Overview
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Brian Brivati
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Kingston University, United Kingdom
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Richard Heffernan
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Open University, United Kingdom
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Themes in Labour’s First Century
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Back Matter
Pages 503-512
About this book
On 27 February 1900, the Labour Representation Committee was formed to campaign for the election of working class representatives to parliament. One hundred years on Labour is in government with an overwhelming majority. This book is a unique opportunity both to celebrate and assess critically the Labour Party's role in shaping events of the twentieth century. It brings together academics from a variety of disciplines to examine the history of the Party's development. Each chapter includes contributions in the form of commentary and analysis from former Labour leaders, cabinet ministers and backbench MPs. Contributors include: Michael Foot, Denis Healey, David Owen, Keith Laybourn, Robert Taylor, Steve Ludlam, Nick Ellison, Clare Short and Austin Mitchell, among others.
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'...deserve a prominent place among other recent accounts of the Labour Party's development.' - Albion
Editors and Affiliations
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Kingston University, United Kingdom
Brian Brivati
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Open University, United Kingdom
Richard Heffernan
About the editors
TIM BALE Lecturer in Politics, Victoria University, Wellington
LEWIS BASTON Senior Research Fellow, Kingston University
JOHN BIFFIN Former Conservative Cabinet Minister
ANDREW CHADWICK Lecturer in Politics, University of the West of England
CHRISTINE COLLETTE Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill College
ANGELA EAGLE Labour MP for Wallasey
NICK ELLISON Lecturer in Sociology, University of Durham
MICHAEL FOOT Leader of the Labour Party, 1980-83
DENIS HEALEY Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, 1980-83
KEVIN JEFFREY Reader in History, University of Plymouth
TUDOR JONES Senior Lecturer in Politics, Coventry University
DAN KEOHANE Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Keele University
KEITH LAYBOURN Department of History, Huddersfield University
STEVE LUDLAM Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield
AUSTIN MITCHELL Labour MP for Grimsby
DAVID OWEN Leader of the SDP, 1983-90
ERIC SHAW Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Stirling
CLAIRE SHORT Secretary of State for International Development
MARTIN J. SMITH Department of Politics, University of Sheffield
ROBERT TAYLOR Employment Editor, Financial Times