A01=Garry Tregidga
Author_Garry Tregidga
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female suffrage
First World War
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IMPN=Devon & Cornwall Record Society
ISBN13=9780901853486
Labour in Cornwall
Language_English
Liberal party politics
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party divisions
PD=20180518
political backwater
POP=Exeter
Price=€20 to €50
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PUB=Devon & Cornwall Record Society
rural Devon
Sir Francis and Lady Acland
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Subject=Miscellaneous Items
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Product details
- ISBN 9780901853486
- Weight: 288g
- Dimensions: 145 x 230 x 15mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Devon & Cornwall Record Society
- Publication City/Country: Exeter, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This volume edits the correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland of Killerton, Devon. It brings together a unique collection of written sources for politics in the early twentieth century, ranging from the administrative worldof high politics to constituency electioneering in Cornwall and Devon. The Aclands made a prominent contribution to Liberal party politics in this period and their correspondence covers topics such as the pre-war campaign for female suffrage, the key events of the First World War and the party divisions that followed the fall of Asquith. These letters therefore offer fresh insight into the changing fortunes of Liberalism in this period. They also challenge the assumption that the South West of Britain was a political backwater, covering the remarkable rise and fall of Labour in Cornwall and the tensions generated in rural Devon by Lloyd George's land campaign in the mid-1920s. Notions of family tradition, territorial politics and constituency representation were played out against the competing influences of Devon, Cornwall and Westminster.
