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PAPER 6: BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY SINCE 1880
FACULTY READING LIST AND LIST OF CORE AND SURVEY LECTURES
Between 1880 and the beginning of the twenty-first century, the United Kingdom experienced civil war (in
Ireland, 1916-1923 and in Northern Ireland from 1972 to 1998), two world wars, the loss of its Empire, the
exponential increase of the parliamentary electorate, the impact of full political democracy, the rise of social
rights, and the reshaping of the Union. Throughout the period there was a vigorous debate on the role of the
state, and the freedom of markets, in a globalised economic system. Meanwhile, from 1882, imperial policymaking had to come to terms with various forms of radical nationalism, including the rise of modern terrorism
(in Ireland) and the politicisation of militant Islam (in Sudan). All had profound political consequences, although
these have not always been immediately obvious. The party system and much of the constitution remains in
place, parliamentary democracy has survived the challenges of Fascism and Communism apparently unscathed,
and politicians have spent much of the previous hundred years congratulating their audience on the country’s
remarkable capacity to ‘return to normal’ in the aftermath of major crises. Many contemporary political
controversies, such as devolution, Britain’s relationship with Europe and the future of the House of Lords, have
obvious parallels with late Victorian debates. Yet, while continuity undoubtedly forms an important element of
modern British political history, it would be wrong to obscure the fundamental changes that have occurred.
Religion no longer assumes a central importance in determining political allegiance (with the partial exception of
Northern Ireland), politicians now communicate with their audiences primarily through the filter of television,
and women outnumber men among the electorate.
This paper provides a unique opportunity to contextualise this complex narrative of continuity and change, while
affording students access to many of the new types of source material (primarily oral and audio-visual) that make
the study of the twentieth century so distinctive.
Modern historians are rightly wary of claiming that their subject can straightforwardly ‘explain the present’.
Nonetheless, the weight of the past upon contemporary party politics is so powerful that this paper promises to
throw unique light on the competing narratives of twentieth century history that continue to shape party political
discourse. New Labour self-consciously sought to distance itself from the supposed sins of Labour’s past.
Conservative leaders continued to be dogged by the shadow of Margaret Thatcher, who herself had sought to
free her party from its immediate, ‘consensual’, past. The Liberal Democrats ultimately found it necessary to
keep the ‘Liberal’ label, despite the desire of the original pioneers of the SDP to ‘break the mould’ of British
politics, and recently returned to coalition politics, something with which the late Victorians and the wartime
generations would have been familiar, because of the governments of 1886-1905, 1916-22, and 1931-45. Add to
this the polemical power in recent years of ‘Victorian values’, ‘appeasement’, ‘the Dunkirk spirit’, ‘the
Establishment’, ‘the welfare state’ and ‘the winter of discontent’, and the continued centrality of recent British
history to political debate is clear. To study this period is therefore a licence for judicious iconoclasm. It involves
a sceptical re-appraisal of many cherished assumptions about Britain’s recent past, and in the process grounds for
endless debate.
In the essays you write on this paper you may well have to deal with relatively short periods, but you should
always be prepared to relate your knowledge of such detailed events and processes to the wider themes of the
paper. The Cambridge History Faculty has always been exceptionally strong in the history of ideas, and this has
naturally affected the way in which political history is understood. Concepts relating to the constitution, the role
of the state, and national identity play an important part in the paper, and emphasis is placed on underlying
intellectual, cultural, religious, and linguistic developments. Candidates who have already studied this period at
school should find this approach both novel and refreshing, while candidates who have not studied the period
before may be reassured that they will not be at any disadvantage.
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The booklist
The diversity of approaches to studying this part of British history are reflected in the vast amount of historical
literature that has been published on it. The booklist aims to give you and your supervisor a sense of that variety
and a chance to shape your own reading programme from within it, by selecting a range of titles which are
suitable to the particular question angle you have decided to explore. Needless to say, the examiners do not
expect you to master more than a small proportion of the books and articles on the list. The aim of studying the
paper is to gain a sense of the dynamics of your chosen period.
In some of your other Tripos papers your main task may be to compare and evaluate other historians’
interpretations, but the study of political history allows you to use what other historians say to mark out your
own path through the complicated byways of the past. The sections of the booklist aim to help you do this, but
they are not a straitjacket and they are certainly not intended to privilege any particular schemes of
interpretation.
The booklist is divided into two sections. Those in the first section follow a political chronology, while those in
the second focus on the most important themes of the period. In order to study political history effectively, you
will need a grasp of the political narrative covered in the first section, and so most supervisors will want you to
cover at least four consecutive chronological topics. It is essential to ensure that by the time of the examination
you are familiar with at least 75-80 years of the period. It is for supervisors and candidates to work out their
own preferred combination of chronological and thematic topics, since there is such a wide choice. The
following advice may be useful.
Naturally, the distinction between chronological and thematic topics is not absolute, since the chronological
topics also privilege particular themes where relevant. It is probably a good idea to start with some broadly
chronological topics in order to gain familiarity with the period and its political culture. It is a particular feature
of political history at Cambridge to emphasise the role of political ideas and policy approaches as well.
Therefore it is important, when writing essays about particular governments or parties, to make use of crossreferences to those thematic topics that deal with appropriate policy issues (e.g. foreign policy, Ireland, social
policy). Similarly, when writing on the broader thematic topics, you will need enough chronological detail to
make your generalisations convincing. Your supervisor should give you guidance on how best to do this. The
most important cross-references are marked at the top of each topic, together with a summary of important issues
that the reading raises. This often takes the form of a string of interrogatives, designed to give you an insight into
the sort of questions that might be asked.
Some of the thematic topics focus on particular dimensions of the course of United Kingdom history, such as the
history of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Others feature problems such as the place of national identity in politics,
the complexity of gender as a historical factor, the role of the media or the impact of particular economic
doctrines, such as Keynesianism, on policy-making. The booklist is thus designed to illuminate all those issues
that provoke most debate among historians at the moment. Candidates should note that they will usually be
required to answer questions on these topics over a considerable number of years. While questions vary from
year to year, some broad issues have become standard features of the paper: please look at the most recent past
papers for the best guide.
Candidates should see their weekly topics as the foundation of a general intellectual understanding of their
chosen period, which will need to be supplemented by targeted reading after the supervisions have been
completed and when revising.
Note that this document opens with a list of general works on the period, including items that relate to the
general economic and social background. Most of these are not listed again under individual topics, even
though they may be extremely relevant to some of them. So whenever you start on a week’s work,
remember to look first at the general section.
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The various topics in this booklist are the ones around which the examination questions will be structured. This
is appropriate, since examination papers usually contain about 21 questions (including ‘either/or’ alternatives as
two questions). However you should not assume that there will be a straightforward question on each topic.
Because of the many ways in which connections between thematic and chronological topics can be traced,
questions may appear in a somewhat indirect form (see under ‘Tripos questions’ below). Candidates should
understand this inter-relationship and should revise the great majority of the topics that they have
studied, rather than treat them as entirely discrete topics.
Tripos questions
Before setting a Tripos question paper the examiners will consult with all those who lecture on and supervise in
that paper in order to find out what subjects the undergraduates taking that paper have covered. Their aim is then
to set a paper which will be fair to all candidates, while nevertheless making sure that the questions are
sufficiently searching to allow the better prepared candidates to demonstrate their superiority. Examiners will
expect you to be able to argue a case, to back it up with detailed factual examples, and to consider and counter
possible objections to the case you have made. You may wish to support your arguments by references to the
historiography, for while it is not necessary (on this paper) to do so simply for the sake of it, it can often be an
efficient way of getting your understanding across. There are some topics, for example politics in the age of
Gladstone and Salisbury or international relations in the inter-war period, which have been so defined by the
historiography that substantial reference to it is more or less essential. But you will certainly not be penalised
merely for making a case which the examiner happens not to agree with.
What examiners are looking for above all is an ability to conceptualise political problems effectively - for
example by comparing different periods and personalities or different intellectual approaches to the
subject - but in a way that appreciates the richness and subtlety of the historical material.
Most Tripos papers will contain a substantial number of thematic questions covering long periods. Naturally,
the longer the period, the less comprehensive detail is expected; however simplification can easily be taken too
far, since politics is necessarily a complex process at all times. Candidates will need to show both the ability to
generalise and an appreciation of when generalisation is inappropriate.
Questions rooted in the chronological section will usually focus on a shorter time scale, but you cannot assume
that this will replicate the particular periodization used in this booklist. Some questions may straddle more than
one period. Some may pursue a prominent political theme across time. These might, for example, include
controversies over a particular category of policy issue, or questions about the qualities required for political
leadership or the reasons for ministerial success or failure. Sometimes you will be specifically invited to relate
your close knowledge of an individual or period to wider themes, as for example in the question, ‘What was x’s
legacy for British politics?’ Examiners may want to encourage candidates to discuss, say, whether there was a
coherent tradition behind the policies adopted by a particular party and how it changed over time, or how
attitudes to party shifted at different periods.
A favourite device of examiners is to disguise a question in the form of a proposition in quotation marks,
followed by an injunction to ‘Discuss’. It is perfectly legitimate in such cases to take a middle view by showing
the ways in which the proposition seems true and the ways in which it seems false. It is equally legitimate to
agree wholly with the proposition or else to disagree with it wholly. However, if you decide to disagree with it,
you must include some recognition of why it might be true, since the examiner would not have included a
proposition which he or she believed to be wholly false. It is not wise to deny an assertion without having the
knowledge to appreciate why a case for it might be made. If you cannot even see what a question might be
getting at, better not to answer the question.
Finally, it might be useful to turn from these generalisations to what various examiners have reported on Paper 6
in recent years. They will help you to identify the features examiners most value in scripts, and structure your
approach to the paper in a way which is both comprehensive and balanced. Both past exam papers and the
examiners' reports are available on the History Faculty website. So are the criteria of assessments which
examiners will use in marking scripts, indicating clearly the strengths and the qualities which essays should
display in order to qualify for a certain class and range of marks.
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Lectures
Michaelmas Term:
DR L. DELAP, DR B. GRIFFIN, DR. J. LAWRENCE, DR S. MIDDLETON & DR P. SLOMAN
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11 a.m.
1. OCTOBER 11
2. OCTOBER 12
3. OCTOBER 18
4. OCTOBER 19
5. OCTOBER 25
6. OCTOBER 26
7. NOVEMBER 1
8. NOVEMBER 2
9. NOVEMBER 8
10. NOVEMBER 9
11. NOVEMBER 15
12. NOVEMBER 16
13. NOVEMBER 22
14. NOVEMBER 23
15. NOVEMBER 29
16. NOVEMBER 30
Lawrence:
Lawrence:
Sloman:
Delap:
Griffin:
Lawrence:
Lawrence:
Delap:
Lawrence:
Lawrence:
Lawrence:
Middleton:
Lawrence:
Middleton:
Lawrence:
Lawrence:
Peculiarities of the English constitution
Politics and the media
Politics and economics since the 1930s
Religion and politics
Gladstonianism
4 Nations perspectives on British Politics
Conservatism, 1880-1914
Radicalism, Labour and New Liberalism
War and realignment, 1914-1924
Baldwin and inter-war Conservatism
Politics of Labour, 1924-1945
War and state intervention in 20thC
Building the 'New Jerusalem', 1945-51
Conservatism and post-war affluence
Wilson, Heath & the breakdown of 'consensus'
Thatcherism
Lent Term:
PROF BEW, MR A. CAMPSIE, DR L. DELAP, DR N. GALLAGHER, DR. B. GRIFFIN, DR M.
HAEUSSLER, Mr P. HESSION, DR S. MIDDLETON & MR L. SWEENEY
Monday and Tuesday at 11 am for SIX weeks.
1. JANUARY 23
2. JANUARY 24
3. JANUARY 30
4. JANUARY 31
5. FEBRUARY 6
6. FEBRUARY 7
7. FEBRUARY 13
8. FEBRUARY 14
9. FEBRUARY 20
10. FEBRUARY 21
11. FEBRUARY 27
12. FEBRUARY 28
Griffin:
Delap:
Sweeney:
Gallagher:
Hession:
Gallagher:
Haeussler:
Sweeney:
Haeussler:
Bew:
Campsie:
Campsie:
Gender and politics
The women's suffrage movement
Imperial nation, Britain 1880-1939
Ireland, 1880-1916
Scotland, 1880-1939
The Irish Revolution and Northern Ireland, 1916-1960
Foreign policy between the Wars
End of empire
Britain and the process of European integration
The Northern Irish Troubles and the peace process
Old Labour, New Labour
Scotland, 1939-2015
Easter Term:
DR. J. LAWRENCE
Revision. (Two two-hour classes, weeks 2-3), Thursday at 2p.m.
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Some useful introductory books
Callum Brown & Hamish Fraser, Britain since 1707 (2007)
Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 (2nd edn, 2004)
John Davis, A History of Britain, 1885-1939 (1999)
Jose Harris, Private Lives, Public Spirit, 1870-1914 (1993)
Brian Harrison, The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995 (1996)
Martin Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1945 (3rd edn, 2002)
David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British policy and world power in the twentieth century (2nd edn, 2000)
Gwyn Williams and John Ramsden, Ruling Britannia: a political history of Britain, 1688-1988 (1990)
For reference
David Butler and Gareth Butler, British Political Facts, 1900-2000 (2000)
Brian Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (1988)
Course Website
The course organisers maintain a ‘Moodle’ website to support the course at
https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=90991
Here you will a variety of materials to support Faculty and college teaching including lecture hand-outs,
unpublished papers, links to other web sources and a discussion page – members will also be able to receive
email reading updates during the year. You should be automatically enrolled for the site by week 2. If you need
help you should email Dr Lawrence (Michaelmas) or Dr Delap (Lent).
SECTION A ~ Chronology
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Gladstonian Liberalism and the People, 1880-95
Conservatism and Unionism, 1880-1900
Labour and Working-class Politics before the First World War
New Liberalism and the Politics of Welfare
Party Realignment, 1910-1924
Conservative hegemony?
Labour’s Long March, 1914-1939
Politics in the 1940s
Post-war Affluence and Conservatism
The Post-War Settlement in Crisis, 1964-1979
Thatcherism
Politics after Thatcher
SECTION B ~ Themes and issues
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Adjusting to Democracy: Parliament, Parties and the Constitution, 1880-1914
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century
Political Communication
Electoral Behaviour Since 1918
Women’s Political Activity
War, State and Society, 1900-1945
Keynes, Economic Policy and the State
Governing Ireland, 1880-1914
Ireland Since 1914
Scotland and Wales since 1880: Rebirth of Two Nations?
Britain Abroad: Free Trade, Europe and Empire, 1880-1914
Britain, Europe and the World Between the Wars
Britain, Europe and the World Since 1945
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Abbreviations of Journals
[square brackets indicate a subsequent change of title - how it will be shelved today]
AmHR
BIHR
BJIS
BJPS
BJPIR
BJS
CBH
CHJ
CIS
CR
EcHR
EHR
HEQ
HJ
HR
HW[J]
IA
IRSH
JBS
JCH
JICH
JRLS
JSH
LRB
LHR
P&P
PA
PBA
PH
PQ
Proc.BA
SH
TCBH
TRHS
VS
WHA
WHR
American Historical Review
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research [later Historical Research]
British Journal of International Studies
British Journal of Political Science
British Journal of Politics and International Relations
British Journal of Sociology
Contemporary British History
Cambridge Historical Journal [Historical Journal]
Contemporary Irish Studies
Contemporary Record [Contemporary British History]
Economic History Review
English Historical Review
History of Education Quarterly
Historical Journal
Historical Research
History Workshop [Journal]
International Affairs
International Review of Social History
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Contemporary History
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Journal of Regional and Local Studies
Journal of Social History
London Review of Books
Labour History Review
Past and Present
Parliamentary Affairs
Proceedings of the British Academy
Parliamentary History
Political Quarterly
Proceedings of the British Academy
Social History
Twentieth Century British History
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Victorian Studies
Women’s History Review
Welsh History Review
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N.B. All candidates are advised also to consult the Paper 11 reading-list on areas where themes overlap (e.g. welfare
policy, ‘affluence’ and Thatcherism)
General Reading
These books are listed separately for reasons of convenience. They will provide you with essential
background and an overview of the paper. You should routinely consult the relevant sections below
before beginning the reading for your weekly supervision essay.
