This volume edits the correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland
of Killerton, Devon. It brings together a unique collection of
written sources for politics in the early twentieth century,
ranging from the administrative worldof high politics to
constituency electioneering in Cornwall and Devon. The Aclands made
a prominent contribution to Liberal party politics in this period
and their correspondence covers topics such as the pre-war campaign
for female suffrage, the key events of the First World War and the
party divisions that followed the fall of Asquith. These letters
therefore offer fresh insight into the changing fortunes of
Liberalism in this period. They also challenge the assumption that
the South West of Britain was a political backwater, covering the
remarkable rise and fall of Labour in Cornwall and the tensions
generated in rural Devon by Lloyd George's land campaign in the
mid-1920s. Notions of family tradition, territorial politics and
constituency representation were played out against the competing
influences of Devon, Cornwall and Westminster.
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