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Autore: |
Cole Matthew <1962->
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Titolo: |
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats [[electronic resource] ] : unfinished business / / Matt Cole
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Pubblicazione: | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina: | 941.082092 |
Soggetto topico: | Legislators - Great Britain |
Politicians - Great Britain | |
Liberalism - Great Britain - History - 20th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Politics and government 1945- |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Before parliament -- pt. 2. Outside parliament -- pt. 3. In parliament -- pt. 4. After parliament. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wi |
Titolo autorizzato: | Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-84779-436-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465679803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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