This highly topical and authoritative history examines the changing fortunes of the Liberals from the landslide victory of 1906, through the divisions and decline of the interwar years, to the repeated revivals in the forty years after Orpington in 1962. This concise survey examines not only the electoral fortunes of the party (including detailed analysis of the June 2001 election) but also the personalities, policies and power base of the contemporary party in the changed political landscape of the new century. Although a book designed for students of history and politics, this timely volume will also be essential reading for journalists, political commentators and party activists; indeed all those interested in the Liberal Democrat performance in the 2001 election and their prospects as the new century unfolds.

Chris Cook is the author of the six-volume "Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951" and is also editor of the "Pears Encyclopaedia". He has recently completed a new edition of "A Dictionary of Historical Terms".

About the Author
CHRIS COOK was educated at St Catherine's College, Cambridge and Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been director of successive surveys by the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics, as well as Head of History at what is now the University of North London. His many previous publications for Macmillan include the six-volume Sources in British Political History, 1900-51. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also editor of the best-selling Pears Encyclopaedia. He has recently completed a new edition of A Dictionary of Historical Terms.

Reviews
'covers all the highs and lows with fairness and detail' - Stephen Brasher, New Statesman



Book Information
ISBN 9780333918388
Author C. Cook
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan