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Introduction Part I. - The Achievements, Decline and Debacle of the Liberal Party The Challenges and Crises Some Causes of Death: Social Changes and the Rise of Labour Some Causes of Death: the Demands of Total War Some Causes of Death: the Guilty Men Some Causes of Death: Liberals, Labour and Conservatives Conclusion: Natural Causes or a Strange Death? Part II. - The Liberal Party: Origins, Philosophy and Structures Origins, Traditions and the Legacy of Gladstone Foreign Policy, Free Trade and Empire New Liberalism, Self-Help, Laissez-Faire and the State Liberals and Labour: the Progressive Alliance The Liberal Party Structures A Liberal Electorate: Nonconformity, Class and the Regions Conclusion: a Broad Liberal Church Part III. - The Liberal Party in Office, 1905-1914 The Return to Power A Slow Start: Limits and Frustration, 1905-1908 The Radical Reforms: Old Age Pensions, National Insurance The People's Budget The Constitutional Crisis, House of Lords Reform and the Irish Problem Conclusion: The Liberal Party on the Eve of War Part IV. - The Impact of War and the Coalitions, 1914-1918 Britain Goes to War The Challenge of Total War The Wartime Coalition, May 1915-December 1916 The Fall of Asquith and the Liberal Party Split Lloyd George, the Coalition Liberals and Asquith Part V. - The Liberals Divided. Decline, False Dawns and Debacle, 1918-1924 The "Coupon" Election Civil War in the Liberal Party Reforms, Retrenchment and Coalition with the Conservatives An Indian Summer or a Party in No-Man's-Land? The End of the Road Postscript: The Liberal Party in the late 1920s and 1930s Conclusion. - How, when and why the liberal party died Bibliography Chronology Governments and principal ministers

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