Lloyd George and the Coalition Liberal Party

The Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Scovell, General Secretary of the Party, 1919-1922
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83765-312-6
Verlag: Boydell Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Studies in Parliamentary History

Key documents from around the time that the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the main opposition to the Conservatives.

The Scovell papers provide previously unseen insights into the Coalition Liberal party: a party created to support David Lloyd George, prime minister 1916-1922, and his allies who had split from the main Liberal party during the First World War. They document the evolution of British politics at the point when the Liberals were giving way to Labour as the opposition to the Conservatives. They also document Lloyd George's failure to achieve a fusion of the Conservatives and Coalition Liberals to create an anti-socialist centre right party to stem the rise of Labour. The documents, at the intersection between the party at Westminster and the wider party in the country, make a significant contribution to debates about the relative primacy of the higher level versus the lower level within the evolution of British political system in this period. They show that the Coalition Liberal party had genuine substance at the local level,built up with painstaking spadework by Scovell and others, sufficiently strong to strike local deals in the 1922 election, thereby raising Lloyd George's hopes, falsely as it turned out, that he would be a key power broker and potentially still prime minister in the new parliament.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, G. H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations
Introduction:

The Coalition Liberal Party and its Place in History

Building a Party from Scratch: The Scovell Papers

Problems at Coalition Liberal Headquarters: A Move Against Scovell

The 1922 General Election Result and the Resignation

Conclusion

Coalition Liberal Party Documents 1919-23

Bibliography
Index of Westminster Constituencies
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bennett, G. H.
G. H. BENNETT is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Plymouth.