This course covers the revival, triumph, division and decline of the British Liberal Party in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was an era of great turbulence and complexity, with Herbert Asquith, the party leader, having to grapple with issues like social reform, Irish nationalism, the suffragette movement, the rise of the Labour Party, and trade union unrest; while Edward Grey, as Foreign Secretary played a crucial in the lead-up to the First World War. Lloyd George was the decisive catalyst; his social radicalism, his outstanding wartime leadership; the post war coalition that he created which ended suddenly in I922, thus symbolising the decline of the Liberal Party.

6 weeks £90
Weekly on Wednesdays