Textbooks
R. Blake
*P. Clarke
*J. Davis
R.F. Foster
B. Harrison
Martin Pugh
*K.T. Hoppen
A. Marwick
*K.O. Morgan
B. Porter
G. Searle
*R.T. Shannon
The Decline of Power 1915-64 (1985)
Hope and Glory: Britain in the twentieth century, 2nd edn. (2004)
A History of Britain, 1885-1939 (1999)
Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988)
The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995 (1996)
Speak for Britain: a new history of the Labour Party (2010)
Ireland since 1800: conflict and conformity (1989)
A History of the Modern British Isles 1914-1999 (2000)
The People's Peace 1945-90 (1992)
Freedom, Empire and Decline: a Political History of Britain 1851-90 (1994)
A New England? Peace and War, 1886-1918 (2004)
The Crisis of Imperialism 1865-1915 (1974)
Party Politics
R. Blake
The Conservative Party from Peel to Major (1997 edn.)
*P. Clarke
A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Blair (1999)
A. Davies
We, the Nation: the Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power (1995)
*M. Francis &
The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990 (1996)
I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska
P. Hennessy &
A. Seldon
Ruling Performance: British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher (1987)
*J. Lawrence &
M. Taylor (eds)
Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain Since 1820 (1997)
J.P.Mackintosh (ed)
British Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century (2 vols, 1977-8)
P.Hennessy
The Prime minister. The office and its holders since 1945 (2000)
H. Pelling
Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain (1967)
*R. McKibbin,
Parties and People, England 1914-1951 (2010)
H. Pelling & A. Reid A Short History of the Labour Party (11th edn, 1996)
*M. Pugh
The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1945 (2002)
J. Ramsden
An Appetite for Power: A History of the Conservative Party Since 1830 (1998)
A. Seldon &
S. Ball (eds.)
Conservative Century: The Conservative Party Since 1900 (1994)
R. Self
The Evolution of the British Party System, 1885-1940 (2000)
*A. Thorpe
A History of the British Labour Party (1997)
R. Ingham &
D. Brack (eds)
Peace, Reform and Liberation: a History of Liberal Politics in Britain, 1679-2011
(2011)
D. Tanner, P. Thane &
N. Tiratsoo (eds)
Labour’s First Century (2000)
E. Biagini
‘Gladstone’s legacy’, in R.Quinault, R.Swift and R.Clayton Windschaeffel (eds.),
William Gladstone. New Perspectives (2012)
B. Harrison
Seeking a Role: the United Kingdom, 1951-1970 (2009)
B. Harrison
Finding a Role? The United Kingdom, 1970-1990 (2010)
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Social and Economic Background of Political Change
P. Addison
*D. Cannadine
S.G. Checkland
*J. Cronin
J.Tomlinson
No Turning Back: the Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain (2010)
Class in Britain (1998)
British Public Policy 1776-1939 (1983)
The Politics of State Expansion (1991)
‘Thrice Denied: “Declinism” as a Recurrent Theme in British History in the Long
Twentieth Century,’ TCBH, 20 (2009)
G. Finlayson
Citizen, State and Social Welfare in Britain, 1830-1990 (1994)
D. Fraser
The Evolution of the Welfare State: a History of British Social Policy Since the
Industrial Revolution (1984 ed.)
A. Gamble
Britain in Decline (4th ed., 1994)
J. Harris
Private Lives, Public Spirit: a Social History of Britain 1870-1914 (1993)
B. Harrison
Peaceable Kingdom: Stability and Change in Modern Britain (1985)
A. Howe
Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (1998)
*R. McKibbin
The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain, 1880-1950 (1990)
*R. McKibbin
Classes and Cultures: England, 1918-51 (1998)
A. Marwick
British Society since 1945 (1982)
*H. Perkin
The Rise of Professional Society: England since 1880 (1989)
J. Stevenson
British Society 1914-1945 (1984)
*F.M.L. Thompson (ed.) The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, 3 vols.,(1990)
D. Vincent
Poor Citizens: the State and the Poor in the Twentieth Century (1991)
Culture and Media
Noel Annan
G. Boyce, J. Curran
& P. Wingate
L. Brown
*S. Collini
M. Hampton
*S. Koss
*P. Mandler and
S. Pedersen (eds.)
A. Marwick
*C. G. Brown
*K. Robbins
M. Wiener
R. Williams
R. Williams
Our Age (1990)
Newspaper History From the 17th Century to the Present Day (1978), chs 1, 3, 6, 7
Victorian News and Newspapers (1985)
Public Moralists (1992)
Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950 (2004)
The Rise and Fall of the Political Press, 2 vols (1981-4)
After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain (1994)
British Culture since 1945 (1991)
The death of Christian Britain. Understanding Secularisation 1800-2000 (2009)
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. The Christian Church 1900-2000 (2008)
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit (1982)
The Country and the City (1975)
The Long Revolution (1961)
Women’s History
J. Gottlieb &
R. Toye (eds)
S. Bruley
*J. Lewis
J. Lewis
J. Purvis, (ed.)
*J. Rendall (ed.)
*H. Smith (ed.)
I. ZweinigerBargielowska
The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender and Politics in Britain (2013)
Women in Britain since 1900 (1999)
Women in England, 1870-1950 (1984)
Women in Britain since 1945 (1992)
Women’s History in Britain, 1850-1945 (1995)
Equal or Different: Women's Politics, 1800-1918 (1987)
British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990)
Women in Twentieth-Century Britain: Social, Cultural and Political Change (2001)
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External Policy
J.M. Brown &
W.M. Louis (eds.)
*P.J. Cain &
A.G. Hopkins
A.G. Hopkins
D. Dilks (ed.)
*P. Marsh
P. Kennedy
*D. Reynolds
The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. iv: The Twentieth Century (1999)
Imperialism: vol. 1, Innovation and Expansion 1688-1914; & vol. 2, Crisis and British
Deconstruction, 1914-90 (new edn, 2002)
‘Rethinking Decolonisation.’ P&P (2008)
Retreat From Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy in the 20th Century, vol. ii (1981)
Bargaining on Europe. Britain and the First Common Market, 1860-1892 (1999)
The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy
1865-1980 (1981)
Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century (2nd ed.,
2000)
Reference
New Oxford DNB
@ http://www.oxforddnb.com/ [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography via UL eresources]
*D. Butler & G. Butler Twentieth Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000 (2000)
*C. Cook and
J. Stevenson
The Longman Handbook of Modern British History (3rd ed., 1996)
M. Thrasher &
C. Rallings
British Electoral Facts, 1832-2006 (2007) [or earlier F.W.S. Craig edns]
*A.H. Halsey (ed.)
British Social Trends since 1900 (1988)
B.R. Mitchell
British Historical Statistics (2nd ed., 1989)
R. Eccleshall &
G. Walker (eds)
Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers (1998)
* Especially important general text
Topic Reading Lists: Most sections begin with starred works (*). These represent contemporary primary
sources, historiographical classics, plays, films or novels which are interesting as
background reading. Your supervisor will identify the most important secondary works
for the particular essay topic you have been assigned.
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SECTION A ~ Party politics
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Gladstonian Liberalism, 1880-95
Gladstone's appeal as Liberal leader; his populist political approach; his relations with lower-class groups and
with the Whig-Liberal tradition; the influence of extra-parliamentary pressure groups – ‘faddists’,
nonconformists, Celts – on Liberal policy; the Irish question; the relative importance of these various tensions in
the split of 1886. (See also reading list A3)
*William Gladstone
Midlothian Speeches, 1879-80 (ed. M.R.D. Foot , 1971)
*H.C.G. Matthew & M.R.D. Foot (eds.) The Gladstone Diaries 14 vols. (1968-1994)
Introductory/General
M. Bentley
J. Parry
T. Jenkins
G.R. Searle
The Climax of Liberal Politics, 1868-1918 (1987)
The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (1993)
The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830-86 (1994)
The Liberal Party; Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929 (2nd edn 2001)
Biographies and ‘High Political’ Studies
J.P.P. Parry
‘Religion and the decline of Gladstone’s first Government’, HJ (1982)
E.F. Biagini
Gladstone (2000)
R. Jenkins
Gladstone (1995)
H.C.G. Matthew
Gladstone 1809-74 (1986) and Gladstone, 1875-98 (1995)
D.W. Bebbington
The Mind of Gladstone (2004)
K. Robbins
John Bright (1979)
P. Marsh
An Entrepreneur in Politics: Joseph Chamberlain (1994)
A.B. Cooke & J.R. Vincent The Governing Passion: Cabinet Government and Party Politics in Britain 1885-6
(1974)
D.A. Hamer
Liberal Politics in the Age of Gladstone and Rosebery: a Study in Leadership and
Policy (1972)
P. Marsh
An Entrepreneur in Politics: Joseph Chamberlain (1994)
I. Cawood
The Liberal Unionist Party. A History (2012)
T.A. Jenkins
Gladstone, Whiggery and the Liberal party 1874-86 (1988)
J.P.P. Parry
The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 18301886 (2006) and Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party (1986)
E.F. Biagini
‘Exporting “Western & Beneficent Institutions’: Gladstone and Britain’s Imperial Role’,
in D. Bebbington and R. Swift (eds.), Gladstone’s Centenary Essays (2000).
B. Porter
‘Gladstone and imperialism’ in M. Daily and T. Hoppen (eds.), Gladstone: Ireland and
Beyond (2011)
D. Omissi
‘“A most arduous but most noble duty”: Gladstone and the British Raj in India, 186898’ in M. Daily and T. Hoppen (eds.), Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011)
W.C. Lubenow
Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: the British House of Commons in
1886 (1988)
Popular Liberalism, Radicals and the Lib-Labs
B. Griffin
D.W. Bebbington
M. Barker
E. Biagini
E. Biagini
The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain. Masculinity, political culture and the
struggle for women’s rights (2012)
The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics 1870-1914 (1982)
Gladstone and Radicalism, 1886-1894 (1975)
Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone 186080 (1992), esp. chas 4 and 6
British democracy and Irish nationalism, 1876-1906 (2007), esp. chas 1 and 2
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E. Biagini & A. Reid
M. Roberts
J. Munson
J.R. Vincent
Currents of Radicalism (1991)
Political Movements in Urban England 1832-1914 (2009) (a synthesis: chs 4-5 cover
Popular Liberalism and chs 8-9 Liberals and Labour)
The Politics of Electoral Pressure: a Study in the History of Victorian Reform Agitations
(1977)
Work, Society and Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Late Victorian England (1980)
‘Popular Radicalism and the Socialist Revival in Britain,’ JBS (1992)
Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics, 1867-1914 (1998)
The Liberal Party in Rural England (2003)
‘Disestablishment and Democracy, c.1840-1930’, in E.F. Biagini (ed.), Citizenship and
Community (1996)
‘Rhetoric and Politics’, in P.J. Waller (ed.), Politics and Social Change in Modern
Britain (1987)
The Nonconformists: in Search of a Lost Culture (1991)
The Formation of the Liberal Party 1857-68 (1966)
A2
Conservatism and Unionism, 1880-1906
D.A. Hamer
P. Joyce
J. Lawrence
J. Lawrence
P. Lynch
G.I.T. Machin
H.C.G. Matthew
How successfully the traditional landed Tory Party responded to the challenge of mass politics under Disraeli;
how Salisbury's strategic vision of Conservatism intermeshed with the issue of Home Rule to create a Unionist
ascendancy after 1886; the reasons for Conservative electoral success in 1874 and 1886-1900; the extent and
nature of working-class and ‘villa’ Conservatism; the legacy of Salisbury's governments (see also reading lists
A3 & B8).
*Mrs Humphry Ward
*G. & W. Grossmith
Marcella (1894; Virago paperback)
Diary of a Nobody (1892; Penguin paperback)
Introductory/General
B. Coleman
J. Cornford
H. Cunningham
P. Readman
Conservatism and the Conservative Party in Nineteenth Century Britain (1988)
‘The Transformation of the Conservative Party in the Late Nineteenth Century,’ VS
(1963-4)
‘The Conservative Party and Patriotism’, in Englishness: Politics and Culture, ed. R.
Colls and P. Dodd (1986)
‘The Conservative Party, Patriotism and British Politics: the Case of the General
Election of 1900’, JBS (2001)
Salisbury and Unionism
R. Quinault
A. Roberts
D. Steele
A. Adonis
M. Bentley
R. Blake & H. Cecil
A.B. Cooke &
J.R. Vincent
K.T. Hoppen
P. Marsh
I. Cawood
E.H.H. Green
G.I.T. Machin
‘Lord Randolph Churchill and Tory Democracy, 1880-1885’, HJ, 22 (1979)
Salisbury (1999)
Lord Salisbury. A political Biography (1999)
Making Aristocracy Work 1884-1914 (1993)
Lord Salisbury’s World: Conservative Environments in Late Victorian Britain (2001)
Salisbury: the Man and his Policies (1987)
The Governing Passion: Cabinet Government and Party Politics in Britain 1885-6
(1974)
‘Gladstone, Salisbury and the end of Irish Assimilationism’ in M. Daily and T. Hoppen
(eds.), Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011)
An Entrepreneur in Politics: Joseph Chamberlain (1994)
The Liberal Unionist Party. A History (2012)
The Crisis of Conservatism, 1880-1914 (1995)
Politics and the Churches in Great Britain 1869-1921 (1987), chs 3, 5, 6
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P. Marsh
R. Shannon
The Discipline of Popular Government: Lord Salisbury’s Domestic Statecraft 18811902 (1978)
The Age of Salisbury, 1881-1902 (1996)
Popular Conservatism and ‘Villa Toryism’
M. Brodie
M. Roberts
M. Roberts
D.M. Jackson
A. Windscheffel
The Politics of the Poor: the East End of London, 1885-1914 (2004)
Political Movements in Urban England 1832-1914 (2009) chs 6-7
‘Constructing a Tory world-view: popular politics and the Conservative press in lateVictorian Leeds’, Historical Research, 79:203 (2006)
‘Villa Toryism and popular Conservatism in Leeds, 1885-1902’ HJ (2006)
‘Villa Toryism Re-considered: Conservatism and Suburban Sensibilities in LateVictorian Croydon’, in E. Green (ed.) An Age of Transition: British Politics 1880-1914
[Special edition of PH, (1997)]
Work, Society and Politics (1980)
‘Class and Gender in the Making of Urban Toryism,’ EHR (1993)
The Tories and the People, 1880-1935 (1985)
‘Go out into the Highways and the Hedges’: the Diary of Michael Sykes, Conservative
Political Lecturer, 1895 and 1907-8’, PH, 20:2 (2001)
‘The Conservative Club Movement in the Industrial West Riding’, Northern History,
2001
‘Society, Status and Jingoism: Lower-middle-class Patriotism 1870-1900,’ in The Lower
Middle Class in Britain, ed. G. Crossick (1977)
Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868-1939
(1981)
Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain (2009)
Popular Conservatism in Imperial London, 1868-1908 (2007)
A3
Labour and Working-class Politics before the First World War
M. Roberts
F. Coetzee
P. Joyce
J. Lawrence
M. Pugh
K. Rix
C. Stevens
R. Price
P. Waller
The significance of citizenship and community; the nature and membership of the trade union movement; the
reasons for its turn from lobbying methods to direct parliamentary representation, and the significance of the
shift from 'Lib-Lab' to 'progressive' politics; the role of class and the labour movement in voting; the coherence,
radicalism and electoral attractiveness of the Liberals' response after 1906; the significance of socialist parties
and movements before 1914; the place of politics in working-class life before the First World War.
