Liberal History & Biography

Michael Bentley, The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice, 1868–1918 (Edward Arnold, London, 1987)

David Blaazer, The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition: Socialists, Liberals and the Quest for Unity, 1884–1939 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992)

Vernon Bogdanor, Liberal Party Politics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983)

Roy Douglas, Land, People and Politics: A History of the Land Question in the United Kingdom, 1878–1952 (Allison & Busby, London, 1976)

Duncan Brack et al., Dictionary of Liberal Biography (Politico’s, London, 1998)

Duncan Brack et al., Dictionary of Liberal Quotations (Politico’s, London, 1999)

Duncan Brack et al., 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)

Duncan Bythell, The Fragility of Rural Liberalism: Parliamentary Elections and Party Politics in Richmond (North Yorkshire), 1832–1929 (University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, 2003)

Peter Clarke, Liberals and Social Democrats (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978)

Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 7th ed. (Macmillan, London, 1976)

Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900–1976 (Macmillan, London, 1976)

Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900–1984 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1984)

Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900–1988 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989)

Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900–1992 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1993)

Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900–1997 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997)

Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900–2001 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002)

Chris Cook, 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)

Roy Douglas, 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, 2004 [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 & 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)

Tudor Jones, The Revival of British Liberalism: From Grimond to Clegg (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011)

Tudor Jones, The Uneven Path of British Liberalism, 2nd ed. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2019)

David Laws, Serpents, Goats and Turkeys: A Century of Liberal–Labour Relations (Biteback Publishing, London, 2024)

R. B. McCallum, The Liberal Party from Earl Grey to Asquith (Victor Gollancz, London, 1963)

Jonathan Parry, Liberalism (Agenda Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2025)

Henry Slesser, A History of the Liberal Party (Hutchinson, London, 1945)

Alan Sykes, The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism, 1776–1988 (Longman, London, 1997)

David Torrance, A History of the Scottish Liberals and Liberal Democrats (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2022)

David Walter, The Strange Rebirth of Liberal England (Politico’s, London, 2003)

Christopher Hill, God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (Dial Press, London, 1970)

John Morley, Life of Cromwell (Macmillan, London, 1900)

Harold Hulme, The Life of Sir John Eliot, 1592–1632: Struggle for Parliamentary Freedom (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1957)

J. R. Jones, The First Whigs: The Politics of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678–1683 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1961; rev. ed. 1971)

Harold J. Laski, The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in Interpretation (Allen & Unwin, London, 1936)

Conrad Russell, The Crisis of Parliaments: English History, 1509–1660 (London, 1971)

Conrad Russell, Parliaments and English Politics, 1621–1629 (London, 1979)

Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War (London, 1990)

Conrad Russell, The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–1642 (London, 1991)

J. H. Adamson and H. F. Folland, Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times, 1613–1662 (Bodley Head, London, 1973)

C. V. Wedgwood, Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Stafford, 1593–1641: A Re-evaluation (Jonathan Cape, London, 1961)

Peter Brown, The Chathamites (Macmillan, London, 1967)

Edmund Burke (T. W. Copeland et al. (eds.)), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, 10 vols. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1958–1978), vol. 5: July 1782–June 1789; vol. 6: July 1789–December 1791

Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke (John Long Ltd, London, 1924), biographical introduction by Hannaford Bennett

E. Beresford Chancellor, The Lives of the Great Rakes, vol. 4: The Hell Fire Club – Sandwich, Dashwood, Wilkes, Churchill, etc. (Philip Allan, London, 1925)

E. Beresford Chancellor, The Lives of the Great Rakes, vol. 5: “Old Q” and Barrymore (Philip Allan, London, 1925)

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)

Roy Porter, Gibbon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1988)

Roy Hattersley, The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation (Chatto & Windus, London, 2013)

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)

Geoffrey Holmes, Politics, Religion and Society in England, 1679–1742 (Hambledon Press, London, 1986)

Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (Macmillan, London, 1957)

T. J. McCann, The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724–1750 (Sussex Record Society, Sussex, 1982–1983)

John Cannon, Lord North: The Noble in the Blue Ribbon (Historical Association, London, 1970)

Alan Valentine, Lord North, vol. 1 (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1967)

Alan Valentine, Lord North, vol. 2 (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1967)

Richard Pares, George III and the Politicians (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1953)

Stanley Ayling, The Elder Pitt, Earl of Chatham (Collins, London, 1976)

Edward Pearce, Pitt the Elder: Man of War (Bodley Head, London, 2010)

J. H. Plumb, Chatham: Brief Lives (Collins, London, 1953)

Earl of Rosebery, Chatham: His Early Life and Connections (London, 1910)

J. H. Plumb, The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675–1725 (Macmillan, London, 1967)

George Rudé, Paris and London in the 18th Century: Studies in Popular Protest (Fontana/Collins, London, 1952 [1974 ed.])

John Sainsbury, Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America, 1769–1782 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 1987)

John Heneage Jesse, George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, 2 vols. (Bentley, London, 1843)

Walter James Shelton, English Hunger and Industrial Disorders (Macmillan, London, 1973)

Ian Simpson Ross, The Life of Adam Smith, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010)

E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (Peregrine, London, 1977)

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)

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)

J. H. Plumb, Sir Robert Walpole: The King’s Minister (Cresset Press, London, 1960)

J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760–1815 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960)

Robin Reilly, Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795 (Macmillan, London, 1992)

Arthur H. Cash, John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006)

Louis Kronenberger, The Extraordinary Mr Wilkes: His Life and Times (New English Library, London, 1974)

Raymond Postgate, The Devil Wilkes (Dennis Dobson, London, 1930; rev. ed. 1956)

George Rudé, Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study of 1763–1774 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1962)

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)

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 (rev. C. H. Stuart), The Whig Supremacy, 1714–1760 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939; rev. ed. 1962)

John Addy, Parliamentary Elections and Reform, 1807–1832 (Longmans, London, 1961)

