club has a complete or substantial run of the following Liberal-themed periodicals, in bound volumes:

Liberal Magazine (1894-1950).
Liberal Year Book (1887-1939).
Lloyd George Liberal Magazine (1920-3; Harvester Press reprint from the 1970s).
Pamphlets and Leaflets of the Liberal League, AKA Liberal League Publications. (1904-1905)
Pamphlets and Leaflets of the Liberal Publication Department (1893-1929).