Interesting, I see the Liberal History Group is holding a conference this saturday (November 1st on the Liberal Party's position in the First World War.
I will be going.
I want to find out whether they will be discussing Asquith's great passion for Venetia Stanley during those early years of the war. Will they discuss why Asquith was so depressed and why he agreed to the coalition so quickly in May 1915? Are they going to come clean that our prime minister was suicidal when Venetia threatened (and finally did) leave HH Asquith for another cabinet member?
If not, why not? And why are the Liberals so keen to keep the story hidden after all these years? Are there still people alive and in high places today that need protecting? And why are the squeaky clean Liberals so squeamish about these very dusty skeletons in their closet?
(A one-day conference organised by the Journal of Liberal History and King’s College, London. Saturday 1 November 2014, Room K2.40, Strand Campus of KCL.)
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