Philip Ziegler, Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth (Collins, London, 1965)

Asa Briggs, The Age of Improvement (Longman, London, 1959)

Victor Bonham-Carter, In a Liberal Tradition (Constable, London, 1960)

C. B. Macpherson, Burke (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980)

Frank O’Gorman, Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy (Allen & 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 University Press, Cambridge, 1973)

Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, 2 vols. (Chapman & Hall, London, 1892)

John W. Derry, Castlereagh (Allen Lane, London, 1976)

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)

Brian Connell, Portrait of a Whig Peer: Compiled from the Papers of the Second Viscount Palmerston, 1739–1802 (André Deutsch, London, 1957)

John Evans, The Gentleman Usher: The Life and Times of George Dempster, 1732–1818 (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2005)

Stanley Ayling, Fox (John Murray, London, 1991)

John W. Derry, Charles James Fox (B. T. Batsford, London, 1972)

J. L. Hammond, Charles James Fox: A Political Study (London, 1903)

Christopher Hobhouse, Fox (John Murray, London, 1964)

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)

David Powell, Charles James Fox: Man of the People (Hutchinson, London, 1989)

Rosalie Glynn Grylls, William Godwin and His World (Odhams Press Ltd, London, 1953)

Betty Kemp, Sir Francis Dashwood: An Eighteenth-Century Independent (Macmillan, London, 1967)

Lord David Cecil, A Portrait of Charles Lamb (Constable, London, 1978)

Joyce Marlow, The Peterloo Massacre (Panther, London, 1971)

Leslie Mitchell, The Whig World, 1760–1837 (Hambledon Continuum, London, 2005)

Bertram Newman, Lord Melbourne (Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1930)

Frank O’Gorman, The Emergence of the British Two-Party System, 1760–1832 (Edward Arnold, London, 1982)

Frank O’Gorman, Voters, Patrons and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England, 1734–1832 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989)

E. A. Smith, Whig Principles and Party Politics (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1975)

Jenny Handley and Hazel Lake, Progress of Persuasion: The Life of William Smith, 1756–1835 (Privately printed, London, 2007)

Stephen Tomkins, William Wilberforce: A Biography (Lion, Oxford, 2007)

Stephen Deuchar, Samuel Whitbread II (1764–1815) and British Art (Whitbread & Co. plc, London, 1984)

E. Jones Parry (ed.), Correspondence of Lord Aberdeen and Princess Lieven, 2 vols. (Camden Society, 3rd ser., vols. 60 and 62, London, 1938)

Rosemary Ashton, 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London (Chatto & Windus, London, 2006)

Walter Bagehot, Essays on Parliamentary Reform (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, 1883)

Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1905)

Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (Collins, London, 1966), introduction by R. H. S. Crossman; follows the text of the 1915 Collected Works

Helen Bosanquet, Free Trade and Peace in the Nineteenth Century (Det Norske Nobelinstitutt, Kristiania, 1924)

Robert Stewart, Henry Brougham, 1778–1868: His Public Career (Bodley Head, London, 1985)

Lewis Apjohn, Life of John Bright (Walter Scott, London, n.d.)

Bill Cash, John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator (I. B. Tauris, London, 2012)

J. Travis Mills, John Bright and the Quakers, 2 vols. (Methuen & Co., London, 1935)

Keith Robbins, John Bright (Routledge & 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)

Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by John Bright MP, 2nd ed. reprint (Macmillan & Co., London, 1903)

The Rt Hon. John Bright M.P.: Cartoons from the Collection “Mr Punch” (Punch Office, London, 1878)

Michael Brock, The Great Reform Act (Hutchinson, London, 1973)

J. C. Buckmaster, A Village Politician: The Life Story of John Buckley (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1897)

Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus / Lectures on Heroes / Chartism / Past and Present (Chapman & Hall, London, 1894)

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, The Political Writings of Richard Cobden (Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1886)

Nicholas C. Edsall, Richard Cobden: Independent Radical (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986)

Wendy 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; new ed. Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1968)

Anthony Howe (ed.), The Letters of Richard Cobden, vol. 1: 1815–1847 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008)

Donald Read, Cobden and Bright: A Victorian Political Partnership (London, 1967)

John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden, vol. 1 (Chapman & Hall, London, 1881)

John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden, 2 vols. (Macmillan & Co., London, 1908)

John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1920)

Miles Taylor (ed.), The European Diaries of Richard Cobden (Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1994)

Joseph Coohill, Ideas of the Liberal Party: Perceptions, Agendas and Liberal Politics in the House of Commons, 1832–1852 (Wiley-Blackwell, Edinburgh, 2012)

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)

Roger Fulford, The Greville Memoirs (B. T. Batsford, London, 1963)

Edward Pearce, The Diaries of Charles Greville (Pimlico, London, 2005)

Rees Howell Gronow, The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow (John C. Nimmo, London, 1890)

H. J. Hanham, Elections and Party Management: Politics in the Time of Disraeli and Gladstone (Longman, London, 1959)

Brian Harrison, Drink and the Victorians: The Temperance Question in England, 1815–1972 (Faber & Faber, London, 1971)

Angus Hawkins, Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain, 1855–1859 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1987)

Olive Henderson, A Liberal State at War: English Politics and Economics During the Crimean War (Macmillan, London, 1967)

Romney Sedgwick, Lord Hervey’s Memoirs, rev. ed. (B. T. Batsford, London, 1963)

Francis W. Hirst, Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School (Harper & Brothers, London, 1903)

Patricia Hollis, Pressure from Without (Edward Arnold, London, 1974)

Richard Huzzey, Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012)

T. A. Jenkins, The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830–1886 (Macmillan, London, 1994)

Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, Kentish Family (Methuen, London, 1960)

Abraham D. Kriegel (ed.), The Holland House Diaries, 1831–1840 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977)

John Clive, Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (London, 1975)

David Cecil, The Young Melbourne (Constable, London, 1939)

David Cecil, Lord M. (Constable, London, 1954)

David Cecil, Melbourne (Constable, London, 1954)

Bertram Newman, Lord Melbourne (Macmillan & Co., London, 1930)

Philip Ziegler, Melbourne: A Life of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Collins, London, 1978)

Nicholas Capaldi, John Stuart Mill: A Biography (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004)

Richard Reeves, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, London, 2007)

R. H. Mottram, Buxton the Liberator (Hutchinson & Co., London, n.d.)

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)

David Brown, Palmerston: A Biography (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2010)

James Chambers, Palmerston: The People’s Darling (John Murray, London, 2004)

Philip Guedalla, Palmerston (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1926; 1937 ed.)

