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Modern British Libertarian History Comes to Life...
...at the Botsford Archives, a now-digitized collection of video interviews with leading British libertarian scholars and activists conducted during the early 1990s. Spend some time with Kenneth Minogue, Lord Ralph Harris, and Norman Barry, among many others.
The modern British libertarian movement has a long and fascinating story, and the Botford Archives, hosted by the British Libertarian Alliance, is a great place to start. For the modern American libertarian movement, there is of course my book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.
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Tom Walls|2.6.08 @ 3:03PM|#
I was lucky enough to meet with Chris Tame, Brian Micklethwait, Sean Gabb and Nigel Ashford in my time. I once attended a Libertarian Alliance meeting in London and had great fun. They also made me drive a right-hand drive car for the first time afterwards.
Andrew Ian Dodge|2.6.08 @ 3:22PM|#
There is a UK Libertarian Party as of rather recently. Here is their site.
|2.6.08 @ 3:26PM|#
if ever there was a group even less successful that American libertarians....
|2.6.08 @ 4:30PM|#
The modern British libertarian movement
is the standard unit of measurement of British outhouse capacity.
|2.6.08 @ 10:38PM|#
Brian,
Good stuff. Thanks for the links.
|2.7.08 @ 1:13AM|#
There is a movement within the Liberal Democratic Party to become more liberal(european) and less social democratic. Several Lib Dem members published a big called the Orange Book that was very libertarian. They only chance libertarians in Britain have to be a force is to work with the Lib Dem Party. Also several Tories are libertarian including Alan Duncan MP. He wrote a book back in the 1990s' called Saturn's Children.....very libertarian included drug legalization and Basic Income in place of welfare state.