Anne McElvoy tours 300 years of British liberalism, starting with dissident philosopher John Locke, whose opposition to arbitrary power drove him into exile - but still shapes us. Show more

Anne McElvoy revisits the innovative ideas of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith and the wider influence of the Whig aristocracy. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces the influence on British liberalism of Mary Wollstonecraft, who vindicated the rights of women, and Thomas Clarkson, who campaigned to end the slave trade. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores the ideas of Victorian liberals John Stuart Mill and John Bright, and how a Jamaican rebellion and its bloody suppression roused them against state violence. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores how 'Gladstonian' liberalism dominated Victorian Britain, and how it formed a bridge from aristocratic Whiggery to the interventionism of Edwardian liberals. Show more

Anne McElvoy tours British liberalism from the 'Glorious' Revolution to the Edwardian era. Show more

Anne McElvoy retraces a votes for women march, led by the non-violent Suffragist movement, to rediscover the story of its liberal leader, Millicent Fawcett. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores rival solutions to the 1930s Depression. The ideas of JM Keynes and Friedrich Hayek were often seen as opposed, but Anne explores why both men were liberal. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores the distinctively embattled liberalism that emerged in the Cold War. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores the rise and fall of the 1960s liberals, like reforming home secretary Roy Jenkins, and how economic liberals like Margaret Thatcher took a different path. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores how, since its 1960s highpoint, liberalism has come under pressure, and what this tells us about liberalism's limits, and its future. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces liberalism's development since the Suffragists. Show more