Tresham Lever (ed.), The Letters of Lady Palmerston (London, 1957)

Marquess of Lorne, Viscount Palmerston, K.G. (Nonsuch, London, 2007 [first pub. 1892])

Nigel Scotland, “Good and Proper Men”: Lord Palmerston and the Bench of Bishops (James Clarke, Cambridge, 2000)

Jonathan Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993)

Jonathan Parry, The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830–1886 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)

Norman Gash, Peel (Longman, London, 1975)

Douglas Hurd, Robert Peel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007)

T. A. Jenkins, Sir Robert Peel (Macmillan, London, 1999)

K. H. Randell, Politics and the People, 1835–1850 (Collins, London, 1972)

Keith Robbins, Politicians, Diplomacy and War in Modern British History (Hambledon Press, London, 1994)

John Prest, Lord John Russell (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 1972)

Spencer Walpole, Lord John Russell, 2 vols. (Longmans, London, 1889)

Aubrey Wyatt Tilby, Lord John Russell: A Study in Civil and Religious Liberty (Cassell, London, 1930)

Caroline Shenton, The Day Parliament Burned Down (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012)

Donald Southgate, The Most English Minister: The Policies and Politics of Palmerston (London, 1966)

Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe, Victorian Radicals and Italian Democrats (Royal Historical Society / Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2014)

John Vincent, The Formation of the British Liberal Party, 1857–1868 (Constable, London, 1966)

John Vincent, 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 & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2011)

William White, The Inner Life of the House of Commons, 2 vols., 3rd ed. (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 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)

Lord Acton, The History of Freedom and Other Essays (Macmillan, London, 1907)

David Mathew, Acton: The Formative Years (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1946)

Joseph Arch; John Gerard O’Leary (ed.), The Autobiography of Joseph Arch (MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1966)

Philip Noel-Baker and Elizabeth Balmer Baker, J. Allen Baker: A Memoir (Swarthmore Press, London, 1927)

G. Armitage-Smith, The Free Trade Movement and Its Results (Blackie & Son, London, 1898)

David McKie, Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scandal (Atlantic Books, London, 2005)

Henry F. Bernard, Redistribution by Proportional Representation (Wyman & Sons, London, 1884)

Michael Bentley, Politics Without Democracy, 1815–1914 (Fontana, London, 1984)

Michael Bentley, The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice, 1868–1918 (Michael Joseph, London, 1987)

Augustine Birrell, In the Name of the Bodleian – And Other Essays (Elliot Stock, London, 1906)

Charles Bradlaugh, Speeches by Charles Bradlaugh (Freethought Publishing Company, London, 1890)

Centenary Committee, Champion of Liberty: Charles Bradlaugh (C. A. Watts & Co. Ltd, London, 1934)

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)

Ian Bradley, The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Literature (Faber & Faber, London, 1980)

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, The Hindrances to Good Citizenship (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1909)

James Bryce, Modern Democracies (Macmillan & Co., London, 1921)

H. A. L. Fisher, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, 2 vols. (London, 1927)

Joseph Chamberlain (ed.), The Radical Programme (Chapman & Hall, London, 1885)

Harry Browne, Joseph Chamberlain: Radical and Imperialist (Longman, London, 1974)

J. L. Garvin and Julian Amery, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, vol. 1: 1836–1885 (Macmillan, London, 1935)

J. L. Garvin and Julian Amery, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, vol. 5 (Macmillan, London, 1969)

J. L. Garvin and Julian Amery, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, vol. 6 (Macmillan, London, 1969)

Denis Judd, Radical Joe: A Life of Joseph Chamberlain (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977)

Denis Judd, Radical Joe: A Life of Joseph Chamberlain (University of Wales Press, Aberystwyth, 1993)

Peter Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994)

Enoch Powell, Joseph Chamberlain (Michael Joseph, London, 1977)

John Richard Hodges, John Corbett, 1817–1901: The Worcestershire Salt King, vol. 1 (privately printed, Droitwich, 2010)

Major Jones, Life and Speeches of Joseph Cowen MP (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1885)

Bernard Holland, Life of the Duke of Devonshire, 2 vols. (London, 1911)

Bernard Holland, Life of the Eighth Duke of Devonshire, 1833–1908, 2 vols. (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, Madison, NJ, 1994)

Sir Charles Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain (Macmillan & Co., London, 1890)

Roy Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy (Collins, London, 1958; rev. ed. 1965)

James Dixon, Out of Birmingham: George Dixon (1820–98), “Father of Free Education” (Brewin Books, Studley, 2013)

Reginald, Viscount Esher, Incidents in My Life (John Murray, London, 1923)

Robert Farquharson, In and Out of Parliament: Reminiscences of a Varied Life (Williams & Norgate, London, 1911)

Henry Fawcett, Free Trade and Protection (Macmillan & Co., London, 1881)

Henry Fawcett, Manual of Political Economy (Macmillan & Co., London, 1876)

Henry Fawcett, Speeches on Some Current Political Questions (Macmillan & Co., London, 1873)

Leslie Stephen, Life of Henry Fawcett (Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1885)

Tessa Blackstone, The Fight for Votes for Women: Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Biteback Publishing, London, 2024)

