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Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(2):370-376; doi:10.1093/pa/gsp003
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The Liberal Mind, 1914–1929

Steve Belzak

Department of Humanities
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
UK

Correspondence: sbelzak@uwic.ac.uk

MICHAEL BENTLEY, The Liberal Mind, 1914–1929, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 279 pp., ppk, ISBN 978-0-521-03742-6, 2007.

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   Introduction
 
Michael Bentley explains the title of his book by reference to the fact that ‘mind’ was a staple of political discussion in the period under examination. ‘As the historian works his way through the primary material he is struck by the pervasiveness of an explanatory language of "mind" and "spirit" and "outlook" ... There existed, that is to say, a language in which politics was debated, and within that language the vocabulary of "mind" was an important constituent’.

A pre-war critic of Liberalism such as Lord Alfred Douglas can be found writing in terms that one might find in a contemporary Daily Mail journalist attacking a particularly bossy New Labour minister. The Liberal mind he described as ‘a sour, dour, superior affair, full of kinks and ill-disposed to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Liberal difficulties
 

   The Liberal Party's road to ruin
 
UPPER AND NETHER MILLSTONES

   Conclusion
 

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