*Robert Tressell
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914/1955: Penguin, 2004)
Introductory/General
E. Biagini (ed.)
E. Biagini &
A. Reid (eds.)
P.F. Clarke
P. Joyce
A. Thorpe
Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identity in the British
Isles, 1865-1931 (1996)
Currents of Radicalism (1991)
‘The Electoral Sociology of Modern Britain’, History (1972)
Work, Society and Politics: the Culture of the later Victorian Factory (1980)
A History of the British Labour Party (1997)
The State, Trade Unionism & Class Law
E.F. Biagini
C.G. Hanson
‘Trade Unions and Popular Political Economy, 1860-1880’, HJ, xxx (1987)
‘Craft Unions, Welfare Benefits and the Case for Trade Union Reform, 1865-75', EcHR,
xxviii (1975) and debate ibid., xxix (1976)
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A. Reid
P. Johnson
N. McCord
D. Powell
J. Spain
J. Thompson
C. Wrigley
The Tide of Democracy: Shipyard Workers and Social Relations in Britain, 1870-1950
(2010), part 3.
‘Class Law in Victorian England’, P&P, 141 (Nov. 1993)
‘Taff Vale Revisited’, History, lxxviii (1993)
British Politics and the Labour Question, 1868-1990 (1992)
‘Trade Unions, Gladstonian Liberals and the Labour Law Reforms of 1875,’ in Biagini
and Reid, Currents of Radicalism (1991)
‘The Genesis of the 1906 Trades Disputes Act: Liberalism, Trade Unions and the Law’,
TCBH, ix (1998)
A History of British Industrial Relations, 1875-1914 (1982)
Working-class Life & Politics
A. August
M. Brodie
T. Griffiths
G. Stedman Jones
J. Lawrence
K. McClelland
R. McKibbin
M. Pugh,
A. Reid
M. Savage &
A. Miles
P. Thane
‘A Culture of Consolation? Rethinking Politics in Working-class London, 1870-1914’,
HR 72 (2001)
The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London, 1885-1914 (2004)
The Lancashire Working Classes, c. 1880-1930 (2001)
‘Working-class Politics and Working-class Culture 1850-1914’, in his Languages of
Class (1983) (also in JSH [1974])
‘The British sense of class’ JCH (2000)
‘Some Thoughts on Work and the “Representative” Artisan, 1850-1880’ Gender &
History (1989)
‘Why was There no Marxism in Great Britain?,’ EHR, xcix (1984), reprinted in
McKibbin, Ideologies of Class (1990)
‘Working-class Experience and State Social Welfare: Old Age Pensions Reconsidered’,
HJ, 45 (2002)
‘Politics and Economics in the Formation of the British Working Class’, SH, 3 (1978)
The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940 (1994)
‘The Working Class and State “Welfare” in Britain, 1880-1914,’ HJ, 27 (1984)
The Origins and Early Development of the Labour Party
‘James Ramsay MacDonald and the Problem of the Independence of the Labour Party’,
JMH (1970)
R. McKibbin
The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-1924 (1974)
J. Scott
‘Labourism Revisited’: W. J. Davis, Working-Class Culture, and Trade Unionist Politics
in Birmingham, 1892–1906, Midland History (2013)
F. Bealey & H. Pelling Labour and Politics, 1900-1906 (1958)
S. Berger
‘The Decline of Liberalism and the Rise of Labour: the Regional Approach’ PH (1993)
S. Berger,
The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats, 1900-31 (1994)
M. Bevir
The Making of British Socialism (2011)
K.D. Brown
The First Labour Party, 1906-1914 (1985)
D. Howell
British Workers and the Independent Labour Party, 1888-1906 (1983)
J. Lawrence
Speaking for the People (1998) chs 2, 3, 6 & 9
J. Lawrence
‘The Complexities of Progressivism,’ Midland History (1999)
K. Laybourn
‘The Rise of Labour and the Decline of Liberalism’ History (1995)
K. Laybourn
‘The Failure of Socialist Unity in Britain, c.1893-1914’ TRHS (1994)
D. Marquand
Ramsay MacDonald (1977) chs 3-8
A.M. McBriar
Fabian Socialism and English Politics, 1884-1918 (1962)
H. Pelling
Origins of the Labour Party (2nd edn, 1965)
D. Powell
‘The New Liberalism and Labour’, HJ (1986)
S. Stanley Holton
Feminism and Democracy: Women's Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900-18
(1986)
R. McKibbin
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S. Yeo
‘The Development of British Socialism, 1900-1918’ in E. Green (ed.) An Age of
Transition: British Politics, 1880-1914 (1997) [PH special edn]
British democracy and Irish nationalism, 1876-1906 (2007), chs 6 and 7
Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-18 (1990)
Socialists, Liberals and Labour: Struggle for London, 1885-1914 (1967)
From Radicalism to Socialism: Men and Ideas in the Formation of Fabian Socialist
Doctrines, 1881-1891 (1975)
‘A New Life: the Religion of Socialism in Britain, 1883-1896,’ HWJ, 4 (1977)
A4
New Liberalism and Edwardian Politics
D. Tanner
E.F. Biagini
D. Tanner
P. Thompson
W. Wolfe
The role of nonconformity and other sectional elements in Liberal party organisation; the continuing importance
of ‘faddism’ in promoting a Liberal legislative agenda; what was new about the New Liberalism, both as a
political theory and as an electoral strategy for the Edwardian Liberal Party; the extent of increased central
government activity; the reasons for the Liberal electoral revival from 1902; the politics of collectivism and
social reform, and its popularity; the problems of sustaining popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain. See
also reading list B6.
*M. & E. Brock (eds.) H.H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley (1985)
*H.G. Wells
The New Machiavelli (1911; Penguin paperback)
Introductory/General
M. Bentley
E.F. Biagini
E.H.H. Green
J.R. Hay
A. O’Day (ed.)
D. Powell
G.R. Searle
P. Thane
The Climax of Liberal Politics, 1868-1918 (1987)
British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876-1906 (2007), chs 6 & 7
‘An Age of Transition: An Introductory Essay’, in E.H.H. Green (ed.) An Age of
Transition: British Politics, 1880-1914 (1997) [sp. edn of PH]
The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms (1975)
The Edwardian age: Conflict and Stability (1979)
The Edwardian Crisis. Britain, 1901-14 (1996)
The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929 (1992)
The Foundations of the Welfare State (1996)
Precedents
M.A. Crowther
M. Daunton
G. Stedman Jones
G. Sutherland (ed)
A.S. Wohl
A.S. Wohl
‘Family Responsibility and State Responsibility in Britain before the Welfare State,’ HJ,
(1982)
Trusting Leviathan. The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1799-1914 (2001)
Outcast London (1972)
Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth-century Government (1972)
The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London (1977)
Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain (1983)
The Edwardian Politics of Social Reform
M. Daunton
G. Finlayson
S.J.D. Green &
R.C. Whiting (eds.)
J. Harris
J. Harris
J. Harris
‘Payment and Participation: Welfare and State Formation in Britain, 1900-51’, P&P,
150 1996)
Citizen, State and Social Welfare in Britain, 1830-1990 (1994)
The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain (1996)
Unemployment and Politics, 1886-1914 (1972)
‘Political Thought and the Welfare State,’ P&P, 135, (May 1992)
‘The Transition to High Politics in English Social Policy 1880-1914,’ in M. Bentley and
J. Stevenson (eds), High and Low Politics in Modern Britain, (1983)
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E.P. Hennock
A.M. McBriar
M. Pugh
G.R. Searle
B. Semmel
P. Thane
D. Vincent
P. Waller
British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance (1987)
An Edwardian Mixed Doubles: the Bosanquets versus the Webbs (1988)
‘Working-class Experience and State Social Welfare: Old Age Pensions Reconsidered’,
HJ, 45 (2002)
The Quest for National Efficiency (1971)
Imperialism and Social Reform, 1895-1914 (1980)
‘The Working Class and State “Welfare” in Britain, 1880-1914,’ HJ, 27 (1984)
Poor Citizens: the State and the Poor in the Twentieth Century (1991)
‘Altercation Over Civil Society: the Bitter Cry of the Edwardian Middle Classes’, in J.
Harris (ed.), Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions (2003)
New Liberal Politics
G.L. Bernstein
G.L. Bernstein
N. Blewett
P.F. Clarke
P.F. Clarke
S. Collini
M. Freeden
A. Howe
J. Lawrence
H.C.G. Matthew
B.K. Murray
A. Offer
I. Packer
I. Packer
M. Pugh
P. Readman
F. Trentmann
‘Liberalism and the Progressive Alliance in the Constituencies, 1900-1914’ HJ (1983)
Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England (1986)
The Peers, the Parties and the People: the General Elections of 1910 (1972)
Lancashire and the New Liberalism (1971)
Liberals and Social Democrats (1978)
Liberalism and Sociology: L.T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England, 18801914 (1979)
The New Liberalism (1978)
‘Towards the “Hungry Forties”: Free Trade in Britain c. 1880-1906’, in E. Biagini (ed.),
Citizenship and Community (1996)
‘The Complexities of Progressivism,’ Midland History (1999)
The Liberal Imperialists (1973)
The People's Budget, 1909-10 (1980)
Property and Politics: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in
England 1870-1914 (1981)
Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land (2001)
‘Religion and the New Liberalism,’ JBS (2003)
Lloyd George (1988)
‘The Liberal Party and Patriotism in Early Twentieth Century Britain’, TCBH (2001)
Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption & Civil Society (2008) chs 1-4
The Crisis of the Edwardian Right
F. Coetzee
E.H.H. Green
E.H.H. Green
D.M. Jackson
A. Sykes
A. Sykes
A. Sykes
D. Thackeray
D. Thackeray
T. Villis
For Party or Country: Nationalism and Popular Conservatism (1990)
‘Radical Conservatism: the Electoral Genesis of Tariff Reform,’ HJ (1985)
The Crisis of Conservatism, 1880-1914 (1995)
Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain (2009)
Tariff Reform and British Politics, 1903-13 (1979)
‘The Radical Right and the Crisis of Conservatism Before World War One,’ HJ (1983)
‘Radical Conservatism and the Working Classes in Edwardian England: the Case of the
Workers Defence Union,’ EHR (1998)
‘Rethinking the Edwardian Crisis of Conservatism’, HJ (2011)
Conservatism for the Democratic Age: Conservative Cultures and the Challenge of
Mass Politics in early Twentieth-century England (2013) chs 1-3
Reaction and the Avant-garde: The Revolt against Liberal Democracy in early 20th
Century Britain (2006)
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Party Realignment, c.1910-1924
Why the Liberal Party declined so precipitately between 1910 and 1924, and how the Labour Party displaced it
in Parliament and the constituencies; the course of politics during the First World War and the significance of the
franchise changes of 1918; how Conservatism adapted to the challenges of 1914-24; why the ‘progressive
alliance’ collapsed in British politics; the impact of Irish independence on British politics.
*George Dangerfield
The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-14 (1936; various edns)
Introductory/General
N. Blewett
M. Dawson
A. Jackson
The Peers, the Parties and the People: the General Elections of 1910 (1972)
‘Money and the Real Impact of the Fourth Reform Act,’ HJ (1992)
The Two Unions. Ireland, Scotland and the survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007
(2012)
J. Lawrence & M. Taylor (eds) Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain (1997)
M. Pugh
Electoral Reform in Peace and War 1906-18 (1978)
M. Pugh
‘Domestic politics’ in S. Constantine, The First World War in British History (1995)
J. Turner
British Politics and the Great War (1992) chs 10 & 11
K.D. Wald
Crosses on the Ballot: Patterns of British Voter Alignment since 1885 (1983)
Liberal Decline (See also reading list A6)
M. Bentley
G.L. Bernstein
P.F. Clarke
B. Doyle
M. Dawson
M. Hart
R. McKibbin
K.O. Morgan
I. Packer
G.R. Searle
T. Wilson
The Climax of Liberal Politics, 1868-1918 (1987)
Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England (1986)
Lancashire and the New Liberalism (1971)
‘Urban Liberalism and the “Lost Generation”: politics and middle-class culture in
Norwich, 1900-1935,’ HJ (1995)
‘Liberalism in Devon & Cornwall, 1910-31: “the Old-time Religion”’ HJ (1995)
‘The Liberals, the War and the Franchise,’ EHR (1982)
Parties and People: England, 1914-1951 (2010)
Consensus and Disunity: the Lloyd George Coalition Government, (1979)
Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land (2001)
The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929 (1992)
The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-35 (1966)
The Rise of Labour (See also reading lists A3 & A7)
M. Bentley
M. Childs
J. Davis
K. Laybourn
H.C.G. Matthew et al
R. McKibbin,
R. McKibbin
D. Tanner
D. Tanner
C. Wrigley
The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 (1977)
‘Labour Grows Up: the Electoral System, Political Generations and British Politics,
1890-1929’, TCBH, vi (1995)
‘Slums and the Vote’, HR, lxix (1991)
‘The Rise of Labour and the Decline of Liberalism: the State of the Debate,’ History,
lxxx (1995).
‘The Franchise Factor in the Rise of the Labour Party’, EHR (1976) (reprinted in
McKibbin, Ideologies of Class - see also P.F. Clarke’s reply, EHR [1977])
The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-24 (1975)
‘Why was There no Marxism in Great Britain?’, EHR (1984)
‘The Electoral System, the Fourth Reform Act, and the Rise of Labour’, BIHR (1983)
Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-18 (1990)
Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour 1918-22 (1990)
Conservative Revival (See also reading lists A4 & A6)
N. Keohane
The Party of Patriotism: the Conservative Party and the First World War (2010), chas 2
and 5
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D.H. Close
D. Jarvis
J. Ramsden
D. Evans
D. Thackeray
A6
‘The Collapse of Conservative Resistance to Democracy: Conservatives, Adult Suffrage
and Second Chamber Reform’, HJ xx (1977)
‘The Shaping of Conservative Electoral Hegemony, 1918-1939’, in J. Lawrence and M.
Taylor, Party, State and Society (1997)
The Age of Balfour and Baldwin (1978)
‘The Conservatives and the Redefinition of Unionism, 1912-21’, TCBH, 9 (1998)
Conservatism for the Democratic Age: Conservative Cultures and the Challenge of
Mass Politics in the Early Twentieth Century (2013) chs 4-10
Conservative hegemony?
The nature of inter-war Conservatism, especially as practised by Baldwin; the extent to which the media
popularised an ‘Establishment’ definition of politics; the dimensions of the political and economic crisis of 1931
and the extent to which this was a watershed in British politics; the character of the ‘National’ Government [see
also List A5].
*Stanley Baldwin
On England (1926; Penguin 1937)
*Malcolm Muggeridge The Thirties (1940; paperback 1989)
Introductory/General
C. Cook,
M. Cowling
D. Jarvis
The Age of Alignment: Electoral Politics, 1922-1929 (1975)
The Impact of Labour, 1920-24 (1971)
‘The Shaping of Conservative Electoral Hegemony, 1918-1939’, in J. Lawrence and M.
Taylor (eds), Party, State and Society (1997)
G. Peele & C. Cook
The Politics of Reappraisal, 1918-1939 (1975)
J. Stevenson & C. Cook Britain in the Depression: Society and Politics 1929-1939 (1994)
G. Thomas
‘Political modernity and “government” in the construction of inter-war democracy’ in L.