E. J. Feuchtwanger, Democracy and Empire: Britain, 1865–1914 (Edward Arnold, London, 1985)

Thomas Wemyss Reid, Life of the Rt Hon. W. E. Forster (London, 1888; repr. Augustus M. Kelley, New York, 1970)

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 (Royal Historical Society / Camden New Series, London, 1989)

Thomas Spinner, George Joachim Goschen: The Transformation of a Victorian Liberal (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973)

Earl Grey (3rd), Parliamentary Government Considered with Reference to Reform (John Murray, London, 1864)

Elaine Hadley, Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2010)

Elie Halévy (trans. E. I. Watkin), England in 1815: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1815–1830, vol. 1 (Ernest Benn, London, 1949; first published in French, 1913)

Elie Halévy, The Liberal Awakening: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1815–1830, vol. 2 (Ernest Benn, London, 1949; first published in French, 1923)

Elie Halévy, The Triumph of Reform: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1830–1841, vol. 3 (Ernest Benn, London, 1950; first published in French, 1923)

Elie Halévy, Victorian Years, Incorporating “The Age of Peel and Cobden”: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1841–1895, vol. 4 (Ernest Benn, London, 1951; first published in French, 1948)

Elie Halévy, Imperialism and the Rise of Labour: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1895–1905, vol. 5 (Ernest Benn, London, 1951; first published in French, 1926)

Elie Halévy, The Rule of Democracy: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1905–1914, vol. 6, bk. 1 (Ernest Benn, London, 1952; first published in French, 1932)

Elie Halévy, The Rule of Democracy: Halévy’s History of the English People, 1905–1914, vol. 6, bk. 2 (Ernest Benn, London, 1952; first published in French, 1932)

H. J. Hanham, Elections and Party Management: Politics in the Time of Disraeli and Gladstone (Longmans, London, 1959)

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)

S. Hutchinson Harris, Auberon Herbert: Crusader for Liberty (Williams & Norgate, London, 1943)

George Jacob Holyoake, Sixty Years of an Agitator’s Life, 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892)

Edwin Jaggard (ed.), Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian MP (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Exeter, 1999)

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Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (eds), The Diary of Beatrice Webb, Volume One, 1873–1892: Glitter Around and Darkness Within (Virago Press, London, 1986)

Beatrice Webb, The Diaries of Beatrice Webb (Northeastern University Press, Boston, 2001)

Carole Seymour-Jones, Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict (Pandora, London, 1993)

Lady Cynthia Asquith, Diaries 1915–18 (Hutchinson, London, 1968)

H. H. Asquith, The Paisley Policy (Cassell, London, 1920)

H. H. Asquith, The Genesis of the War (Cassell, London, 1923)

H. H. Asquith, Studies and Sketches (Hutchinson, London, 1924)

H. H. Asquith [as the Earl of Oxford and Asquith], Fifty Years of Parliament, 2 vols. (Cassell, London, 1926)

H. H. Asquith [as the Earl of Oxford and Asquith], Speeches (Hutchinson, London, 1927)

H. H. Asquith [as the Earl of Oxford and Asquith], Memories and Reflections, 2 vols. (Cassell, London, 1928)

Herbert Asquith, Moments of Memory: Recollections & Impressions (Hutchinson, London, 1937)

Margot Asquith, The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, 2 vols. (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1920–22)

Margot Asquith, Places and Persons (London, 1925)

Margot Asquith [as the Countess of Oxford and Asquith], Lay Sermons (London, 1925)

Margot Asquith [as the Countess of Oxford and Asquith], More Memories (London, 1933)

Margot Asquith [as the Countess of Oxford and Asquith], Myself When Young (London, 1938)

Margot Asquith [as the Countess of Oxford and Asquith], 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)

Michael and Eleanor Brock (eds), Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary, 1914–1916: The View from Downing Street (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014)

James Cameron, 1916 – The Year of Decision (Olbourne, London, 1962)

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 & Nicolson, 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)

Desmond McCarthy (ed.), 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)

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)

Lord Beaverbrook, Men and Power, 1917–1918 (Hutchinson, London, 1956)

Lord Beaverbrook, 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)

John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1977)

John Campbell, If Love Were All: The Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George (London, 2006)

Tom Clarke, My Lloyd George Diary (Methuen, London, 1939)

Damian Collins, Rivals Win the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost His Government (Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2024)

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)

Tom Cullen, Maundy Gregory: Surveyor of Honours (The Bodley Head, London, 1974)

W. Watkin Davies, Lloyd George, 1863–1914 (Constable, London, 1939)

Rev. J. Trefor Davies, David Lloyd George: The Story of His Life (W. M. Evans, Carmarthen, 1910)

E. J. Dillon, The Peace Conference (Hutchinson & Co., London, n.d.)

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, David Lloyd George: The Man and the Statesman, 2 vols. (Waverley, London, 1929)

Lady Olwyn Carey Evans (as told to Mary Garner), Lloyd George Was My Father (Gomer Press, Dyfed, 1985)

David French, The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916–1918 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995)

David Lloyd George, Better Times: The Speeches of David Lloyd George (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910)

David Lloyd George, Through Terror to Triumph (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1915)

David Lloyd George, The Great Crusade (George H. Doran Company, New York, 1918)

David Lloyd George, Is It Peace? (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1923)

David Lloyd George, Where Are We Going? (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1923)

David Lloyd George, Coal and Power (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1924)

David Lloyd George, Slings and Arrows (Cassell, London, 1929)

David Lloyd George, The Truth About Reparations and War Debts (Heinemann, London, 1932)

David Lloyd George, War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, 6 vols. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1933–36)

David Lloyd George, 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 (Allen & Unwin, London, 1948)

Richard Lloyd George, 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 & Faber, London, 1976)

W. R. P. George, Lloyd George: Backbencher (Gomer Press, Dyfed, 1983)

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)

Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert, David Lloyd George: A Political Life – Organizer of Victory, 1912–16 (B. T. Batsford, London, 1992)

