Brack British Liberal Leaders

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84954-971-4
Verlag: Biteback Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten

As the governing party of peace and reform, and then as the third party striving to keep the flame of freedom alive, the Liberal Party, the SDP and the Liberal Democrats have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Earl Grey to Nick Clegg, via William Gladstone, David Lloyd George and Paddy Ashdown - have steered the Liberal vessel with enormously varying degrees of success. With the widening of the franchise, revolutionary changes to social values and the growing ubiquity of the media, the requirements, techniques and goals of Liberal leadership since the party's origins in the struggle for the Great Reform Act have been forced to evolve almost beyond recognition - and not all its leaders have managed to keep up. This comprehensive and enlightening book considers the attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective time and political landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, detailed personal biographies from some of the leading academics and experts on Liberal history, and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves. An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Liberal Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brack, Duncan

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

PETER BARBERIS is emeritus professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has written extensively on British government and politics and is the author of Liberal Lion – Jo Grimond: A Political Life (2005). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Joint University Council.

CHRIS BOWERS is a freelance writer and broadcaster on sport and current affairs. His Nick Clegg: The Biography was published by Biteback Publishing in 2011 (paperback update 2012), and among his other books is The Sporting Statesman (2014), about how the tennis champion Novak Djokovic is rehabilitating the reputation of Serbia.

DUNCAN BRACK is the editor of the Journal of Liberal History, and has co-edited and contributed to all the Liberal Democrat History Group’s previous books. He has been director of policy for the Liberal Democrats, chair of the party’s conference committee, and special advisor to Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He is currently vice-chair of the party’s Federal Policy Committee.

DAVID BROWN is professor of modern history at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on nineteenth-century British history, and his books include Palmerston: A Biography (2010) and Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1846–55 (2002).

JIM BULLER is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of York. He has a PhD from the University of Sheffield and has previously worked in the department of political science and international studies at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on the subject of British politics and public policy, including recent articles in the New Political Economy, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, West European Politics, Contemporary European Politics and British Politics. He has recently co-edited a special issue of Parliamentary Affairs on ‘Assessing Political Leadership in Context – British Party Leadership During Austerity’. He is also chair of the PSA Anti-Politics and Depoliticisation Specialist Group.

JOHN CAMPBELL is a freelance political biographer. His books have included Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness (1977), Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (1986), Edward Heath (1993, NCR Prize 1994), Margaret Thatcher: The Grocer’s Daughter (2000), The Iron Lady (2003), and, most recently, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (2014), which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and Costa book prizes and won the Paddy Power Political Biography award for 2015.

CHARLES CLARKE was Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1997 to 2010. He served as Education Minister from 1998 and then in the Home Office from 1999 to 2001. He then joined the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party chair. From 2002 to 2004, he was Secretary of State for Education and Skills, and then Home Secretary until 2006. Charles was previously chief of staff to Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock. He now holds visiting professorships at the University of East Anglia, Lancaster University and King’s College London, and works with educational organisations internationally. He edited The ‘Too Difficult’ Box and co-edited British Labour Leaders and British Conservative Leaders.

MATT COLE is a teaching fellow in history at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business (2011) and worked in the SDP’s general election unit in 1987.

DAVID DUTTON taught at the University of Liverpool for thirty-five years before retiring in 2010 as Ramsay Muir professor of modern history. His books include A History of the Liberal Party since 1900 (2013) and Liberals in Schism: A History of the National Liberal Party (2008).

DR RICHARD A. GAUNT is associate professor in British history at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Sir Robert Peel: The Life and Legacy (2010) and the editor of Peel in Caricature: The ‘Political Sketches’ of John Doyle (‘HB’) (2014).

DAVID HOWARTH is professor of law and public policy at the University of Cambridge, where he also directs the MPhil in public policy. From 2005–10, he was the Member of Parliament for Cambridge, serving in the Liberal Democrat shadow Cabinet as shadow Secretary of State for Justice. Before that he was leader of Cambridge city council. His research mainly concerns the relationship between law and politics and the design of legal institutions, but he also writes occasionally on Liberal and Liberal Democrat history.

GREG HURST spent fifteen years as a political journalist at Westminster, first with Southern Newspapers, and, from 2000–07, with The Times. He is the author of Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw (2006, updated edition 2015). He was editor of The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2010 and, since 2009, has been the newspaper’s education editor.

ROBERT INGHAM is a historical writer who has contributed to many of the Liberal Democrat History Group’s publications as well as the Journal of Liberal History.

TOBY S. JAMES is a senior lecturer in British and comparative politics at the University of East Anglia. He has a PhD from the University of York and has previously worked at Swansea University and the Library of Congress, Washington DC. He is the co-convenor of the Political Studies Association’s Political Leadership Group and has published on statecraft theory/political leadership in journals such as British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Electoral Studies and Government and Opposition. He has co-edited a special issue of Parliamentary Affairs on ‘Assessing Political Leadership in Context – British Party Leadership During Austerity’, is the author of Elite Statecraft and Election Administration, and co-edited British Labour Leaders and British Conservative Leaders.

DR TUDOR JONES is honorary research fellow in history of political thought at Coventry University. His publications include Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair (1996), Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: An Historical Introduction (2002), and The Revival of British Liberalism: From Grimond to Clegg (2011).

TONY LITTLE is chairman of the Liberal Democrat History Group and a former Liberal Democrat council group leader. Before retiring, he was head of corporate governance with a fund management company. He jointly edited the Liberal Democrat History Group’s Great Liberal Speeches (2001), and contributed to the Dictionary of Liberal Thought (2007) and Peace Reform and Liberation (2011).

DR HENRY MILLER is lecturer in nineteenth-century British history at the University of Manchester. He previously worked on the history of Parliament’s House of Commons 1832–68 project. He has published widely on nineteenth-century politics, including Politics Personified: Portraiture, Caricature and Visual Culture in Britain, c. 1830–1880 (2015).

KENNETH O. MORGAN was fellow and tutor at Queen’s College, Oxford, 1966–89; vice-chancellor at the University of Wales, 1989–95, and visiting professor at King’s College London, since 2011. He was made a fellow of the British Academy in 1983 and a life peer (Labour) in 2000. An honorary fellow of Queen’s and Oriel colleges, Oxford, he received a parliamentary award for lifetime achievement in 2014. His thirty-four books on modern British history include The Age of Lloyd George (1971), Consensus and Disunity: The Lloyd George Coalition Government 1918–1922 (1980), Ages of Reform: Dawns and Downfalls of the British Left (2010), and The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain (1983).

TONY MORRIS is emeritus professor at the University of Ulster. His books include C. P. Trevelyan: Portrait of a Radical (1977) and The Scaremongers: The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896–1914 (1984).

DR JAIME REYNOLDS has written extensively on Liberal history. He studied politics at the LSE and was awarded a PhD for research on east European history. He has worked for many years in international environmental policy, first in the UK public administration, and, for the past decade, as an official of the European Union.

DR IAIN SHARPE completed a University of London PhD thesis in 2011 on ‘Herbert Gladstone and Liberal Party revival, 1899–1905’. He works as an editor for the University of London International Academy and has served as a Liberal Democrat councillor in Watford since 1991.

GREG SIMPSON worked for the Liberal Democrats between 1997–2009 in various roles including foreign affairs and defence advisor, deputy head of the press office, speechwriter to Charles Kennedy, and head of policy and research. Since leaving the party, he has worked for the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy & Climate Change.

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