WHIG

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'Whig' may refer to:

Contents
Political parties and factions
In the United Kingdom
In the United States
Other
Music
Newspapers
Other uses
See also
Notes

Political parties and factions


In the United Kingdom


Kirk Party, a faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original Whigs

British Whig Party, one of two political parties in England and the United Kingdom from the 17th to 19th centuries

Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution

★ A nickname for the Liberal Party, a UK political party that succeeded the British Whig Party

★ A nickname for the Liberal Democrats, a UK political party formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party[1]
In the United States


Whig Party (United States), an American political party which operated from 1834-1856

★ A nickname for Patriots, supporters of the American Revolution
Other


True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's only legal political party from 1878 to 1980

Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove

★ The Neowhig Party, a fictional and satirical political party on the Internet that was founded by William Doty and William Grim in 2003.

Music



The Whigs, a 2000s garage rock band

The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band

Newspapers



★ ''Cecil Whig'' of Cecil County, Maryland, United States

★ ''Kingston Whig Standard'' of Kingston, Ontario, Canada

★ ''Knoxville Whig'', of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

★ ''Quincy Herald-Whig'' of Quincy, Illinois, United States

Other uses



American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University

White House Iraq Group, also known as the White House Information Group

Whiggish historiography, a theoretical approach among historians

See also



Wig (disambiguation)

Notes


1. Examples of "Whig" used of LibDems: Fight the flour where a LibDem raffled VIP tickets, Guardian Unlimited Politics reminiscences by Laurence Howarth


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