Beers & G. Thomas (eds) Brave New World (2011)
Stanley Baldwin and Inter-war Conservatism
P. Addison
S. Ball
S. Ball & I. Holliday
S. Ball
S. Ball
D. Jarvis
D. Jarvis
A. Light
P. Mandler
N. McCrillis
R. McKibbin
R. McKibbin
S. Nicholas
J. Parry
M. Pugh
J. Ramsden
B. Schwarz
Churchill on the Home Front 1900-55 (1992)
Baldwin and the Conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929-1931 (1988)
Mass Conservatism: The Conservatives and the Public since the 1880s (2002)
‘Democracy and the rise of Labour: 1924 and 1929-1931’, in A. Seldon & S. Ball, (eds),
Recovering Power: The Conservatives in Opposition Since 1867 (2005)
Portrait of a Party: the Conservative Party in Britain, 1918-1945 (2013)
‘British Conservatism and Class Politics in the 1920s,’ EHR, cxi (1996)
‘Mrs Maggs and Betty: the Conservative Appeal to Women Voters in the 1920s’,
TCBH, v (1994)
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars (1991)
The English national Character (2006), ch. 5.
The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage: Popular Conservatism,
1918-1929 (1998)
‘Class and Conventional Wisdom’ in McKibbin, Ideologies of Class (1990)
Parties and People, England 1914-1951 (2010)
‘The Construction of a National Identity: Stanley Baldwin, “Englishness” and the Mass
Media in Inter-war Britain’ in M. Francis & I Zweiniger-Bargielowska (eds), The
Conservatives and British Society (1996)
‘The Quest for Leadership in Unionist Politics, 1886-1956’, PH (1993)
‘The Rise of Labour and the Political Culture of Conservatism 1890-1945’, History
(2002)
The Age of Balfour and Baldwin (1978)
‘The Language of Constitutionalism’ in Formations of Nations and Peoples (1984, no
editor)
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G. Thomas
P. Williamson
P. Williamson
‘The Conservative Party and Welsh Politics in the Inter-War Years’, EHR (2013)
‘The Doctrinal Politics of Stanley Baldwin’, in M. Bentley, ed., Public and Private
Doctrine: Essays in British History (1993)
Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values (1999)
The Crisis of 1931 and Its Legacy
H. McCarthy
S. Ball
S. Ball
M. Cowling
D. Dutton
R. McKibbin
D. Marquand
S. Pedersen
N. Smart
T. Stannage
A. Thorpe
P. Williamson
P. Williamson
D. Wrench
A7
‘Whose democracy? Histories of British political culture between the wars', HJ (2012),
pp. 221-38
‘The Conservative party and the Formation of the National Government’ HJ (1986)
‘The National Government, 1931: Crisis and Controversy' [Review article] PH (1993)
The Impact of Hitler: British Politics and British Policy, 1933-1940 (1975)
‘1932: a Neglected Date in the History of the Decline of the British Liberal Party’,
TCBH (2003)
Parties and People: England, 1914-1951 (2010), ch. 3
Ramsay MacDonald (1977)
‘From National Crisis to “National Crisis”: British Politics, 1914-1931’ JBS, 33 (1994)
The National Government, 1931-40 (1999)
Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: the General Election of 1935 (1980)
The British General Election of 1931 (1991)
National Crisis and National Government, 1926-32 (1992)
‘Christian Conservatives and the Totalitarian Challenge’, EHR, 115 (2000)
‘“Cashing in”: the parties and the National Government, August 1931-September 1932,’
JBS (1984)
Labour’s Long March, 1914-1939
The character of inter-war Labour politics; the accommodation of Labour in the political system; the battle
between reformism and ‘direct action’; the extent to which Labour sought to transcend class and sectionalism;
alternatives to MacDonald’s strategy; the political impact of the General Strike; the origins and consequence of
the 1931 split; the prospects of a Labour victory before the Second World War; the factors helping to contain
political extremism in inter-war Britain [see also lists A3 & A5]
*Ellen Wilkinson, Clash! (1926) [novel of the General Strike]
Introductory/General
C. Cook,
R. McKibbin,
D. Tanner
D. Tanner
A. Thorpe
The Age of Alignment: Electoral Politics, 1922-1929 (1975)
Parties and People, England 1914-1951 (2010)
‘Class Voting and Radical Politics: the Liberal and Labour Parties, 1910-1931’ in
Lawrence & Taylor (eds), Party, State and Society (1997)
‘The Politics of the Labour Movement, 1900-1939,' in C. Wrigley (ed.), A Companion
to Early Twentieth-Century Britain (2003)
A History of the British Labour Party (1997)
Leadership, Organisation & Policy
B. Barker (ed.)
S. Berger
A. Bullock
C. Griffiths
D. Howell
R.W. Lyman
R. Miliband
N. Owen
B. Pimlott
Ramsay MacDonald’s Political Writings (1972)
The British Labour Party and the German SPD, 1900-1931: a comparative study (1994)
The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin: vol. 1: Trade Union Leader (1960) esp. chs 5-15
Labour and the Countryside: the Politics of Rural Britain, 1918-1939 (2007)
MacDonald’s Party: Labour Identities and Crisis (2002)
The First Labour Government, 1924 (1958)
Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour 2nd ed. (1972) chs 3-7
‘MacDonald’s Parties: The Labour Party & the “Aristocratic Embrace” TCBH (2007)
Labour and the Left in the 1930s (1977)
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N. Ridell
D. Tanner
A. Thorpe
A. Thorpe
R. Toye
M. Worley
M. Worley (ed.)
M. Worley (ed.)
Labour in Crisis: the Second Labour Government, 1929-1931 (1999)
‘The Pattern of Labour Politics, 1918-1939' in D. Tanner et al (eds), The Labour Party
in Wales, 1900-2000 (2000)
‘J.H. Thomas and the Rise of Labour in Derby, 1880-1945,’ Midland History (1990)
‘ “I am in the Cabinet”: J.H. Thomas’s Decision to Join the National Government in
1931,’ HR (1991)
‘“Perfectly parliamentary”? The Labour party and the House of Commons in the interwar years’, TCBH (2014)
Labour inside the Gate: A History of the British Labour Party between the Wars (2005)
Labour’s Grass Roots: Essays on … Local Labour Parties, 1918-1945 (2005)
The Foundations of the British Labour Party: Identities, Cultures and Perspective,
1900-39 (2009) esp. chs by Beers, Catterall, Worley
Ideas, Culture & Popular Politics
‘The Anatomy of Reformism’, IRSH (1973)
Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party (2010)
‘A Model MP? Ellen Wilkinson, Gender, Politics and Celebrity Culture in Interwar
Britain’ CSH (2013)
A. Bingham
‘Representing the People? The Daily Mirror, Class and Political Culture in Inter-War
Britain’, in L. Beers & G. Thomas (eds), Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic
Nation-Building in Britain Between the Wars (2012)
P. Catterall,
‘Morality and Politics: the Free Churches and Labour between the wars’ HJ (1993)
S. Davies
Liverpool Labour: Social and Political Influences on the Development of the Labour
Party in Liverpool, 1900-1939 (1996)
S. Davies & B. Morley County Borough Elections in England & Wales, 1919-1938: A Comparative Analysis
vol. 3 [concl.] & Lawrence reviews of series: EHR [2003 & 2007]
C. Howard
‘Expectations Born to Death: Local Labour Party Expansion in the 1920s’, in J. Winter
(ed.), The Working Class in Modern British History (1983)
J. Lawrence
‘Labour and the Politics of Class, 1900-1940’, in D. Feldman & J. Lawrence (eds),
Structures and Transformations in Modern British History (2011)
S. Macintyre
‘British Labour, Marxism, and Working-Class Apathy in the 1920s’, HJ (1977)
M. Pugh
‘The Daily Mirror and the revival of Labour 1935-1945’ TCBH (1998)
M. Savage
‘The rise of the Labour party in local perspective’ JRLS (1990) UL L474.c.239
M. Savage
‘Urban Politics and the Rise of the Labour Party, 1919-1939’ in L. Jamieson & H. Corr
(eds) State, Private Life and Political Change (1990)
D. Tanner
‘Elections, Statistics and the Rise of the Labour party, 1906-1931,’ HJ (1991)
D. Tanner
‘The Labour Party and Electoral Politics in the Coalfields, 1910-1947’ and A. Taylor,
‘The Politics of Labourism in the Yorkshire Coalfield, 1926-1945’, both in A. Campbell
et al (eds) Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910-1947 (1996)
B. Barker
L. Beers
L. Beers
The Eclipse of the Extremes
N. Branson
M. Cronin, ed.
J. Lawrence
S. Macintyre
S. Macintyre
M. Pugh
M. Pugh
R. Skidelsky
A. Thorpe, ed.
A. Thorpe
C. Townshend,
R. Thurlow
G. C. Webber
History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1927-1941 (1985)
The Failure of British Fascism (1996)
‘Fascist Violence and the Politics of Public Order in Inter-war Britain’ HR (2003) &
debate with Pugh, HR (2005)
A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain, 1917-1933 (1980)
Little Moscows: Communism and Working-Class Militancy in Inter-War Britain (1980)
‘The British Union of Fascists and the Olympia Debate’, HJ, xli (1998)
Hurrah for the Blackshirts! Fascists and Fascism in Britain between the Wars (2005)
Oswald Mosley (1975)
The Failure of Political Extremism in Inter-War Britain (1989)
The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920-1943 (2000)
Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security (1993)
Fascism in Britain (1998 ed.)
The Ideology of the British Right, 1918-1939 (1986)
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M. Worley
Class against Class: The Communist Party in Britain Between the Wars (2001)
A8
Politics in the 1940s
The impact of the Second World War on British domestic politics; the utility of the concepts of ‘a People’s War’
and ‘post-war consensus’; the policies of the 1945-51 Labour governments, and their legacy; Labour’s role in the
emergence of a ‘welfare state’; contested meanings of ‘socialism’; reasons for Labour’s 1945 landslide and 1951
defeat; the extent of the erosion of GB global power and its significance; strategies to preserve British power.
*F.A. von Hayek
*H. Cornelius (dir.)
The Road to Serfdom (1945)
Passport to Pimlico (1949; 2006 DVD, [1993 VCR])
Introductory/General
B. Brivati & H. Jones (eds.)
H. Jones & M. Kandiah (eds.)
I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska
What Difference did the War Make? (1993)
The Myth of Consensus (1996)
Austerity in Britain (2000) & HJ article [1994] ‘Rationing, austerity …’
The Impact of War (see also reading list B6)
P. Addison,
P. Addison
C. Barnett
S. Brooke
R. Crowcroft
G.G. Field
G. Fry
J. Harris
K. Jefferys
J. Lawrence
R. McKibbin,
H.L. Smith (ed.)
A. Thorpe
R. Weight
The Road to 1945 (2nd edn, 1994)
‘Churchill & the Price of Victory’, in N. Tiratsoo, From Blitz to Blair (1997)
The Audit of War (1986)
Labour’s War (1992)
Attlee’s War: World War II and the making of a Labour leader (2011)
Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class (2011)
‘A reconsideration of the British general election of 1935 and the electoral revolution of
1945’, History (1991)
‘Labour’s Political and Social Thought’ in D. Tanner et al (eds) Labour’s First Century
(2000), pp. 23-31
The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940-5 (1991)
‘Labour and the Politics of Class, 1900-1940’, in D. Feldman & J. Lawrence (eds),
Structures and Transformations in Modern British History (2011)
Parties and People, England 1914-1951 (OUP, 2010)
War and Social Change: British Society in the 2nd World War (1986)
Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain, (2009)
Patriots: National identity in Britain 1940-2000 (2003), pp. 21-118
Labour in Government
C. Barnett
C. Bayly & T. Harper
J. Campbell
P. Clarke
Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities, 1945-50 (1995)
Forgotten wars. The end of Britain’s Asian Empire (2008)
Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (1987).
The last thousand days of the British Empire (2007), chapters 11-14
P. Clarke & C. Trebilcock (eds.) Understanding Decline (1997): chs. by Clarke, Harris and Alford
P. Clarke
The Cripps Version (2002)
S. Fielding et alii
‘England Arise!' The Labour Party and Popular Politics in 1940s Britain (1995)
M. Francis
Ideas and Policies under Labour, 1945-51: Building a New Britain (1997)
H. Irving
‘The Birth of a politician: Harold Wilson and the bonfires of controls, 1948-49’, TCBH
(2014)
R. Hansen
‘The politics of citizenship in 1940s Britain: the British Nationality Act’, TCBH, 10
(1999)
P. Hennessy
Never Again. Britain 1945-1951 (1992) particularly chapters 4-6 on imperialism,
foreign policy &c
K.O. Morgan
Labour in Power, 1945-51 (1984)
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K. Paul
J. Schneer
J. Tomlinson
Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the post-war era (1997)
Labour's Conscience: the Labour Left, 1945-51 (1988)
Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy. The Attlee Years, 1945-1951 (1997)
The Politics of the Welfare State
D. Edgerton
J. Harris
J. Harris
K. Jefferys
R. Toye
C. Webster
R. Whiting
Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970 (2005), ch. 2
William Beveridge (1977)
‘Enterprise and Welfare States: a Comparative Perspective’, TRHS, 5th ser., xl, (1990)
‘British Politics and Social Policy during the Second World War’, HJ, xxx (1987)
The Labour party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951 (2003)
The National Health Service: a Political History (1998)
The Labour Party and Taxation (2000)
A9
Post-war Affluence and Conservatism
The nature of the ‘affluent society’ which was identified in Britain in the 1950s; how far such sociological shifts
underwrote Conservative electoral success; whether the Conservatives had a coherent political strategy; the
extent to which the post-war Conservative Party accepted a new, more Statist post-war ‘consensus’; the role of
the Cold War in domestic politics; the reasons for Labour’s electoral defeats in 1955 and 1959, and its revived
fortunes after 1960.