George Goldberg, The Peace to End Peace: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Pitman Publishing, London, 1970)

John Grigg, Lloyd George, Vol. I–IV (Methuen / Allen Lane, 1973–2002)

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, London, 2010)

Edward Morgan Humphreys, David Lloyd George (Llyfrau’r Dryw, Landybie, 1943)

J. Graham Jones, Lloyd George and Welsh Liberalism (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2010)

Thomas Jones, Lloyd George (Oxford University Press, London, 1951)

Michael Kinnear, The Fall of Lloyd George: The Political Crisis of 1922 (University of Toronto Press, 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, 2001)

Ruth Longford, Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More Than a Mistress (Greenwing, 1996)

Low, Lloyd George and Co. (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1921)

Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (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)

John Saxon Mills, Lloyd George: War Minister (Cassell, London, 1924)

Kenneth O. Morgan, The Age of Lloyd George (HarperCollins, 1971)

Kenneth O. Morgan, Lloyd George (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976)

Kenneth O. Morgan, Consensus and Disunity: Lloyd George’s Coalition Government, 1918–22 (Oxford University Press, 1980)

Kenneth O. Morgan, David Lloyd George, 1863–1945 (University of Wales Press, 1981)

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 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980)

Richard Rhys O’Brien, The Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George (Y Lolfa, 2022)

Richard Rhys O’Brien, The Woman Who Helped Win the War (Y Lolfa, 2025)

Frank Owen, Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times (Hutchinson, London, 1954)

Emyr Price, Lloyd George: Welsh Radicals (University of Wales Press, 2005)

Martin Pugh, Lloyd George (Longman, 1988)

Hugh Purcell, Lloyd George (Oxford University Press, 2006)

G. E. Raine, The Real Lloyd George (London, 1913)

G. E. Raine, Lloyd George and the Land (London, 1914)

J. M. Robertson, Lloyd George and Liberalism (Chapman & Dodd, London, 1923)

Peter Rowland, Lloyd George (Barrie & Jenkins, 1975)

Stella Rudman, Lloyd George and the Appeasement of Germany, 1919–1945 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)

Alan Sharp, David Lloyd George (Haus Publishing, 2008)

A. J. Sylvester, The Real Lloyd George (Cassell, 1947)

A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (Hamish Hamilton, 1971)

A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson (Hutchinson, 1971)

Malcolm Thomson, Lloyd George – The Official Biography (Oxford University Press, 1948)

John Turner, Lloyd George’s Secretariat (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

Gordon West, Lloyd George’s Last Fight (Alston Rivers, London, 1930)

Chris Wrigley, Lloyd George (Blackwell, 1992)

Chris Wrigley, David Lloyd George and the British Labour Movement (1976)

Chris Wrigley, Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour (1990)

David R. Woodward, Lloyd George and the Generals (University of Delaware Press, 1983)

General Election Literature, November 15th 1922 (privately bound)

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)

Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Volume II: Young Statesman, 1901–1914 (Heinemann, London, 1968)

Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VIII: Never Despair, 1945–1965 (Heinemann, London, 1988)

Churchill as a Liberal

Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (World Books, London, 1965)

Warren Dockter, Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East (I. B. Tauris, London, 2015)

One-volume biographies

Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001)

Sonia Purnell, First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill (Aurum, London, 2015)

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)

Hugh Martin, Battle: The Life Story of Winston S. Churchill (Victor Gollancz, London, 1940)

Henry Pelling, Churchill (Batsford, London, 1974)

Norman Rose, Churchill: An Unruly Life (Simon & Schuster, 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, Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 vols. (Macmillan, London, 1906); one-volume reprint (Odhams, London, 1950)

Winston S. Churchill, The People’s Rights (Jonathan Cape, London, 1909; reprint 1973)

Winston S. Churchill, Liberalism and the Social Problem (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910)

Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis, 4 vols. (Odhams, London, 1948 edition; first published 1921–26)

Winston S. Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, 4 vols. (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1933–38)

Winston S. Churchill, Great Contemporaries (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1937)

Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, 6 vols. (Cassell, London, 1948–53)

Winston S. Churchill, Frederick Woods (ed.), Winston Churchill: War Correspondent (Brassey’s, London, 1992)

Charles Eade (ed.), Secret Session Speeches (Cassell, London, 1946)

Annals of the Lothian Foundation, includes The Lionel Curtis–Philip Kerr (Lord Lothian) Correspondence 1909–1940 (Lothian Foundation, London, 1991)

Essays in Liberalism: Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 (W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, Glasgow, 1922)

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.]

List of Chief Organisations and Correspondents of the Liberal Party (The Liberal Campaign Department, London, 1929)

The Land and the Nation: Rural Report of the Liberal Land Committee 1923–25 (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925)

Deryck Abel, A History of British Tariffs 1923–1942 (Heath Cranton Limited, London, 1945)

Richard Acland, Unser Kampf (Our Struggle) (Penguin, London, 1940)

Richard Acland, The Forward March (Allen & Unwin, London, 1941)

Richard Acland, What Will It Be Like in the New Britain? (Victor Gollancz, London, 1942)

Richard Acland, 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)

Christopher Addison, 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)

John Aye, Humour of Parliament and Parliamentary Elections (The Universal Press, London, 1931)

Andrea Bosco, Federal Union and the Origins of the “Churchill Proposal”: The Federalist Debate in the United Kingdom from Munich to the Fall of France, 1938–1940 (Lothian Foundation Press, London, 1992)

Alfred Barratt Brown, Great Democrats (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1934)

Ernest J. P. Benn, Honesty Doubt: Being a Collection of Papers on the Price of Modern Politics (Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1932)

Ernest J. P. Benn, Happier Days: Recollections and Reflections (Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1949)

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 William Beveridge et al., Tariffs: The Case Examined (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1932)

Sir William Beveridge, Full Employment in a Free Society (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1945, 3rd impression)

