Lloyd George, the Liberal Crisis, and the Unionist Party during the First World War
(2023)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. (2023). Lloyd George, the Liberal Crisis, and the Unionist Party during the First World War. Journal of liberal history, 119, 18-29
Outputs (15)
"Send a Soldier to Parliament": Ex-servicemen, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Great War in Liberal Electoral and Parliamentary Politics (2023)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. (2023). "Send a Soldier to Parliament": Ex-servicemen, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Great War in Liberal Electoral and Parliamentary Politics. Journal of British Studies, 62(3), 739 - 766. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.233The spectacular collapse of the Liberal Party in Britain has often been regarded as the result of a crisis in Liberal values, supposedly provoked by the unprecedented militarization of British society during the Great War. However, this interpretatio... Read More about "Send a Soldier to Parliament": Ex-servicemen, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Great War in Liberal Electoral and Parliamentary Politics.
‘A Fighting Man to Fight for You’: The Armed Forces, Ex-Servicemen, and British Electoral Politics in the Aftermath of Two World Wars (2020)
Book Chapter
and British Electoral Politics in the Aftermath of Two World Wars. In D. Thackeray, & R. Toye (Eds.), Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises (71-93). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46663-3
Civilian and Military Power (Great Britain and Ireland) (2019)
Book Chapter
Johnson, M. (2019). Civilian and Military Power (Great Britain and Ireland). In U. Daniel, P. Gatrell, O. Janz, H. Jones, J. Keene, A. Kramer, & B. Nasson (Eds.), 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Freie Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.11341
Peace and Retrenchment? The Edwardian Liberal Party, the Limits of Pacifism, and the Politics of National Defence (2017)
Book Chapter
Johnson, M. (2017). Peace and Retrenchment? The Edwardian Liberal Party, the Limits of Pacifism, and the Politics of National Defence. In A. Gestrich, & H. Pogge von Strandmann (Eds.), Bid for world power? New research on the outbreak of the First World War (201-220). Oxford University Press
Asquith, Lloyd George, and the struggle for the premiership in December 1916 (2016)
Digital Artefact
Johnson, M. (in press). Asquith, Lloyd George, and the struggle for the premiership in December 1916. [History of Government blog]
Leading from the Front: The ‘Service Members’ in Parliament, the Armed Forces, and British Politics during the Great War (2015)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. (2015). Leading from the Front: The ‘Service Members’ in Parliament, the Armed Forces, and British Politics during the Great War. The English Historical Review, 130(544), 613-645. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev118The Great War was widely seen in Britain as a struggle for civilian and constitutional standards of government against the evils of ‘Prussian militarism’. Yet the British political class itself was by no means a purely ‘civilian’ caste. During the wa... Read More about Leading from the Front: The ‘Service Members’ in Parliament, the Armed Forces, and British Politics during the Great War.
‘The Great War and the collapse of the Liberal Party’ (2014)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. (2014). ‘The Great War and the collapse of the Liberal Party’. British politics review (Trykt utg.), vol. 9, no. 1,
Media Coverage of the Centenary of the Great War (2014)
Digital Artefact
Johnson, M. (2014). Media Coverage of the Centenary of the Great War. [Royal Historical Society, 'History in the News' blog]
More than spectators? Britain’s Liberal government and the decision to go to war in 1914 (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Johnson, M. (2014). More than spectators? Britain’s Liberal government and the decision to go to war in 1914