The Radical Thread - Liberalism and the rise of Labour in Scotland 1886 - 1924

PreambleThis paper is a revised version of a lecture delivered to the Liberal Democrat History Meeting at the Scottish Liberal Democrat Conference in 2009. It was the subject of a report in the Journal of Liberal History (Winter 2009-2010), pp. 32-38. See also Catriona M.M. Macdonald, The Radical Thread: Political Change in Scotland, Paisley 1885-1924 (John Donald, 2000).Contemporary resonances are seductive when reflecting on the historic and recent past of the Liberal Party in Britain and i...