Product Description: This smart handbook gathers, in a concise and accessible format, a wealth of insight and information on 50 of the most vital political thinkers of all time and 10 major movements that have fundamentally changed the way people live...read more

On 3 May 1926, two million workers came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. The country braced itself for a Socialist revolution. Yet, in the ensuing nine days, strikers mobilised to save parliamentary democracy. This book provides an account both of the events that led up to the strike and of its aftermath.

At midnight on 3 May 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. This book draws on a variety of sources and affords readers a 21st-century lens through which to see the brief moment in the 1920s, when the British state seemed vulnerable to an alliance of external and internal threats.

Product Description: Stanley Baldwin was a Conservative politician, and served three times as Prime Minister, from 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37. Baldwin held various ministerial appointments in Lloyd George's coalition governments. A supporter of Bonar Law, he succeeded him as prime minister and alternated the premiership with Ramsay MacDonald over the next 14 years...read more

A Labour activist from her childhood, Barbara Castle rose from a junior position to the inner cabinet in Harold Wilson's administration in less than five years. This biography is an inside account of what it was like for a woman in 20th century British politics and public life.