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The '''Liberal Party''' was one of two main political parties in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1920s. Since then it has become an also-ran with few seats in parliament despite a moderately large vote.  In 1968 it merged with a breakaway faction of the [[Labour Party]] to form the '''Liberal Democratic Party.''' George Dangerfield argued in ''Strange Death of Liberal England'' (1935) that in the face of the multiple crises of Edwardian Britain around 1910—women's suffrage, Irish Home Rule, industrial unrest—liberalism crumbled. More recently historians have argued that 20th century Britain was dominated by liberalism and related creeds, especially as embodied in various kinds of "liberal socialism."<ref>See Green and Tanner, eds, ''The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate''(2007).</ref>

The '''Liberal Party''' was one of two main political parties in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1920s. Since then it has become an also-ran with few seats in parliament despite a moderately large vote.  In 1988 it merged with a breakaway faction of the [[Labour Party]] to form the '''Liberal Democratic Party.''' George Dangerfield argued in ''Strange Death of Liberal England'' (1935) that in the face of the multiple crises of Edwardian Britain around 1910—women's suffrage, Irish Home Rule, industrial unrest—liberalism crumbled. More recently historians have argued that 20th century Britain was dominated by liberalism and related creeds, especially as embodied in various kinds of "liberal socialism."<ref>See Green and Tanner, eds, ''The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate''(2007).</ref>

==Origins==

==Origins==