* Peter Caterall
*Anthony Crosland
The Macmillan Diaries, vol. 2, 1957-1966 (2011)
The Future of Socialism (1955)
Introductory/General
V. Bogdanor &
R. Skidelsky (eds)
H. Jones &
M. Kandiah (eds)
J. Ramsden
J. Ramsden
L. Black &
H. Pemberton (eds)
The Age of Affluence 1951-64 (1970)
The Myth of Consensus (1996)
The Age of Churchill and Eden (1995)
Winds of Change: Macmillan to Heath, 1957-1975 (1996)
An Affluent Society? (2004)
Policy and Leaders
P. Addison
S. Ball
M. Bentley
A. Booth
Churchill on the Home Front 1900-55 (1992)
The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Three Friends and the World They Made (2004)
‘Liberal Toryism in the Twentieth Century,’ TRHS, 6th ser., iv (1994)
‘Inflation, Expectations and the Political Economy of Conservative Britain, 1951-64’,
HJ, (2000)
E.H.H. Green
Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the 20thC (2002) chs 6 & 7
OR his essay on ‘The Treasury Resignations of 1958’, TCBH, 11 (2000)
M. Francis & I. ZweinigerBargielowska (eds.)
The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990 (1996), Part Four
A. Gamble
The Conservative Nation (1974)
A. Gamble &
The British Party System and Economic Policy, 1945-83: Studies in Adversary Politics
S. Walkland
(1984)
P. Hennessy
The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945 (2000)
A. Howard
RAB: a Life of R.A. Butler (1987)
M. Jarvis
Conservative Governments: Morality and Social Change in Affluent Britain, 1957-64
(2005)
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J. Ramsden
D. Sandbrook
A. Seldon
& S. Ball (eds)
J. Tomlinson
J. Turner
J. Tomlinson
R. Toye
‘A Party for Owners or a Party for Earners?’, TRHS (1987) and ‘How Winston Churchill
Became “the Greatest Living Englishman”’, CBH, xii (1998)
Never had it So Good (2005) chs. 1 & 3
Conservative Century (1994)
‘Conservative Modernization, 1960-4: Too Little, Too Late?’, CBH, xi (1997)
Macmillan (1994)
‘The Decline of the Empire and the Economic “Decline” of Britain’, TCBH (2003)
‘From “Consensus” to “Common Ground”: the Rhetoric of the Post-War Settlement and
its Collapse’, JCH (2013)
Political Culture & Popular Politics
S. Ball & I. Holliday (eds) Mass Conservatism: The Conservative party and the Public (2002), chs 6-9
L. Black
The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64 (2002)
L. Black
‘The Lost World of Young Conservatism’, HJ (Dec 2008)
L. Black
Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954-70 (2010)
S. Fielding
‘Activists against “Affluence”: Labour Party Culture during the “Golden Age”, c. 19501970’, JBS (2001)
S. Fielding &
D. Tanner
‘The “Rise of the Left” Revisited: Labour Party Culture in Post-War Manchester and
Salford’, LHR (2006)
M. Francis
‘Mr Gaitskell’s Ganymede? Re-assessing Crosland’s “The Future of Socialism”’, CBH,
xi (1997)
M. Francis
‘The Labour Party: Modernisation and the Politics of Restraint’ in B.Conekin et al,
Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964 (2002)
E.H.H. Green
‘The Conservative Party, the State and the Electorate, 1945-1964’, in J. Lawrence and
M. Taylor, Party, State and Society (1997)
B. Jackson
‘Revisionism Reconsidered: “Property-owning Democracy and Egalitarian Strategy in
Post-War Britain,’ TCBH (2005)
B. Jackson
Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900-64 (2007)
J. Johnson
‘Did Organisation Really Matter? Party Organisation and Conservative electoral
Recovery, 1945-59', TCBH (2003)
T. Jones
‘“Taking Genesis out of the Bible”: Hugh Gaitskell, Clause IV and the Socialist Myth’,
CBH, xi (1997)
R. McKenzie &
A. Silver
Angels in Marble: Working-Class Conservatives in Urban England (1968)
S. Middleton
‘“Affluence” and the Left in Britain, c.1958-74’, EHR (2014)
F. Parkin
‘Working-class Conservatives: a Theory of Political Deviance’, BJS, xvii (1967)
M. Pugh
‘Popular Conservatism in Britain: Continuity and Change, 1880-1987’, JBS (1988)
I. Zweiniger‘Explaining the Gender Gap: The Conservative Party and the Women’s Vote, 1945Bargielowska
1964’, in M. Francis and I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska (eds.), The Conservatives and
British Society, 1880-1990 (1996) also her Austerity in Britain (2000)
A10
The Post-Settlement in Crisis, 1964-1979
Did Wilson’s leadership heal or temporarily conceal Labour’s post-war ideological wounds; how should we
judge the record of Labour and Conservative Governments in power between 1964 and 1979; was European
accession a response to domestic political crisis; how widespread was the sense of ‘crisis’ in 1970s Britain; why
did trade unions come to the centre of political life in this period; had social democracy failed by 1976? (see also
topic A11).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/thedecade.shtml - 3 programmes on the 1970s
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*Bernard Donoghue
Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10 (2006)
Introductory/General
L. Black, H. Pemberton &
P. Thane (eds.)
P. Clarke
D. Coates
B. Donoughue
E. Shaw
A. Thorpe
L. Black
Reassessing 1970s Britain (2013), to section 10
A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Blair (1999)
The Labour Party and the Struggle for Socialism (1975)
Prime Minister: the Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (1987)
The Labour Party since 1945: Old Labour, New Labour (1996)
A History of the British Labour Party (1997), chs. 7-9
Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954-70 (2010)
Heath & Conservatism
S. Ball & A. Seldon (eds) The Heath Government, 1970-4 (1997)
J. Campbell
Edward Heath (1992)
P. Cosgrave
The Lives of Enoch Powell (1989)
M. Francis & I. ZweinigerBargielowska (eds.)
The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990 (1996), Part Four
A. Gamble
The Conservative Nation (1974)
A. Gamble &
The British Party System and Economic Policy, 1945-83: Studies in Adversary Politics
S. Walkland
(1984)
M. Garnett
‘Planning for Power, 1964-70’ in A. Seldon & S. Ball (eds), Recovering Power (2005)
P. Hennessy
The Prime minister. The office and its holders since 1945 (2000)
M. Holmes
The Failure of the Heath Government (2nd edn, 1997)
M. Kandiah (ed.)
‘The Heath Government’ [witness seminar], CR (1995)
J. Ramsden
Winds of Change: Macmillan to Heath, 1957-1975 (1996)
J. Tomlinson
‘Conservative Modernization, 1960-4: Too Little, Too Late?’, CBH, xi (1997)
Labour in Hard Times
M. Artis & D. Cobham ‘Social Democracy in Hard Times: the Economic Record of the Labour Government,
1974-6,’ TCBH (1992)
B. Brivati
Hugh Gaitskell (1996)
K. Burk &
A. Cairncross
Goodbye, Great Britain: the 1976 IMF Crisis (1991)
CBH [Sept. 2006]
‘The Wilson Government Reconsidered’ [Special Issue]
R. Coopey, et al (eds.) The Wilson Governments, 1964-70 (1993)
A. Crines &
K. Hickson (eds)
The Unprincipled Prime Minister? Reappraising Harold Wilson (2016)
M. Daunton
Just Taxes: the Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979 (2002) ch. 9
D. Dean
‘The Race Relations Policy of the First Wilson Government’, TCBH, 11(2000)
H.M. Drucker
Doctrine and Ethos in the Labour Party (1979)
S. Fielding (ed.)
The Labour Party since 1951: Socialism and Society (1997)
G. Foote
The Labour Party's Political Thought: a History (1997 ed.)
P. Hennessy
The Prime minister. The office and its holders since 1945 (2000)
M. Holmes
The Labour Government 1974-9: Political Aims and Economic Reality (1985)
K. Middlemas
Power, Competition and the State (1986-91), intro to vols. 2 & 3
S. Middleton
‘“Affluence” and the Left in Britain, c.1958-74’, EHR (2014)
S. Middleton
‘Questionably virtuous’ LRB (Sept. 2016) review of Crines’s Wilson book
L. Minkin
The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party (1991)
K.O. Morgan
Callaghan: a Life (1997)
K.O. Morgan
Michael Foot: A Life (2007)
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K. Paul
B. Pimlott
E. Pearce
A. Seldon &
K. Hickson (eds)
E. Shaw
A.J. Reid
N. Thompson
K.M. Thorpe
A. Warde
D. Wass
R.C. Whiting
R.C. Whiting
M. Wickham-Jones
Whitewashing Britain (1997) ch. 7
Harold Wilson (1992)
Denis Healey (2002)
New Labour, Old labour: the Wilson and Callaghan Governments, 1974-79 (2004)
Discipline and Discord: the Politics of Managerial Control in the Labour Party, 195186 (1988)
United We Stand: a History of Britain’s Trade Unions (2004)
‘Economic ideas and the development of economic opinion', in R. Coopey and N.
Woodward (eds.), Britain in the 1970s: The Troubled Economy (1996)
‘The “Juggernaut Method”: the 1966 State of Emergency and the Wilson Government's
Response to the Seamen’s Strike’, TCBH (2001)
Consensus and Beyond. The Development of the Labour Party Strategy since the Second
World War (1982)
Decline to Fall: The Making of British Macro-Economic Policy and the 1976 IMF
Crisis (2008)
‘Ideology and Reform in Labour’s Tax Strategy, 1964-70’, HJ (1998)
The Labour Party and Taxation (2000)
Economic Strategy and the Labour Party (1996)
Diagnoses of Crisis
A. Black & S. Brooke
L. Black, H. Pemberton
J. Cronin
C. Hay
D. Hayter
E. Hobsbawm et al
S. Meredith
G. Stedman Jones
T. Jones
J. Thomas
‘The Labour Party, Women, and the Problem of Gender, 1951-66’, JBS, (1997)
‘The Winter of Discontent in British Politics’ PQ (2009)
New Labour’s Pasts (2004)
‘Narrating the Crisis: the Discursive Construction of the “Winter of Discontent”’,
Sociology (1996)
Fightback!: Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s (2005)
The Forward March of Labour Halted (1981)
Labours Old and New: The Parliamentary Right of the British Labour Party 1970-79
and the Roots of New Labour (2008)
‘Why is the Labour Party in a Mess?’ in Jones, Languages of Class (1983)
Remaking the Labour Party: from Gaitskell to Blair (1996)
‘“Bound in by History”: The Winter of Discontent in British Politics, 1979-2004’,
Media, Culture & Society (2007)
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A11
Thatcherism
What is meant by 'Thatcherism'; its how far its political salience was dependent on the leadership of Thatcher
herself; the success of her policies in terms of economic performance and of altering institutional structures and
political assumptions; the social constituency for Thatcherism and the reasons for Conservative electoral
predominance.
*A. Clark, Diaries (1993);
*John O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better (1998);
*M. Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (1993);
*‘Crisis, What Crisis?’ Conservative Party Election Broacast, 1979 @ BFI screenonline.
Introductory/General
R. Barker
P. Clarke
A. Gamble
A. Gamble
E.H.H. Green
P. Hennessy
B. Jackson &
R. Saunders (eds)
P. Jenkins
D. Kavanagh
D. Kavanagh
& A. Seldon (eds.)
R. Lowe
D. Marquand
P. Riddell
‘Political Ideas Since 1945, or How Long was the Twentieth Century?’ CBH, x (1996)
‘The Rise and Fall of Thatcherism’, HR 72 (1999)
'The Thatcher Myth', British Politics , 2015
Britain in Decline (4th edn, 1994)
Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the 20thC (2002) ch. 8 OR
his ‘Thatcherism: An Historical Perspective’, TRHS ix (1999)
The Prime minister. The office and its holders since 1945 (2000)
Making Thatcher's Britain (2012)
Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution (1987) is still useful – esp. chs 1, 2, 5, 8, & 13-16
Thatcherism and British Politics (1987).
The Thatcher Effect (1989)
‘The Inglorious Revolution: the Debasement of British Govt. since 1976’, TCBH (2006)
The Unprincipled Society (1988).
The Thatcher Era and its Legacy (2nd ed. 1991)
The Origins of Thatcherism
J. Campbell
R. Cockett
P. Cosgrave
A. Denham &
M. Garnett
E.J. Evans
E.H.H. Green
D. Kavanagh
Margaret Thatcher, vol. I: Grocer’s Daughter (2000) & vol.II: The Iron Lady (2003)
Thinking the Unthinkable: Think Tanks and the Economic Counter-revolution (1994)
The Lives of Enoch Powell (1989)
Keith Joseph (2001)
Thatcher and Thatcherism (2nd edition, 2004)
Thatcher (2005)
‘The Making of Thatcherism, 1974-1979’ in A. Seldon & S. Ball (eds), Recovering
Power (2005)
J. Lawrence &
F. Sutcliffe-Braithwaite ‘Margaret Thatcher and the decline of class politics' in B. Jackson & R. Saunders (eds),
Making Thatcher's Britain (2012)
S. Pugliese (ed.)
The Political Legacy of Margaret Thatcher: Freedom Regained? (2002)
R. Vinen
Thatcher’s Britain: the Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s (2009)
M. Wickham-Jones
‘Right Turn: a Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative Party Leadership
Election’, TCBH, viii (1997)
The Practice of Thatcherism
G. Alderman
CR , [Aut. 1987]
D.G. Boyce
Britain: a One-Party State? (1989)
Symposium on ‘The Thatcher years’, including L. Freedman on ‘The Falklands Factor’;
see also CR (Winter 1988), reply from Helmut Norpoth
The Falklands War (Palgrave, 2005)
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D. Butler & D. Kavanagh The British General Elections of 1979/ 1983/ 1987 (1980-87)
D. Butler et al
Failure in British Government: the Politics of the Poll Tax (1994)
D. Cannadine
Class in Britain (1998) conclusion
P. Clarke
‘Margaret Thatcher's Leadership in Historical Perspective’, PA, xlv (1992)
I. Crewe & M. Harrop Political Communications 1983 & Political Communications, 1987
B. Evans
‘Thatcherism and the British People’ in S. Ball & I. Holliday (eds), Mass Conservatism
(2002)
S. Evans
‘The Not So Odd Couple: Margaret Thatcher and One Nation Conservatism,’ CBH
(2009)
G. K. Fry
The Politics of the Thatcher Revolution (2008)
A. Gamble
The Free Economy and the Strong State (1988)
S. Hall
The Hard Road to Renewal (1988)
B. Harrison
‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, 20th Century British History, vol.5 (1994)
D. Jarvis
‘“Behind Every Great Party”: Women and Conservatism in the Twentieth Century
Britain’ in A. Vickery, Women, Privilege & Power (2001)
B. Jessop et al
Thatcherism: a Tale of Two Nations (1988)
M.J. Oliver
‘Whatever Happened to Monetarism? British Exchange Rate Policy in the 1980s’,
TCBH, viii (1997)
A. O’Shea
‘Trusting the People: How does Thatcherism Work?’ Formations (1984)
R. Samuel
‘Victorian values’ in T.C. Smout (ed.) Victorian Values (1992) [Proceedings of the
British Academy, v. 78]; reprinted in his Island Stories (1998)
R. Shepherd
The Power Brokers: the Tory Party and its Leaders (1991)
R. Skidelsky (ed)
Thatcherism (1988) (and see I. Crewe, CR, Feb. 1990)
F. Sutcliffe-Braithwaite ‘Neo-Liberalism and Morality in the Making of Thatcherite Social Policy', HJ (2012)
J. Tomlinson
‘Tale of a death exaggerated: How Keynesian policies survived the 1970s’,
Contemporary British History (2007)
H. Young
One of Us: a Biography of Margaret Thatcher (1989)
A12
Politics after Thatcher
The extent to which ‘Thatcherism’ outlived Mrs Thatcher’s premiership; the growing problems of the
Conservative Party in the 1990s; the electoral transformation of 1997, the ‘triumph of new Labour’; the
relationship between Blair’s Labour party and twentieth-century social democracy; the social bases of ‘New
Labour’ through three election victories; the reasons for New Labour’s downfall; Conservative ‘re-positioning’
and the politics of Coalition.
*Philip Gould
*Nick Jones
T. Bale
D. Butler &
D. Kavanagh
A. Geddes
& J. Tonge (eds.)
A. Jackson
S. Jenkins
D. Kavanagh
E. Robinson &
J. Twyman,
M. Scammell
The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party (1998)
Sultans of Spin: the Media and the New Labour Government (1999)
Introductory/General
The Conservatives since 1945: the drivers of party change (2012)
The British General Election of 1992/1997/2001 (1992/1997/2002)
Labour’s Landslide: the British General Election 1997 (1997)
The Two Unions. Ireland, Scotland and the survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007
(2012)
Thatcher & Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (Penguin edn, 2007)
The Re-ordering of British Politics (1997)
‘Speaking at Cross Purposes? The Rhetorical Problems of “Progressive Politics”,’
Political Studies Review, 12: 1 (2014)
Designer Politics: how Elections are Won (1995)
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Conservatism after Thatcher
B. Anderson
John Major: the Making of the Prime Minister (1991)
T. Bale
The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron (2010)
J. Critchley &
M. Halcrow
Collapse of Stout Party (1998 ed.)
