Liberals: A History of the Liberal and Liberal Democratic Parties by Roy Douglas soon to be presented for sale on the super BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: London & New York: Hambledon & London, 2005, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Black & white photographs; Frontispiece; Appendix;
From the cover: The party of Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George, the Liberal Party emerged in mid-Victorian Britain from a combination of Whigs, Radicals and Peelite Tories. It was a dominant force in Britain, and the world, at the height of the power of the British Empire. Split by Gladstones Home Rule Bills, it nevertheless returned to power in Edwardian England and held it until after the outbreak the First World War, with Lloyd George heading a Coalition Government from 1916-22. Riddled by internal divisions and increasingly challenged by Labour, the party lost ground in Parliament, becoming little more than a rump for many years. With the foundation of the Social Democrats in 1981, and their subsequent merger with the Liberals as Liberal Democrats in 1988, a modern version of the party emerged, under Paddy Ashdown and now Charles Kennedy as a significant third force in British politics.
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is a little sunned at the spine. Previous owners’ gift inscription to the first blank. Text complete, clean an
Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XII] 395 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½” x 6¼”.
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