Ffion hague biography of abraham lincoln

Below is a bibliography of books on British liberal history, including biographies. This list serves as our ‘wish list’ for the National Liberal Club’s Library. All items in bold are works owned by the Club and all other works are pieces of liberal literature that we wish to own. If would like to contribute or donate to our Library, please contact the National Liberal Club’s Honorary Librarian, Dr. Seth Thévoz. Our thanks and acknowledgment to the Liberal History Group, who helped compile the original list of works found here.

Reference – Liberal Party history

• Vernon Bogdanor, Liberal Party Politics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983).
• Duncan Brack et al, Dictionary of Liberal Biography (Politico’s, London, 1998).
• _______________, Dictionary of Liberal Quotations (Politico’s, London, 1999).
• _______________, 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, Oxf

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The Conservative Party’s summer reading list




I can’t be the only one scratching my head at the Conservative Party’s summer holiday reading list. It’s week 2 of silly season, I grant you, and journalists will take pretty much anything on offer, but this just smacks of column filling (that said perhaps some of the larger tomes will act as wind breakers and/or sun shades on the beach).

According to the Sunday Times the reading list was chosen by Keith Simpson, a shadow foreign affairs spokesman and a former lecturer at Cranfield and Sandhurst. This is clearly reflected in his choice of reading material as 24 of the 38 books are on military history, geography, and terrorism. Nudge, the book currently feted by all three political parties looks like a definite afterthought.

What I find so puzzling is the choice of books on offer. I really can’t believe Cameron will be leafing through Empires of the Sea or Five Days in London on his hols.

There are no decent books on China (the more recent by Will Hutton, Charles Grant and Mark Leonard). What about Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody; Diplomacy by Henry Kissenger, or Thomas Rick’s Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005? The list of good books is endless – this l