The Union of Liberal Students (ULS) was the

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student wing of the

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had a separate organisation, Scottish Liberal Students. ULS was founded in 1920 as the Union of University Liberal Societies and merged with the student wing of the UK

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when the parent parties merged. Together with the party's youth wing, the National League of Young Liberals (NLYL or Young Liberals), the organisations made up the Young Liberal Movement. In 1990, the two organisations themselves merged to form Liberal Democrat Youth and Students (LDYS). In Spring 2008, it was renamed Liberal Youth, and in December 2016 as Young Liberals. ULS was a member of both IFLRY and LYMEC.

List of national chairs of the Union of Liberal Students

*Paul Farthing (1988-89) *Alun Evans (1987–88) *Sheila Cunliffe (1986–87) *Harriet Steele (1985–86) *Andrew Lawson/

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(1984–85) *Andrew Lawson (1983–84) * Elizabeth (Liz) Barker (1982–83) *Jane Merritt (1980–82) *David Hughes (1976–77) * Tony Greaves (1960s) * Trevor Smith (1950s) * Roger Roberts (1956–57) * Richard Gillachrist Moore (1954–55) *Derick Mirfin (1952–53) *

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(1922)

Participation in the National Union of Students and alliances in NUS

In 1966 Liberal, Communist and independent students formed the Radical Students Alliance with the intention of introducing a more active, grass-roots approach to student politics. In 1969

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was elected to the National Union of Students (NUS) executive as a Radical Students Alliance candidate. The RSA was dominant in student politics until 1971 when the Broad Left (an alliance of Communists and Labour Students) came to prominence. During the 1970s ULS had little success in NUS National Executive elections with Francis Hayden (1975), Gavin Grant (1978) and

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(1979) being the only electoral successes as part-time Executive members. In 1979 ULS was one of the founders of the Left Alliance along with Communist, independent Labour (not in the

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) and independent members. 1980-82 was a period of Left Alliance leadership of NUS with David Aaronovitch as President of NUS and Jane Taylor as National Secretary. In 1982 John Murray was elected as a part-time Liberal/LA member of the NUS Executive along with Frank Howard (Labour/LA) and Kate Steele (Communist/LA). John later went on to be National Treasurer of NUS.

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