Product Description: This volume is the first major account for nearly fifty years to critically re-assess Labour's first period in office in terms of domestic, foreign and imperial policy. It draws on a wide range of private papers and official sources and reconstructs the history of this forgotten government in the broader social and political context of the 1920s...read more

Product Description: This book examines the class nature of gambling in Britain which made the off-course ready-money gambling of the working-class illegal while permitting the middle-class off-course credit gambling. It rejects the views of the National Anti-Gambling League that working-class gambling was an excessive waste of money and suggests that it was, by and large, a bit of a flutter by the working classes...read more

Product Description: Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50,000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5,000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organisations experienced a very similar decline, although there has been a late flowering of Marxism in Scotland...read more

Product Description: In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power and the ensuing years are key to understanding Britain in the 21st century. Keith Laybourn and Christine Collette have gathered a carefully selected collection of materials from primary and secondary sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. Reflecting the changes within British society and politics over the past century, the entries chart the development of key contemporary issues such as women's rights, immigration and the emergence of New Labour. Figures covered include:* Winston Churchill* Tony Blair* Emmeline Pankhurst* David Lloyd George* Margaret Thatcher* John Maynard Keynes* Enoch Powell* Barbara CastleWith cross-referenced entries and helpful suggestions for further reading, this book is an essential guide for all those with an interest in understanding the dominating issues of modern British politics.

Product Description: This study addresses the three major aspects of Britain's discriminatory approach to women's employment laws which were domestic service, broad unemployment and the links between voluntary bodies and the British state. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Alphabetically arranged entries profile 198 people who filled the top four offices of the British state and the post of secretary of state for the colonies between 1730 and the present. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This work provides an illustrated history of the Labour Party, concentrating on the major personalities and crises. It tells the whole story, from its working class roots to Blairism and New Labour. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Charts the history of Marxism and communism in Britain, through the activites of the Social Democratic Federation and the Communist Party of Great Britain. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The General Strike of 1926 was the most important industrial dispute in British history. Almost 1,750,000 came out in support of about a million miners who had been locked out for rejecting reductions in pay and conditions. For nine days, from 3-12 May, Britain ground almost to a halt...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Synthesizes decades of research by labor historians for the non-specialist reader to trace the growth of the trade union movement in Britain from its weak beginnings to a dominant force in politics and industry. Draws especially on recent research that focuses on rank-and-file experiences and perspectives, and clarifies some of the debates among historians...read more

Product Description: The years between 1860 and 1920 saw dramatic changes in the lives of the English people and the attitudes of society towards poverty, community, voluntary activity and the role of the state. This collection of essays from established scholars and young academics brings together recent research on the social history of the period...read more

Product Description: Leading scholars explore recent research on the social and economic history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The years between 1860 and 1920 saw dramatic changes in the lives of the English people and the attitudes of society towards poverty, community, voluntary activity and the role of the State...read more

Product Description: The book covers the years 1881 to 1951 and looks at the Social Democratic Federation, the Independent Labour Party, the Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Product Description: This is a study of The Guild of Help, which was formed in Bradford in 1904 and quickly spread to oust the Charity Organization Society as the major component of British charity in the early 20th century. It arose at a time of concern about "national efficiency" and the condition of the poor...read more

Product Description: The General Strike of 1926 in support of the miners was the most important dispute in British industrial history. It is the only occasion on which the vast majority of the working class have given their industrial, financial and moral support to a group of workers for more than one day...read more

Product Description: From small and largely ineffectual beginnings the British trade union movement gradually emerged into a force to be reckoned with--a powerful organization that, at its peak, could make or break the operation of British politics and industrial relations...read more

Product Description: This book provides an analysis of some of the debates surrounding the history of the British Labour Party, providing students with guidance to the issues and identifying the ways in which the recent availability of new sources has changed the balance of argument and understanding...read more