Introduction - The Formation and Development of the Liberal and Labour Parties - The Liberal Party, Progressive Politics and Liberal-Labour Relationships, 1906-1929 - Liberal-Labour Party Relationships, 1929-1939 - Labour's Pursuit of the Liberal Vote, 1945-1959 - Liberal and Labour Relationships 1959-1966: Revisionism and the Realignment of the Left - The Failure to Secure Realignment - Liberal Politics 1967-1979 - The Emergence of the Social Democratic Party - The Relationship Between the Liberal and Social Democratic Parties, 1981-1988 and the Formative Years of the Liberal Democrats - Modernisation and Renewal in the Labour Party and the Potential for Labour-Liberal Democrat Cooperation in the 1990s - Conclusion: Liberal Democrat - Labour Cooperation After 1997 - Bibliography - Index