Sir William Beveridge, Full Employment in a Free Society (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1953, 4th impression with new preface)

Sir William Beveridge, The Pillars of Security (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1942)

Sir William Beveridge, Planning Under Socialism and Other Addresses (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1936)

Sir William Beveridge, The Price of Peace (Pilot Press, London, 1945)

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)

Karel Williams and John Williams, A Beveridge Reader (Allen & Unwin, London, 1987)

Frank Birch, This Freedom Is Ours (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1937)

John Chandos, Norman Birkett: Uncommon Advocate (Mayflower Publishing, London, 1963)

Harford 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)

David Cannadine, In Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain (Penguin Books, London, 2003)

Mark Pottle and Mark Bonham Carter (eds), Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1904–1914 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1996)

Mark Pottle (ed.), Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1914–1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998)

Mark Pottle (ed.), Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1945–1969 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000)

Ivor Brown, Life Within Reason (Liberal Book Club/Nicholson & Watson, London, 1939)

J. R. M. Butler, Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr), 1882–1940 (St Martin’s Press, New York, 1960)

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.

Cornelia Cook, Joyce Cary: Liberal Principles (Vision, London, 1981)

Catherine Ann Cline, Recruits to Labour: The British Labour Party, 1924–1931 (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 1963)

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)

Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour 1920–1924 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1971)

Lord Crewe, Liberal Plan for Peace (Victor Gollancz, London, 1944)

Lionel Curtis, Letters to the People of India on Responsible Government (Macmillan and Co., Ltd, London, 1918)

George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (Heron Books, London, 1935 [1966 ed.])

Ben Pimlott (ed.), The Political Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1918–40, 1945–60 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987)

Mrs James de Rothschild, Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor (Collins, London, 1979)

Nicholas Davenport, Memoirs of a City Radical (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1974, proof copy)

Ivor R. M. Davies, Trial by Ballot (Christopher Johnson, London, 1950)

Elliott Dodds, Is Liberalism Dead? A Restatement and an Appeal (London, 1919)

Elliott Dodds, Let’s Try Liberalism (Simpkin Marshall, London, 1944)

Elliott Dodds, The Defence of Man (Herbert Joseph, London, 1946)

Desmond Banks and Donald Wade, The Political Insight of Elliott Dodds (London, 1977)

David Dutton, Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics (Ross Anderson Publications, Bolton, 1985)

Sir Charles Petrie, The Life and Letters of the Right Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain, vol. 2 (Cassell and Company Ltd, London, 1940)

David Dutton, Liberals in Schism: A History of the National Liberal Party (I.B. Tauris, London, 2007)

William Worthington Eskrick, Trifles in Verse (Arthur H. Stockwell, London, n.d.). Dedicated to members of the National Liberal Club

Charles Fenby, The Other Oxford: The Life and Times of Frank Gray and His Father (Lund Humphries, London, 1970)

H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe, 3 vols. (London, 1935)

H. A. L. Fisher, An Unfinished Autobiography (London, 1941)

Dingle Foot, British Political Crises (London, 1976)

Isaac Foot, Oliver Cromwell and Abraham Lincoln: A Comparison (London, 1944)

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 edition.

Philip Guedalla, The Liberators (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1942)

Sir Percy Harris, Forty Years In and Out of Parliament (Andrew Melrose, London, 1950)

Stephen Hart, James Chuter Ede: Humane Reformer and Politician: Liberal and Labour Traditions (Pen and Sword History, Barnsley, 2021)

Aubrey Herbert, The Conduct and Management of Parliamentary Elections: A Practical Manual by William Woodings (Liberal Publications Department, London, 1949, 10th ed.)

Janet Hilderley, Harry Worsfold (1839–1939): The Life and Times of a Gentleman of Surrey (The Alpha Press, Eastbourne, 2015)

Francis W. Hirst, Safeguarding and Protection (Cobden Club, London, 1926)

Francis W. Hirst, Principles of Prosperity (Hollis and Carter, London, 1944)

Francis W. Hirst, In the Golden Days (Frederick Muller Ltd, London, 1947)

Tom Horabin, Politics Made Plain: What the Next General Election Will Really Be About (Penguin, London, 1944)

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)

J. H. Humphreys, Practical Aspects of Electoral Reform: A Study of the General Election, 1922 (P. S. King and Son Ltd, London, 1923)

Joseph Hyder, The Case for Land Nationalisation (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London, 1914)

William Ivor Jennings, Parliamentary Reform (Victor Gollancz, London, 1934)

Kevin Jefferys, The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940–1945 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995)

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, 1920)

John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-Faire (Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1926)

John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Persuasion (Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, 1933)

John Maynard Keynes, How to Pay for the War (Macmillan and Co., London, 1940)

Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (Random House, New York, 2020)

Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (William Collins, London, 2015)

Dudley Dillard, The Economics of J. M. Keynes: The Theory of Monetary Economy (Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd, London, 1948)

Polly Hill and Richard Keynes (eds), Lydia and Maynard: Letters Between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes (André Deutsch, London, 1989)

Robert Lekachman, The Age of Keynes (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, 1967)

Donald Moggridge (ed.), The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. VII: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, Cambridge, 1978). PB edition.

Donald Moggridge, Keynes on the Wireless (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2010)

Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Volume I: Hopes Betrayed, 1883–1920 (Macmillan, London, 1983)

Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Volume II: The Economist as Saviour, 1921–1936 (Macmillan, London, 1992)

Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Volume III: Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (Macmillan, London, 2000)

Robert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the Master (Allen Lane, London, 2009)

W. T. Layton, The Relations of Capital and Labour (Collins Clear-Type Press, London, n.d.)

L. Macaulay, The Decadence (Watts & Co., London, 1929)

Gerald Macmillan, Honours for Sale: The Strange Story of Maundy Gregory (Richards Press, London, 1954)

Elizabeth Craufurd McCracken, Memoirs (n.p., n.p., 1920)

A. W. Madsen, Why the German Republic Fell and Other Studies of the Causes and Consequences of Economic Inequality (The Hogarth Press, London, 1941)

Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander, We Were Not All Wrong (Victor Gollancz, London, 1941). Also 1944, 3rd ed.

