The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political
parties in British history. It was formed in 1886 by a faction of
the Liberal party, led by Lord Hartington, which opposed Irish home
rule. In 1895, it entered into a coalition government with the
Conservative party and in 1912, now under the leadership of Joseph
Chamberlain, it amalgamated with the Conservatives. Ian Cawood here
uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first
complete study of the Liberal Unionist party. He argues that the
party was a genuinely successful political movement with widespread
activist and popular support which resulted in the development of
an authentic Liberal Unionist culture across Britain in the
mid-1890s. The issues which this book explores are central to an
understanding of the development of the twentieth century
Conservative party, the emergence of a 'national' political
culture, and the problems, both organisational and ideological, of
a sustained period of coalition in the British parliamentary
system.
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