TY - JOUR

T1 - Liverpool’s renewed Liberalism

T2 - Britain’s third party in post-war Merseyside politics

AU - Collinson, Marc

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PY - 2022/9

Y1 - 2022/9

N2 - This article disseminates the initial findings of a project examining political change and party politics in post-war Liverpool. Based on a scoping study funded by a HSLC Research Grant, it explores the exceptionalism of the post-war revival of Liberal party support in Liverpool following 1945, Liverpool, before outlining the initial evidence gleaned from a survey of extant party records in regional and institutional repositories. Finally, it advances an initial conclusion of the project, suggesting an alternative interpretation building on scholarship associated with so-called ‘new political history’. This encourages a more pluralist understanding of Merseyside political history, avoiding assumptions of a pre-1945 Conservative bastion or a post-war Labour city.

AB - This article disseminates the initial findings of a project examining political change and party politics in post-war Liverpool. Based on a scoping study funded by a HSLC Research Grant, it explores the exceptionalism of the post-war revival of Liberal party support in Liverpool following 1945, Liverpool, before outlining the initial evidence gleaned from a survey of extant party records in regional and institutional repositories. Finally, it advances an initial conclusion of the project, suggesting an alternative interpretation building on scholarship associated with so-called ‘new political history’. This encourages a more pluralist understanding of Merseyside political history, avoiding assumptions of a pre-1945 Conservative bastion or a post-war Labour city.

M3 - Article

VL - 171

SP - 9

EP - 21

JO - Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

JF - Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

SN - 0140-332X

IS - 1

ER -