I. Gilmour
Whatever Happened to the Tories? The Conservatives Since 1945 (1997)
J. Gray & D. Willetts Is Conservatism Dead? (1997)
P. Hennessy
The Prime minister. The office and its holders since 1945 (2000)
D. Hurd
Memoirs (2004)
D. Kavanagh & A. Seldon (eds.) The Major Effect (1994)
S. Lee
& M. Beech (eds)
The Conservatives under David Cameron: Built to Last? (2009)
S. Ludlam & M. Smith (eds.) Contemporary Conservatism (1996)
J. Major
John Major: The Autobiography (1999)
A. Rawnsley
The End of the Party (2010)
A. Seldon & L. Baston John Major: A Political Life (1997)
A. Seldon & M. Finn (eds) The Coalition Effect (2015) intro & conclusion
J. Turner
The Tories and Europe (2000), chs. 5-7
P. Whiteley et al
True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership (1994)
The Making of ‘New Labour’
M. Beech & S. Lee (eds) Ten Years of New Labour (2007)
B. Brivati & T. Bale (eds) New Labour in Power: Precedents and Prospects (1997)
J.E. Cronin
New Labour’s Pasts (2004)
S. Driver & L. Martell New Labour: Politics after Thatcherism (1998; 2nd edn 2006)
N. Fairclough
New Labour, New Language (2000)
S. Fielding
The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of ‘New’ Labour (2002)
A. Giddens
The Third Way and Its Critics (2000)
H. Heath, R. Jowell &
J. Curtice (eds)
Labour’s Last Chance? (1994)
R. Heffernan
New Labour and Thatcherism: Political Change in Britain (2000)
P. Jones
America and the British Left (1997)
T. Jones
Remaking the Labour Party: from Gaitskell to Blair (1996)
J. Kampfner
Blair’s Wars (2004 edn)
R. Little &
M. Wickham-Jones (eds) New Labour’s Foreign Policy (2000)
D. Marquand
The New Reckoning: Capitalism, States and Citizens (1997)
S. Meredith
‘Mr Crosland's Nightmare? New Labour and Equality in Historical Perspective,’ BJPIR
(2006) & 2007 exchange with Hickson
P. Riddell
‘The End of Clause IV’, 1994-5, CBH, xi (1997)
A. Seldon (ed.)
The Blair Effect (2001) & Blair’s Britain, 1997-2007 (2007)
A. Seldon
Blair (2004)
A. Seldon
Blair Unbound (2007)
F. Sutcliffe-Braithwaite ‘“Class” in the development of British Labour Party ideology, 1983-1997’ Archiv für
Sozialgeschichte (2013) [in English]
R. Toye
‘“The Smallest Party in History”? New Labour in Historical Perspective’, LHR (2004)
D. Tanner et al (eds)
Labour’s First Century (2000)
M. Westlake
Kinnock (200
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SECTION B ~ Themes and Issues
B1
Adjusting to Democracy: Parliament, Parties and the Constitution, 1880-1914
The effects of the Second Reform Act and subsequent constitutional changes on the political structure; the extent
of the challenge to 'parliamentary government' posed by the growth of extra-parliamentary parties and pressure
groups, and by the increasing careerism of MPs; the causes and consequences of growing tension between Lords
and Commons; the effect of these changes on the power of the Crown (the cabinet, the monarchy). See also
reading list A4.
Introductory/General
T. Gourvish & A. O’Day Later Victorian Britain (1988), chs. 5 & 6
H.J. Hanham (ed)
The Nineteenth-Century Constitution 1815-1914: Documents and Commentary (1969)
(documents)
J. Lawrence &
M. Taylor (eds)
Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (1997)
J. Vernon (ed.)
Re-reading the Constitution (1996)
B. Griffin
The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain. Masculinity, political culture and the
struggle for women’s rights (2012), part 3
Monarchy and the House of Lords
A. Adonis
N. Blewett
D. Cannadine
J. Cannon
G.H.L. Le May
E.A. Smith
D. Thompson
Making Aristocracy Work 1884-1914 (1993), chs. 5 and 7
The Peers, the Parties and the People: the General Elections of 1910 (1972), Part I
'The Last Hanoverian Sovereign?: the Victorian Monarchy in Historical Perspective', in
The First Modern Society, ed. A.L. Beier, D. Cannadine and J.M. Rosenheim (1989)
The Modern British Monarchy: a Study in Adaptation (1987)
The Victorian Constitution: Conventions, Usages and Contingencies (1979)
The House of Lords in British Politics and Society 1815-1911 (1992)
Queen Victoria: Gender and Power (1990)
Electoral Reform and the Party System
E.F. Biagini
N. Blewett
M. Cowling
C. Eustance
British democracy and Irish nationalism, 1876-1906 (2007), chapt. 4
'The Franchise in the United Kingdom, 1885-1918', P&P (1965)
1867, Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution: the Making of the Second Reform Bill (1967)
‘Protests From Behind the Grille: Gender & the Transformation of Parliament’ in E.
Green (ed.), An Age of Transition. British Politics, 1880-1914 (1997)
J. Garrard,
‘Parties, Members and Voters after 1867: a local study’, HJ (1977)
C. Hall, K. McClelland Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender & the British Reform
& J. Rendall
Act of 1867 (2000)
H.J. Hanham
Elections and Party Management (1978 edn.)
W.A. Hayes
The Background and Passage of the Third Reform Act (1982)
B.L. Kinzer
The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-century English Politics (1982)
J. Lawrence
Speaking for the People: Party, Language & Popular Politics, 1867-1914 (1998)
J. Lewis (ed.)
Before the Vote was Won: Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage (1987)
M. Pinto-Duschinsky British Political Finance, 1830-1980 (1981)
M. Pugh
Electoral Reform in War and Peace, 1906-1918 (1978)
J. Roper
Democracy and its Critics (1989)
R. Saunders
Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-1867 (2011), intro., ch.8 and epilogue
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B2
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century
Whether Britain has a 'constitution', and the extent to which its image belies the reality of the distribution of
power; the extent to which it has changed under key Prime Ministers including Lloyd George, Thatcher and
Blair; how to understand the processes of 'prime-ministerial' or cabinet government, and of the power network
centred on Whitehall; the political significance, if any, of the modern monarchy.
*Walter Bagehot
The English Constitution, intro. R.H.S. Crossman (1963; Fontana)
Introductory/General
V. Bogdanor (ed.)
P. Catterall et alii
J. Cronin
P.B. Evans et alii
B. Harrison
P. Hennessy
G. H LeMay
K. Middlemas
K. Middlemas
J. Paxman
A. Sampson
D. Vincent
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century (2003)
Reforming the Constitution. Debates in 20th Century Britain (2000)
The Politics of State Expansion (1991)
Bringing the State Back In (1985)
The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995 (1996)
The Hidden Wiring (1995)
The Victorian Constitution: Conventions, Usages and Contingencies (1979)
Politics in Industrial Society: the Experience of the British System Since 1911 (1979)
Power, Competition and the State (3 vols, on 1940-61, 1961-74, 1974-91) (published
1986-91)
Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain? (1990)
Anatomy of Britain, various eds. (1965- )
The Culture of Secrecy: Britain, 1832-1998 (1999)
Parliament and Government
S. Ball
N. Crowson et al
E. Dell
B. Donoughue
M. Hilton et al
P. Joyce
M.O. Furner &
B. Supple (eds.)
P. Hall
H. Heclo &
A. Wildavsky
P. Hennessy
A. King (ed)
J. Lawrence
B. Lenman
M. Rush
R. Toye
‘Parliament and Politics in Britain, 1900-51’, PH (1990)
NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics since 1945
(2009)
The Chancellors (1996)
Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Wilson and Callaghan (1987)
The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain (2013)
The State of Freedom: a Social History of the British State since 1800 (2013), esp. PtII
The State and Economic Knowledge (1990)
Governing the Economy (1986)
The Private Government of Public Money (1981 ed.)
The Prime minister. The office and its holders since 1945 (2000)
The British Prime Minister: a Reader (1969)
‘What is to be done with the Second Chamber?’ @
http://www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/policy-paper-50.html
The Eclipse of Parliament: Appearance & Reality in British Politics Since 1914 (1992)
The Role of the Member of Parliament since 1868: from Gentlemen to Players (2001)
‘The Rhetorical Premiership: a New Perspective on Prime Ministerial Power since
1945’, PH (2011)
Civil Service & Monarchy
D. Cannadine
J. Cannon
P. Hennessy
S. Jenkins
A. Olechnowicz (ed)
‘Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The Monarchy 1820-1977’, E.
Hobsbawm and T. Ranger eds, The Invention of Tradition (1983)
The Modern British Monarchy: a Study in Adaptation (1987)
Whitehall (1989)
Accountable to None (1995)
The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present (2008)
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T. Nairn
J. Pearson
B. Pimlott
J. Plunkett
F. Prochaska
D. Sinclair
B3
Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy (1988)
The Ultimate Family: the Making of the Royal House of Windsor (1986)
The Queen (2002 edn)
Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch (2003)
Royal Bounty: the Making of a Welfare Monarchy (1995)
Two Georges: the Making of the Modern Monarchy (1988)
Political Communication
The role of the mass communications, especially the newspaper press, in influencing the political process and
shaping popular attitudes; the impact of broadcasting and electronic media, especially film and television; the
influence of the media on voting habits, on the political agenda, and on perceptions of the role and stature of
politicians; the influence of professional marketing on late 20th-century politics.
*R. Hoggart
*B. Ingham
The Uses of Literacy (1957; Penguin 1992)
Kill the Messenger (1991)
Introductory/General
S. Anthony
Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a
Progressive Media Profession (2011)
J. Lawrence
Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (2009)
D. LeMahieu
A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind Between the
Wars (1988)
H.C.G. Matthew
‘Rhetoric and Politics in Great Britain, 1860-1950’, in P. Waller (ed.), Politics and
Social Change in Modern Britain (1987)
R. McKibbin
Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 (1998), chs. 11, 12 and conclusion.
R. Negrine
Politics and the Mass Media in Britain (2nd ed., 1994)
P. Norton & D.M. Wood Back from Westminster: British MPs and their Constituents (1993)
M. Rosenbaum
From Soapbox to Soundbite: Party Political Campaigning in Britain Since 1945 (1997)
J. Seaton & B. Pimlott The Media in British Politics (1987)
C. Seymour-Ure
The British Press and Broadcasting Since 1945 (2nd ed. 1996)
L. Beers
A. Bingham
A. Bingham
The Press
Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party (2010)
Gender, modernity, and the popular press in inter-war Britain (2004)
‘Representing the people? The Daily Mirror, class and political culture in inter-war
Britain’ in L. Beers and G. Thomas (eds), Brave new world (2011)
G. Boyce, J. Curran &
P. Wingate eds.,
Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day (1978)
M. Dawson
‘Party Politics and the Provincial Press in Early Twentieth Century England’, TCBH, ix,
(1998)
B. Franklin &
D. Murphy
What News? The Market, Politics and the Local Press (1991)
M. Hampton
Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950 (2004)
M. Harrop
‘The Press and Post-war Elections’ in I. Crewe & M. Harrop eds., Political
Communication: The General Election Campaign of 1983 (1986)
A. Jones
Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England
(1996)
S. Koss
The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain, vols. 1 and 2 (1981/1984)
H.C.G. Matthew
‘Rhetoric and Politics in Britain, 1860-1950’ in P.J. Waller (ed.), Politics and Social
Change in Modern Britain (1987)
M. Pugh
‘The Daily Mirror and the Revival of Labour 1935-45’, TCBH ix, (1998)
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C. Seymour-Ure and
P. Catterall
C. Seymour-Ure
C. Seymour-Ure
W. Shawcross
J. Thomas
J. H. Wiener (ed.)
Northcliffe’s Legacy: Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896-1996 (2000)
The press, politics and the public: an essay on the role of the national press in the
British political system (1968)
‘The Press and the Party System between the Wars’, in G. Peele & C. Cook (eds), The
Politics of Reappraisal, 1918-1939 (1975)
Rupert Murdoch: Ringmaster of the Information Circus (1992)
‘Labour, the Tabloids and the 1992 Election’, CBH, ix (1998)
Papers for the Millions: the New Journalism in Britain, 1850s to 1914 (1988)
Broadcasting and Film
A. Briggs
M. Cockerell
R. Cockett
M. Even
S. Fielding
S. Fielding
S. Fielding
S. Nicholas
S. Nicholas
J. Ramsden
J. Richards
J. Richards
P. Scannell
& D. Cardiff
T. Shaw
T. Shaw
F. Wheen
The Birth of Broadcasting (1961); The Golden Age of Wireless (1965); The War of
Words (1970); Sound & Vision (1979); Competition (1995)
Live From Number Ten: the Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television (1988)
‘The Party, publicity and the media’ in A. Seldon and S. Ball (eds), Conservative
Century (1994)
‘Television broadcasting of post-war elections’ in I. Crewe and M. Harrop (eds),
Political Communications…, 1983 (1985)
‘A Mirror for England? Cinematic Representations of Politicians and Party politics,
circa 1944-1964’, JBS (2008)
‘British Politics and Cinema’s Historical Dramas, 1929-1938’, HJ (2013)
A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page from Anthony Trollope to
‘The Thick of It’ (2014)
The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC, 1939-1945 (1997)
‘The construction of national identity: Stanley Baldwin, “Englishness” and the mass
media in inter-war Britain’ in M. Francis and I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska (eds), The
Conservatives and British Society (1996)
‘Baldwin and Film’ in N. Pronay and D.W. Spring (eds), Propaganda, Politics and
Film, 1918-45 (1982)
Film and National Identity (1997)
The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society 1930-39 (1984)
A Social History of British Broadcasting: vol. I, 1922-39 (1990)
‘Eden and the BBC During the 1956 Suez crisis’, TCBH, vi (1995)
Eden, Suez and the Mass Media (1996)
Television: a History (1985)
Political Marketing
Stuart Ball
B. Franklin
N. Jones
D. Kavanagh
M. Kinnear
P. Norris et al
R. Rose
M. Scammell
J. Street
Doles, queues and demons: British election posters from the Conservative party
archives (2012)
Packaging Politics: Political Communications in Britain’s Media Democracy 2nd ed.
(2004)
Sultans of Spin: the Media and the New Labour Government (1999)
Election campaigning: the marketing of politics (1995)
The British Voter: an Atlas and Survey since 1885 (1968)
On Message: Communicating the Campaign (1999)
Influencing Voters: A study of campaign rationality (1967)
Designer politics: how elections are won (1995)
Mass Media, Politics and Democracy (2001)
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B4
Electoral Behaviour since 1918
The nature of the electoral system; the extent to which consumerism has replaced class as the important
determinant of voting behaviour; the ‘gender gap’: the persistence of ‘third party politics’.