Geoffrey Le M. Mander et al., The Next Five Years: An Essay in Political Agreement (Macmillan and Co. Ltd, London, 1935)

David Marquand, Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2009)

Ramsay Muir, Peers & Bureaucrats: Two Problems of English Government (Constable, London, 1910)

Ramsay Muir, Nationalism and Internationalism: The Culmination of Modern History (Constable and Company, London, 1916)

Ramsay Muir, A Better Britain in a Better World (King and Staples, London, 1941)

Ramsay Muir, Liberalism and Industry: Towards a Better Social Order (Constable, London, 1920)

Ramsay Muir, Essays in Liberalism: Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 (Collins, London, 1922)

Ramsay Muir, Politics and Progress: A Survey of the Problems of Today (Methuen, London, 1923)

Ramsay Muir, British History: Part II (George Philip & Son, London, 1931)

Ramsay Muir, The Political Consequences of the Great War (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1931)

Ramsay Muir, How Britain Is Governed (Constable & Co., London, 1933)

Ramsay Muir, A Brief History of Our Own Times (London, 1934)

Ramsay Muir, The Record of the National Government (Allen & Unwin, London, 1936)

Ramsay Muir, Future for Democracy (Liberal Book Club/Nicholson & Watson, London, 1939)

Ramsay Muir, 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)

Harford Montgomery Hyde, Strong for Service: The Life of Lord Nathan of Churt (W. H. Allen, London, 1968)

Gron Williams, Firebrand: The Frank Owen Story (Square One Publications, Worcester, 1993)

Judy Pollard Smith, Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris (Abbott Press, Bloomington, IN, 2014)

Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Reading (Guild Books, London, 1920 [1953 ed.])

Owen Chadwick, Michael Ramsey: A Life (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990)

J. M. Robertson, Free Trade (J. M. Dent, London, 1919)

J. M. Robertson, The Meaning of Liberalism (Methuen, London, 1912; rev. 1925 ed.). Introduction by H. H. Asquith.

J. M. Robertson, Electoral Justice: A Survey of the Theory and Practice of Political Representation (British Periodicals Ltd, London, 1931)

Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition (Macmillan, London, 1933; 1946 ed.)

J. F. S. Ross, Parliamentary Representation (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1943; 2nd ed., 1944)

Charles Royle, Memoirs (Cresset Press, London, 1945)

Herbert Samuel, Liberalism: An Attempt to State the Principles and Proposals of Contemporary Liberalism in England (Grant Richards, London, 1902)

John Bowle, Viscount Samuel: A Biography (Victor Gollancz, London, 1957)

Bernard Wasserstein, Herbert Samuel: A Political Life (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992)

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Nick Silver and Zoe Hodge, A Guide to New Political Movements (Radix, London, 2019)

Trevor Smith, Workhouse to Westminster (Caper Press, London, 2018)

Barry Standen, A Cog in the Wheel: Reminiscences of a Liberal Foot Soldier (n.p., 2025)

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)

Jenny Tonge, Pit Banks to Red Benches (Louisa Publishing, n.p., 2021)

Ann Treneman, Dave & Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon (Robson, London, 2011)

Ann Treneman, 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)

Nick Tyrone, 2017: A Look at the Year Ahead (Radix, 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, Liberal Language: Speeches and Essays, 1998–2003 (Bagehot, London, 2003)

Graham Watson, EU’ve Got Mail! Liberal Letters from the European Parliament (Bagehot, London, 2004)

Graham Watson, Building a Liberal Europe: The ALDE Project (John Harper, London, 2010)

Graham Watson, Continental Drift: Liberal Letters from the European Parliament, 2009–2014 (Bagehot, London, 2014)

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, First Edition (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)

Rob Wilson, The Eye of the Storm: The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal (Biteback, London, 2014)

Joe Zammit-Lucia, Backlash: Saving Globalisation From Itself (Radix, London, 2018). Foreword by Miriam González Durántez

W. S. Armour, Armour of Ballymoney (Duckworth, London, 1934)

Eugenio F. Biagini, British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876–1906 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)

Terence Bowman, People’s Champion: The Life of Alexander Bowman, Pioneer of Labour Politics in Ireland (Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 1997)

L. W. Brady, T. P. O’Connor and the Liverpool Irish (Royal Historical Society, London, 1983)

Roger Courtney, Dissenting Voices: Rediscovering the Irish Progressive Presbyterian Tradition (Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2013)

Sir Charles Gavin Duffy, A Bird’s-Eye View of Irish History (James Duffy and Co., Dublin, 1882)

Brian Eggins, History and Hope: The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (The History Press Ireland, Dublin, 2016)

Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results, 1921–1972 (Political Reference Publications, Chichester, 1973)

Brian Farrell (ed.), The Irish Parliamentary Tradition (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1973)

R. F. Foster, Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and British History (Allen Lane, London, 1993)

Gordon Gillespie, Albert H. McElroy: The Radical Minister, 1915–1975 (Albert McElroy Memorial Fund, Dunmurry, 1985)

Jim Hendron, The Militant Moderates: A Memoir of the Origins and Development of the Alliance Party, 1969–2015 (privately printed, Belfast, 2015)

Michael Hurst, Parnell and Irish Nationalism (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1968)

Ruth Illingworth, Sheelagh Murnaghan, 1924–1993: Stormont’s Only Liberal MP (Ulster Historical Foundation, n.p., 2019)

Patricia Jalland, The Liberals and Ireland: The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914 (St Martin’s Press, New York, 1980)

Peter Jupp, British and Irish Elections, 1784–1831 (David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973)

F. S. L. Lyons, The Fall of Parnell, 1890–91 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1960)

Angus Macintyre, Liberator: Daniel O’Connell and the Irish Party, 1830–1847 (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1965)

