| LC control no. | n 79114231 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Liberal Party (Great Britain) |
| Variant(s) | Liberal Party (Gt. Brit.) |
| See also | Predecessor: Whig Party (Great Britain) Social and Liberal Democrats (Great Britain) |
| Beginning date | 1859 |
| Ending date | 1988 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Field of activity | Liberalism |
| Found in | Liberal news, Mar. 4, 1988: t.p. (Liberal Party merged 5/2/88 with Social Democratic Party to form Social and Liberal Democrats) Encyc. Brit. (Liberal Party; successor to the historic Whig Party) Wikipedia, viewed 27 Jan. 2016 (Liberal Party, UK; the party arose from an alliance of Whigs and free-trade Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s; the formal foundation of the Liberal Party is traditionally traced to 9 June 1859 and the formation of Palmerston's second government; the first Liberal government was formed in 1868; the establishment of the party as a national membership organisation came with the foundation of the National Liberal Federation in 1877) under Whigs, British political party (the term Liberal Party was first used officially in 1868 but had been used colloquially for decades beforehand) |
| Associated language | eng |
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