Introductory/General
Stuart Ball
Doles, queues and demons: British election posters from the Conservative party
archives (2012)
D. Butler & D. Stokes Political Change in Britain: the Evolution of Electoral Choice (1974)
G. Evans &
P. Norris (eds)
Critical Elections: British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective (1999)
J. Lawrence &
M. Taylor (eds)
Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (1997) (esp. intro)
P. Norris,
Electoral Change since 1945 (1997)
The Electoral System
D. Butler
P. Catterall
J. Hart
The Electoral System in Britain Since 1918 (2nd ed., 1963/1986)
‘The British Electoral System, 1885-1970’, HR 58:181 (2000)
Proportional Representation: Critics of the British Electoral System, 1820-1945 (1992)
Voting Behaviour
D. Butler
B. Campbell
P. Clarke
I. Crewe et al
I. Crewe et al
J. Curtice
J.P.D. Dunbabin
British General Elections since 1945 (1989)
The Iron Ladies: Why Do Women Vote Tory? (1987)
‘Electoral Sociology of Modern Britain,’ History, 57 (1972)
‘Partisan Realignment in Britain 1964-74’, BJPS (1977), (and Mughan, BJPS [1979])
‘Symposium: Elections and Voting Patterns’, CR, vol 2, No 4 (1988), pp. 2-17
How Britain Votes (1985)
‘British Elections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: a Regional Approach’,
EHR (1980)
The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour (1968)
‘The Changing British Electorate’ (1951-82), PQ (1982)
J. Goldthorpe
M. Harrop
A. Heath, R. Jowell &
R. Johnston et al
‘The Conservative Century? Geography and Conservative Electoral Success During the
Twentieth Century’, in D. Gilbert et al (eds), Geographies of British Modernity: Space
and Society in the Twentieth Century (2003)
S. Koss
Nonconformity in British Politics (1975)
D. Lockwood &
I. McLean
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from
Peel to Blair (2001)
W.L. Miller
Electoral Dynamics in Britain since 1918 (1977)
F. Parkin
‘Working-class Conservatives: a Theory of Political Deviance’, BJS, 17 (1967)
M. Pugh
‘Popular Conservatism in Britain: Continuity & Change, 1880-1987’, JBS 27 (1988)
R. Rose &
I. McAllister
Voters Begin to Choose: From Closed Class to Open Elections in Great Britain (1986)
B. Sarlvik & I. Crewe Decade of Dealignment: the Conservative Victory of 1979 and Electoral Trends in the
1970s (1983)
K.D. Wald
Crosses on the Ballot: Patterns of British Voter Alignment Since 1885 (1983)
R. Waller
‘The Decline of Class Voting in Great Britain?’ PH (1987)
I. Zweiniger‘Explaining the Gender Gap …. 1945-1964’, in M. Francis and I. ZweinigerBargielowska
Bargielowska (eds.), The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990 (1996)
Third Party Politics
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I. Crewe & A. King
D. Dutton
J. Stevenson
A. Sykes
B5
SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party (1995)
A History of the Liberal Party since 1900 (2nd edn, 2013)
Third Party Politics Since 1945 (1993)
The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism 1776-1998 (1997)
Women’s Political Activity since 1880
The history of British feminism; the suffrage campaign and its aftermath; women’s experiences of party politics
before and after 1918; the existence or otherwise of a ‘women’s agenda’ in politics.
*Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own (1929: Penguin, 2002)
Introductory/General
G. Bock &
P. Thane (eds)
Maternity and Gender Policies (1991), essays by Thane & Lewis
B. Caine
English Feminism, 1780-1980 (1997)
A. Vickery (ed.)
Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present (2001)
I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2001), chs. 16-18
Early Feminism and the Suffrage Campaign
J. Bush
K. Cowman
B. Griffin
B. Griffin
N. Gullace
B. Harrison
P. Hollis
S.S. Holton
S.S. Holton
P. Jalland
S.K. Kent
P. Levine
J. Lewis (ed.)
J. Lewis
J. Liddington &
J. Norris
J. Liddington &
E. Crawford
J. Lawrence
M. Pugh
M. Pugh
K.Y. Sternberg
Women Against the Vote: Female Anti-suffragism in Britain, (2007)
‘“Incipient Toryism”? The Women's Social and Political Union and the Independent
Labour Party, 1903-14’, HWJ (2002)
‘Class, Gender and Liberalism in Parliament, 1868-1882: the Case of the Married
Women’s Property Acts’, HJ, xlvi (2003)
The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain. Masculinity, political culture and the
struggle for women’s rights (2012)
‘The Blood of Our Sons’: Men, Women and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship
during the First World War’ (2002)
Separate Spheres: the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage in Britain (1978)
Ladies Elect: Women in Local Government (1988)
Feminism and Democracy: Women's Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900-18
(1986)
‘The women’s movement, politics and citizenship’ in I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska (ed.),
Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2001)
Women, Marriage and Politics, 1860-1914 (1986)
Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860-1914 (1987)
Victorian Feminism (1987)
Before the Vote was Won: Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage (1987)
Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England (1991)
One Hand Tied Behind Us: the Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement (1978)
'Women do not count, neither shall they be counted': Suffrage, Citizenship and the
Battle for the 1911 Census , History Workshop Journal (2011)
‘Contesting the Male Polity: the Suffragettes and the Politics of Disruption in
Edwardian Britain’, in A.Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and Power (2001)
The March of the Women. A Revisionist History of the Suffrage Campaign (2000)
The Pankhursts (2002)
‘Working-Class Women in London Local Politics, 1894-1914’, TCBH, 9 (1998)
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D. Thackeray
'Home and politics: women and conservative activism in early twentieth-century Britain'
JBS (2010)
Feminism After 1918
O. Banks
A. Black &
S. Brooke
David Howell
O. Banks
E. Breitenbach &
P. Thane
J. Gottlieb &
R. Toye (eds)
D. Jarvis
S.K. Kent
H. McCarthy
S. Pedersen
S. Pedersen
S. Pedersen
M. Pugh
H. Smith (ed.)
P. Thane
P. Thane
The Politics of British Feminism, 1918-1970 (1993)
'The Labour Party, women, and the problem of gender, 1951-66', JBS, 36 (1997)
MacDonald's Party (2002), ch. 20-1
The Politics of British Feminism, 1918-1970 (1993)
Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century (2010)
The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender and Politics in Britain (2013)
'Mrs Maggs and Betty: the Conservative appeal to women voters in the 1920s', TCBH,
Vol. 5.2 (1994)
Making Peace: the Reconstruction of Gender in Inter-war Britain (1993)
'Parties, voluntary associations and democratic politics in interwar Britain', HJ (2007)
‘Gender, Welfare and Citizenship in Britain during the Great War’ AmHR, xcv (1990)
Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State (1993)
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (2004)
Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-59 (1992)
British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990)
'The women of the British Labour Party and feminism 1906-45', in H.L. Smith (ed.),
British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990)
‘What Difference did the Vote Make?’, in A. Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and
Power (2001) & reprinted in HR (2003)
Women and Party Politics
S. Childs
C. Collette
K. Cowman
M. Francis
P. Graves
D. Jarvis
D. Jarvis
P. Norris
M. Pugh
A. Seldon &
S. Ball (eds)
D. Tanner
J. Turner
L. Walker
B6
‘The New Labour women MPs in the 1997 British Parliament: issues of recruitment and
representation’, Women’s History Review, 9, 1 (2000)
For Labour and For Women: Women’s Labour League, 1906-18 (1989)
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother (2004)
‘Labour and Gender’, in D. Tanner et alii, Labour’s First Century (2000)
Labour Women: Women in British Working Class Politics 1918-39 (1994)
‘The Conservative Party and the Politics of Gender, 1900-1939’, in M. Francis & I.
Zweiniger-Bargielowska (eds.) The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990
(1996)
‘“Behind Every Great Party”: Women and Conservatism in 20th century Britain’, in A.
Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and Power (2001)
‘Gender: a Gender-Generation Gap?’ in G. Evans & P. Norris, Critical Elections (1999)
Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-59 (1992)
Conservative Century (1994) ch. 16
‘Gender, civic culture and politics in South Wales: explaining Labour Municipal Policy,
1918-1939’ in M. Worley (ed.), Labour’s Grass Roots (2005)
‘Sex, Age and the Labour Vote in the 1920s’, in P. Denley et al (eds), History and
Comuting II (1989)
‘Party Political Women: a Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose
League, 1890-1914’, in J. Rendall (ed.) Equal or Different? Women’s Politics 18001914 (1987)
War, State and Society, 1900-1945
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The impact of world war upon society; mobilisation and the role of the state; conscription and pacifism; grand
strategy and war aims; civil-military relations; Lloyd George and Churchill as war leaders; press and
propaganda; mortality and remembrance.
*Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth (1933: Virago, 2004)
*Noel Coward & David Lean (dirs.)
In Which We Serve (1942: 2002 DVD/1998 VCR)
M. Daunton
P. Dewey
J. Harris
M.R. Higonnet et al
Introductory/General
Just Taxes. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979 (2002)
War and Progress: Britain, 1914-1945 (1997)
‘Society and State in the 20thC Britain’ in F.M.L. Thompson, Cambridge Social History
of Britain vol. 3 (1990)
Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (1987)
The Boer War
P. Laity
K.O. Morgan
D. Omissi &
A.S. Thompson (eds.)
T. Pakenham
R. Price
P.A. Readman
P. Warwick &
S.B. Spies (ed.)
The British peace movement 1870-1914 (2001)
‘The Boer War and the media (1899-1902)’ 20th Century British History, 13:1 (2002)
The impact of the South African War (2002)
The Boer War (New York, 1979)
An Imperial War and the British Working Class: Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions
to the Boer War 1899-1902 (1972)
‘The Conservative Party, patriotism, and British politics: the case of the General
Election of 1900', Journal of British Studies, 40:1 (2001)
The South African War: The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (1980)
First World War (see also reading list A5)
R. Adams & P. Poirier
J.M. Bourne
K. Burk (ed.)
K. Burk
B. Bushaway
M. Ceadel
S. Constantine et al
G.J. DeGroot
D. French
A. Gregory
J. Grigg
N. Gullace
J. Lawrence
J. Lawrence
A. Marwick
A. Offer
C. Pennell
D. Reynolds
J. Turner (ed.)
A. Wilkinson
T. Wilson
J. Winter
The Conscription Controversy, 1900-18 (1987)
Britain and the Great War (1989)
War and the State (1982)
Britain, America and the Sinews of War, 1914-18 (1985)
‘Name upon name’ in Roy Porter (ed.), Myths of the English (1988)
Pacifism in Britain, 1914-45 (1980)
The First World War in British History (1995)
Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War (1996)
British Strategy and War Aims, 1914-16 (1986)
The Silence of Memory (1994)
Lloyd George: vol. 3, From Peace to War, 1912-16 (1985)
“The Blood of Our Sons”: men, women and the renegotiation of British Citizenship
during the Great War (2002)
‘Forging a Peaceable Kingdom: War, Violence and Fear of Brutalisation in Post-First
World War Britain', JMH (2003)
‘The transformation of British public politics after the First World War’, P&P (2006)
The Deluge (1965; 2nd ed. 1991)
The First World War: an Agrarian Interpretation (1989)
A Kingdom United. Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in
Britain and Ireland (2012)
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century (2013)
Britain and the First World War (1988)
The Church of England and the First World War 1978)
The Myriad Faces of War (1988)
The Great War and the British People (1985)
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Second World War (see also reading lists A8 and B7)
P. Addison
M. Balfour
C. Barnett
R. Blake &
W. R. Louis (eds)
B. Brivati et al
A. Calder
A. Calder
J. Charmley
D. Edgerton
J. Harris
C. Ponting
D. Reynolds
S. Rose
B7
The Road to 1945 (1975)
Propaganda in War, 1939-45 (1979)
The Audit of War (1986)
Churchill (1993)
What Difference did the War Make? (1993)
The People's War (1969)
The Myth of the Blitz (1991)
Churchill: the End of Glory (1993)
Warfare State. Britain, 1920-1970 (2006)
‘Great Britain: the People's War?’ in D. Reynolds et al., Allies at War (1994)
1940: Myth and Reality (1990)
Rich Relations: the American Occupation of Britain (1995)
Which People’s War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945
(2003)
Keynes, Economic Policy and the State
What we mean by ‘Keynesian’ policies; how far they were unique to J.M. Keynes and how appropriate as a
political strategy for managing the economy; arguments over the economic role of the state; why Keynesianism
was resisted before the Second World War, then ostensibly adopted, and with what implications for post-war
politics.
*J.M Keynes
Essays in Persuasion (1930 etc) for 'The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill'
(1925) and 'Can Lloyd George Do It?' (1929)
Introductory/General
A. Booth
P. Clarke
P. Clarke
P. Clarke
J. Cronin
E.H.H. Green &
D. Tanner (eds)
M. Furner &
B. Supple (eds.)
P. Hall (ed.)
R. Middleton
G. Peden
G. Peden
J. Tomlinson
British Economic Policy, 1931-49: Was There a Keynesian Revolution? (1989)
Keynes. the twentieth century most influential economist (2009)
‘Keynes in History’ History of Political Economy, xxvi (1994)
‘The Historical Keynes and the History of Keynesianism’ in D Cannadine and T
Blanning (eds.) History and Biography (1996)
The Politics of State Expansion (1991)
The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the
Reception of Economic Debate (2007)
The State and Economic Knowledge (1990)
The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism Across Nations (1989)
Charlatans or Saviours? Economists and the British Economy from Marshall to Meade
(1998)
Keynes, the Treasury and British Economic Policy (1988)
'Economic knowledge and the state in modern Britain' in S.J.D. Green and R.C. Whiting
(eds.), The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain (1996)
Public Policy and the Economy since 1900 (1990)
Inter-War Debates
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A. Booth & M. Pack
P. Clarke
E. Durbin
W.R. Garside
W.R. Garside
B. Jackson
R. McKibbin
R. Middleton
D. Moggridge
D. Ritschel
R. Skidelsky
R. Skidelsky
Employment, Capital and Economic Policy, 1918-39 (1985)
The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-36 (1988)
New Jerusalems (1985)
British Unemployment 1919-39: a Study in Public Policy (1991)
‘Party Politics, Political Economy and British Protectionism, 1919-32’, History (1998)
‘At the Origins of Neo-Liberalism: the Free Economy and the Strong State, 1930-1947’,
HJ (2010)
‘The Economic Policy of the Second Labour Government’, P&P (1975)
‘British monetary and fiscal policy in the 1930s', Oxford Review of Economic Policy
(2010)
John Maynard Keynes: an Economist's Biography (1992)
The Politics of Planning: the Debate on Economic Planning in Britain in the 1930s
(1997)
Politicians and the Slump (1994 ed.)
John Maynard Keynes, vol. i, 1883-1920 (1983) and vol. ii, 1920-37 (1992)
Policy After 1939
S. Brooke
S. Brooke
A. Cairncross
K. Thorpe
P. Sloman
J. Tomlinson
J. Tomlinson
J. Tomlinson
R. Toye
R. Toye
B8
‘Problems of "Socialist Planning": Evan Durbin and the Labour Government of 1945,’
HJ, xxxiv, (1991)
‘Revisionists and Fundamentalists: the Labour Party and Economic Policy during the
Second World War,’ HJ, xxxii (1989)
Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy, 1945-51 (1985).
‘“Statistical Floodlighting”? The Unpublished Economic Surveys’, 1946-7, CBH, xi
(1997)
The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 (2015)
Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy, 1945-51 (1996)
Employment Policy: the Crucial Years, 1939-57 (1987)
‘Re-inventing the Moral Economy in Post-War Britain’, HR (2011)
The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951 (2003)
‘The Labour Party and Keynes’ in E.H.H. Green and D. Tanner (eds), The Strange
Survival of Liberal England (2007)
Ireland, 1880-1914
The formulation of Nationalist grievances over land and religion in Ireland; the use of parliamentary channels to
seek redress; the extent to which British politicians understood the problems of Ireland; Parnellite politics and
the Irish Parliamentary Party; the rise of intractable Unionist opposition to Home Rule, centred increasingly on
Ulster.
*G.B. Shaw
Films:
John Bull's Other Island (1903)
The Irish R.M, Acorn Videos, based on the Somerville & Ross novels
Introductory
P. Bew
R. English
R Foster
K.T. Hoppen
J. Lee
Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789-2006 (2007)
Irish Freedom. The history of nationalism in Ireland (2006) and the counter-revisionist
response, B. O’Leary, ‘Cuttlefish, cholesterol and Saoirse’, Field Day Review, 3 (2007)
187-203
Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988)
Elections, Politics and Society in Ireland 1832-85 (1984)
The Modernisation of Irish society 1848-1918 (1973)
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P. Bew
P. Bew
P. Bew
E.F. Biagini
E.F. Biagini
D.G. Boyce (ed)
D.G. Boyce &
A. O’Day (eds)
D.G. Boyce &
A. O’Day (eds)
P. Buckland
F. Callanan
F. Campbell
F. Campbell
T. Dunne
R.F. Foster
P. Gibbon
J. Holmes &
D. Urquhart (eds.)
A. Jackson
A. Jackson
D.E. Jordan
F. Lane &
D Ơ Drisceoil
M. Luddy
Nationalism and Unionism
Enigma. A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell (2011)
Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland 1890-1910 (1987)
Ideology and the Irish Question (1994)
British democracy and Irish nationalism, 1876-1906 (2007), chas 3 and 5
‘The Third Home Rule Bill in British history’, in G.Doherty (ed.), The Home Rule
Crisis, 1912-14 (2014), pp.412-42.