James Creed Meredith, Proportional Representation in Ireland (Edward Ponsonby, Dublin, 1913)

James H. Murphy, Ireland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868–86 (University College Dublin Press, Dublin, 2014)

Leon O’Broin, The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland (Chatto & Windus, London, 1969)

T. P. O’Connor, Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian (Ernest Benn, London, 1929), 2 vols.

Alan O’Day, Charles Stewart Parnell (University College Dublin Press, Dublin, 2012)

Edward Pearce, Lines of Least Resistance: The Lords, the Tories and Ireland, 1886–1914 (Little, Brown and Company, London, 1999)

G. K. Peatling, British Public Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865–1925 (Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 2001)

Mary Robinson, Everybody Matters: A Memoir (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2012)

J. F. S. Ross, The Irish Election System (The Pall Mall Press, London, 1959)

T. W. Russell MP, Ireland and the Empire: A Review, 1800–1900 (Grant Richards, London, 1901)

Jane Stafford, That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O’Connor Power (The History Press, Dublin, 2011)

E. D. Steele, Irish Land and British Politics: Tenant-Right and Nationality, 1865–1870 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974)

A. T. Q. Stewart, The Ulster Crisis: Resistance to Home Rule, 1912–1914 (Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1997; facsimile of 1st edn, Faber and Faber, London, 1967)

B. M. Walker, Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922 (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1978)

B. M. Walker, Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1918–1992 (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1992)

B. M. Walker, Ulster Politics: The Formative Years, 1868–86 (The Ulster Historical Foundation and The Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, 1989)

B. M. Walker, A Political History of the Two Irelands: From Partition to Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2012)

Basil Williams (ed.), Home Rule Problems (P. S. King & Son, London, 1911)

General

Liberal International World Liberal Union, Resolutions Adopted 1975 – 1981 (Instituto Per La Storia Del Movimento Liberale Bologna X, 2)

N/A, Issues of Liberty Yearbook 1987/1988 (Libro Aperto International, Paris, 1988)

Irene Collins, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Historical Association, London, 1957)

Jason Frazer and Luis Cano (eds), Measuring Diversity in Liberal Organisations (Rainbow Platform, Brussels, 2023)

Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History (Vintage Books, New York, 1998)

Timothy Garton Ash, History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (Allen Lane, London, 1999) Signed

Timothy Garton Ash, Free World: Why are Crisis of the West reveals the opportunity of our time (Penguin Books, London, 2005)

Timothy Garton Ash, Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing From A Decade With No Name (Atlantic Books, London, 2009)

Milosz Hodun (ed), Beyond Flat Earth: Conspiracy Theories Vs European Liberals (European Liberal Forum, np, nd)

Milosz Hodun, How To Make A Good Political Story (European Liberal Forum and Projekt: Polska, np, nd)

Milosz Hodun, Lonely Europeans: the impact of loneliness and isolation on the future of Europe (European Liberal Forum, np, nd)

Milosz Hodun, Us Them: Hate Speech at the Service of Politics (European Liberal Forum, np, nd)

Milosz Hodrun, Krzysztof Maczka, and Maciej Milewicz, Scary Stories: or the Sum of All Fears in Political Discourse in Poland and Hungary (European Liberal Forum, np, 2021)

Emil Joseph Kirchner, Liberal Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988

Hans Koln, Is the Liberal West In Decline? (Pall Mall Press, London, 1957)

Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Abacus, London 2018)

John H. MacCallum Scott, Experiment in Internationalism: A Study in International Politics (George Allen & Unwun Ltd, London, 1967)

Stuart de la Mahotiere, The Common Market: A Comprehensive Guide (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1961)

Chris Ogden, The Authoritarian Century: China’s Rise And The Demise Of The Liberal International Order (Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2022)

Julie Smith, A Sense of Liberty: The History of Liberal International, 1947-1997 (Liberal International, London, 1997)

Canada

Lian Goodall, William Lyon Mackenzie King: Dreams and Shadows (XYZ Publishing, Montreal, 2003)

Alan Hustak, Magnetic North: The Unauthorized Biography of Justin Trudeau Canada’s Selfie PM (Eyewear Publishing Limited, London, 2017)

Lester Pearson, Memoirs 1897-1948: Through Diplomacy to Politics (Victor Gollancz, London, 1973)

Lester Pearson, Memoirs Volume II 1948-1957: The International Years (Victor Gollancz, London, 1974)

Joseph Wearing, The L-Shaped Party: The Liberal Party of Canada 1958-80 (McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Toronto, 1963)

France

National Liberal Club

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)

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)

Brooks’s

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)

General club histories

Charles Graves, Leather Armchairs: The Chivas Regal Book of London Clubs (London: Cassell, 1963)

Anthony Lejeune, The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1979).

Anthony Lejeune, The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London (London: Stacey International, 2012) [heavily revised and rewritten version of the above]

Anita O’Brien and Chris Miles, A Peep into Clubland: Cartoons from Private London Clubs (London: Cartoon Museum, 2009)

Stan Shipley, Club Life and Socialism in Mid-Victorian London – History Workshop Pamphlets Number Five (London: History Workshop Journal, 1971)

Seth Alexander Thévoz, Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs (London: I. B. Tauris, 2018)

Liberal Magazine (1894–1950)

Liberal Year Book (1887–1939)

Lloyd George Liberal Magazine (1920–1923; 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)

SCLA (Society of Certified Liberal Agents) Quarterly (renamed Liberal Agent) Vol. 1 nos 1–14 (September 1895 – October 1898)

The Liberal Agent (January 1917 – July 1919)

The Political Gazetteer for England and Wales: for the use of Liberal Secretaries and Agents (Liberal Publications Department, London, 1901)

National Liberal Federation, Birmingham (Bound volumes) 1877–1901

Souvenir Programmes National Liberal Federation Annual Meetings 1912–1930