The Revolution in Ireland 1879-1923 (1988)
Parnell in Perspective (1991)
The Ulster crisis 1885-1921(2006)
Irish Unionism, II: Ulster Unionism (1973)
The Parnell split, 1890-91 (1992)
Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921 (2005)
‘Who ruled Ireland? The Irish administration, 1879-1914, HJ, 50, 3 (2006)
‘Le trahison des clercs: British intellectuals and the first Home Rule crisis’, Irish
Historical Studies, xxiii (1982-3), pp.134-73
Vivid Faces. The revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1923 (2014)
The Origins of Ulster Unionism (1985)
Coming into the Light. The work, politics and religion of women in Ulster 1840-1940
(1994)
The Ulster party. Irish Unionists in the House of Commons, 1884-1911 (1989)
Sir Edward Carson (1993) and ‘Irish Unionism, 1870-1922’, in D.George Boyce and
A.O’Day (eds.), Defenders of the Union (2001)
Land and Popular Politics in Ireland (1994)
F.S.L. Lyons
Politics and the Irish working class, 1830-1945 (2005)
‘Isabella M. S. Tod, 1836-1896’, in M. Cullen and M. Luddy (eds.), Women, power and
consciousness in nineteenth-century Ireland (1995)
Culture and Anarchy in Ireland 1890-1939 (1982)
F.S.L. Lyons
D. McCartney (ed.)
J. McConnell
D. Meleady
Charles Stewart Parnell (1991)
Parnell. The Politics of Power (1991)
The Irish Parliamentary party and the Third Home Rule Crisis (2013)
John Redmond. The National Leader (2014)
T.W. Moody
A. O’Day
Davitt and Irish Revolution, 1846-82 (1981)
The English Face of Irish Nationalism: Parnellite Involvement in British Politics 188086 (1977)
Irish Nationalist Women 1900-1918 (2013)
S. Pašeta
P. Travers &
D. McCartney (eds)
G. Walker,
R. Ward
Parnell reconsidered (2013)
‘Thomas Sinclair: Presbyterian Liberal Unionist’, in R. English and G. Walker (eds.),
Unionism in modern Ireland (1996)
Women, Unionism and loyalism in Northern Ireland (2006)
British Government Policy
P. Bew
V. Crossman
L.P. Curtis
J.S. Ellis
Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858-82 (1978)
Politics, Law and Order in 19th Century Ireland (1996)
Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland, 1880-1892 (Princeton, 1963)
‘Reconciling the Celt: British national identity, Empire and the 1911 investiture of the
Prince of Wales’, JBS, 37, 4, 1998, pp. 391-418
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A. Gailey
A. Gailey
P. Jalland
J. Loughlin
‘Unionist rhetoric and Irish local government reform, 1895-9’, IHS, 93 (May 1984)
Ireland and the Death of Kindness, 1890-1905 (1987)
The Liberals and Ireland: the Ulster Problem in British Politics to 1914 (1980)
Gladstone, Home Rule and the Irish question 1882-93 (1986)
J. Loughlin
M. O’Callaghan
C. Ò’ Gráda
E. O’Halpin
C.B. Shannon
C. Townshend
A. Warren
The British monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the present (2007)
British High Politics and a Nationalist Ireland (1994)
‘“The greatest blessing of all”: the Old Age Pension in Ireland’, P &P, 175 (2002)
The Decline of the Union: British Government in Ireland 1892-1920 (1987)
Arthur J. Balfour and Ireland 1874-1922 (1988)
Political Violence in Ireland Since 1848 (1983)
'Forster, the Liberals and New Directions in Irish Policy 1880-1882', PH (1987)
B9
Ireland Since 1914
Impact of the First World War on the third Home Rule Bill; the 1916 rebellion and the rise of Sinn Fein; the
Anglo-Irish war, partition and the settlement of 1920-2; the Irish civil war; establishment of the Stormont regime
and the Free State; politics in the Free State and the Republic and Anglo-Irish relations; Northern Ireland since
1972, communal violence, government policies and the beginning of the peace process.
* W.B Yeats
R. Foster
Collected Poems (various edns) for 'Easter 1916', 'The Second Coming'
W.B Yeats (2 vols.)
Introductory/General
D.G. Boyce
A. Jackson
A. Jackson
B. Jenkins
J. Lee
O. Macdonagh
Nationalism in Ireland (1982)
Ireland 1798-1998 (1999)
Home Rule. An Irish History 1800-2000 (2003)
Irish nationalism and the British state. From repeal to revolutionary nationalism (2006)
Ireland 1912-85: Politics and Society (1989)
States of Mind: a Study of Anglo-Irish Conflict 1780-1980 (1982)
Wars and Partition, 1912-1923
R. Bennett
D.G. Boyce
E. Biagini
E. Biagini &
D. Mulhall (eds)
P. Collins (ed.)
D. Ferriter
M. T. Foy
T. Garvin
A. Gregory &
S. Paseta (eds.)
P. Hart
M. Hopkinson
K. Jeffery,
K. Jeffery
M. Laffan
The Black and Tans (2006)
Englishmen and Irish Troubles (1972)
‘The Third Home Rule Bill in British history’, in G. Doherty (ed.), The Home Rule
crisis, 1912-1914 (2014)
The Shaping of Modern Ireland (2016), esp. chs by Bew, Biagini, Laffan, Mansergh
Nationalism and Unionism: a Conflict in Ireland, 1885-1921 (1994)
A Nation and not a rabble. The Irish Revolution 1913-1923 (2015)
Michael Collins’s Intelligence War: The Struggle Between the British and the IRA,
1919-1921 (2006)
1922. The Birth of Irish Democracy (1996)
Ireland and the Great War (2002)
The IRA and Its Enemies 1916-1923 (1998) and The I.R.A. at War, 1916-1923 (2005)
The Irish War of Independence (2004)
Field marshal Sir Henry Wilson: a political soldier (2006)
Ireland and the Great War (2000)
The Resurrection of Ireland. The Sinn Fein Party 1916-1923 (1999)
The First World War: an Agrarian Interpretation (1989)
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D. Leeson
N. Mansergh
C. Pennell
M. Sayers
C. Townshend
C. Townshend
"The 'Scum of London's Underworld'? British Recruits for the Royal Irish Constabulary,
1920-21", CBH, XVII, 1 (2003), 1-38
The Unresolved Question: the Anglo-Irish Settlement and its Undoing 1912-1972
(1991)
A Kingdom United. Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in
Britain and Ireland (2012)
‘Gladstone’s Home Rule legacy: Philip Kerr and the making of the 1920 Government of
Ireland Bill’, M.Daily and T.Hoppen (eds.), Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011)
The British Campaign in Ireland 1919-21 (1978)
Easter 1916 (2005)
Britain and Irish Politics c. 1923-1967
P. Bew, P. Gibbon &
H. Patterson
P. Buckland
P. Buckland
F. Cochrane
D. Ferriter
N C Fleming
G. Fraser &
K. Matthews
B. Girvin
M. Harris
D. Kennedy
D. Keogh &
M. O' Driscoll (eds.)
M. Moulton
S. Nelson
B. O’Leary &
J. McGarry (eds.)
M. Mulholland
H. Patterson
B. Purdie
R. Rees
G. Walker
J.H. Whyte,
Northern Ireland 1921-2001. Political forces and social classes (2002)
The Factory of Grievances: Devolved Government in Northern Ireland 1921-39 (1979)
Irish Unionism, II: Ulster Unionism (1973)
‘”Meddling at the crossroads”: the decline & fall of Terence O’Neill within the Unionist
community’, in R. English & G. Walker (eds.), Unionism in modern Ireland (1996)
Judging DeV: a reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon De Valera (2007)
‘The first government of Northern Ireland, education reform and the failure of antipopulist unionism, 1921-1925’, 20thCBH, 18, 2 (2007)
‘Stanley Baldwin’s “Irish Question”’, HJ (2000)
The Emergency. Neutral Ireland 1939-1945 (2006)
The Catholic Church and the Foundation of the Northern Ireland State 1912-30 (1993)
The widening gulf: Northern attitudes to the independent Irish Free State (Belfast,
1988)
Ireland in World War Two (2004)
Ireland and the Irish in interwar England (2014)
Ulster’s Uncertain Defenders: Loyalists & the Northern Ireland Conflict (1984)
The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland (1993)
Northern Ireland at the Crossroads: Ulster Unionism in the O’Neill Years, 1960-9
(2000)
Ireland since 1939. The persistence of conflict (2006)
Politics in the Streets: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland (1990)
Labour and the Northern Ireland Problem, 1945-51: The Missed Opportunity ( 2009)
The Politics of Frustration: Harry Midgely and the Failure of Labour in Northern
Ireland (1985)
Interpreting Northern Ireland (1990)
The Troubles and the Peace Process 1968-2010
*M. Rees
*R. Mason
*G. Adams
*K. Bloomfield
*P. Bew
*J. Powell
Northern Ireland: A Personal Perspective (1985)
Paying the Price (1999)
Falls Memoirs (1983) and Hope and History. Making peace in Ireland (2003)
A tragedy of errors: the government and misgovernment of Northern Ireland (2007)
The making and unmaking of the Good Friday Agreement (2007)
Great hatred, little room (2008)
P. Bew
‘The political history of Northern Ireland since Partition: the prospects for North-South
cooperation’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 98 (1999), pp.401-18
Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789-2006 (Oxford, 2007)
P. Bew
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P Bew et al
Northern Ireland: Between War and Peace (1997)
P. Bew & H. Patterson The British State and the Ulster Crisis: From Wilson to Thatcher (1985)
R. Bourke
Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas (2003)
J. Bowyer Bell
The Irish Troubles: a Generation of Violence 1967-1992 (1993)
S. Bruce
God Save Ulster! : The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism (1986)
S. Bruce
Paisley. Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland (2007)
D. Bryan
Orange parades: the politics of ritual, tradition and control (2000)
P. Catterall &
S. MacDoughall (eds) The Northern Ireland Question in British Politics (1996)
C. Coulter
‘Direct rule and the Unionist middle classes’, in R. English and G. Walker (eds.),
Unionism in modern Ireland (1996)
M. Cunningham
British government policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000 (2001)
R. English
Irish Freedom. The history of nationalism in Ireland (2006)
R. English
Armed struggle. A history of the IRA (2003)
M. Frampton
The long march. The political strategy of Sinn Fein 1981-2007 (2008)
F. Gaffikin &
M. Morrisey
Northern Ireland: the Thatcher Years (1990)
Y. Galligan
Women and Politics in Comtemporary Ireland. From the Margins to the Mainstream
(1998)
D. Godson
Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Ulster Unionism (2004)
T. Hennessey
Northern Ireland: the origins of the Troubles (2005)
E. Kaufmann
The Orange Order (2007)
R. Kearney
Post-Nationalist Ireland. Politics, Culture and Philosophy (1997)
G. McGladdery
Provisional IRA in England: the bombing campaign, 1973-1997 (2006)
E. Moloney
Pailsey (2008)
G. Murray & J. Tonge Sinn Féin and the SDLP: From Alienation to Participation ( 2005)
G. Murray
John Hume and the SDLP (1998)
N. Ó’Dochartaigh
From civil rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of Irish Troubles ( 2005)
P. O’Malley
Biting at the grave: the Irish hunger strikes and the politics of despair (1990
H. Patterson
The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA (1997)
H. Patterson
Ireland since 1939. The persistence of violence (2007)
S. Prince
‘The global revolt of 1968 and Northern Ireland’, HJ, 49 (2006), 851-77
S. Prince
Northern Ireland’s 68 (2007)
C. Roulston
'Women on the margin: the women's movement in Northern Ireland, 1973-1988',
Science and Society, vol.53 (1989)
J. Ruane & J. Todd
The dynamics of conflict in Northern Ireland ( 2000), chapts 1 and 11
P. Shirlow &
M. McGovern (eds)
R. Ward
Who are 'the People'? Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland
(1997)
Women, unionism and loyalism in Northern Ireland: from 'tea-makers' to political
actors (2006)
B10
Scotland and Wales since 1880: Rebirth of Two Nations?
Liberalism, nationalism and Unionism; land reform and religious tensions; labour unrest and the development of
independent nationalist parties; the referenda and the establishment of representative assemblies; national and
supra-national identities in the British Isles.
General & ‘UK’
E. Biagini (ed.)
V. Bogadanor
A. Grant
Citizenship and Community (1996), chas 10, 12 & 13
Devolution in the United Kingdom (1999)
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& K. Stringer, eds.
C. Harvie,
P. Hitchens
A. Jackson
J. Lawrence
R. Levy
T. Nairn
K. Robbins
K. Robbins
D. Tanner et al (ed)
P. Ward
R. Weight
C. H. Williams (ed.)
Uniting the Kingdom? The Making of British History (1995)
‘The Moment of British Nationalism, 1939-1970’, PQ (2000)
The Abolition of Britain (2000)
The Two Unions. Ireland, Scotland and the survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007
(2012)
‘The Politics of Place and the Politics of Nation’, TCBH, 11:1 (2000)
‘The Disunited Kingdom: the Territorial Dimension of British Politics’, in L. Robins and
B. Jones (eds.), Half a Century of British Politics (1997)
The Break-Up of Britain (1981) and After Britain (1999)
Nineteenth-Century Britain: England, Scotland and Wales the making of a nation
(1989)
Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness (1997)
Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1945: Perspectives from the
‘Four Nations’ (2006)
Britishness since 1870 (2004)
Patriots. National identity in Britain 1940-2000 (2003), chapt. 6 and 11
National Separatism (1982)
Scotland
*Alex Salmond
*Gordon Brown
The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever (2015)
My Scotland, Our Britain: A Future Worth Sharing (2014)
D.G. Boyce & A.O’Day (eds.) Defenders of the Union. A Survey of British and Irish Unionism since 1801
(2001)
A. Brown, D. McCrone &
G. Newby
Ireland, radicalism and the Scottish Highlands, 1870-1912 (2007)
E. Cameron
Land for the People? The British Government and the Scottish Highlands c.1880-1925
(1996)
T.M. Devine
The Scottish nation 1700-2000 (2000), chapts. 13, 14 and16
T.M. Devine
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 (2011)
I. Donnachie, C. Harvie &
I. Wood (eds.)
Forward. A Hundred Years of Labour Politics in Scotland (1988)
R. Finlay
A partnership for good? Scottish politics and the Union since 1880 (1997)
T. Gallagher (ed.)
P. Geoghegan
C. Harvie
C. Harvie
I.G.C. Hutchison
I.G.C. Hutchison
A.W. MacColl
C. Macdonald (ed.)
A. McKinlay
& R.J. Morris (eds.)
L. Patterson
T.C. Smout
D. Torrance
H. Trevor Roper
G. Walker &
T. Gallagher (eds.)
I. Wood
Nationalism in the Nineties (1991)
The People's Referendum: Why Scotland Will Never Be the Same Again (2014)
Scotland and Nationalism (1994)
The road to home rule (2000)
A Political History of Scotland 1832-1924 (1986)
Scottish Politics in the Twentieth Century (2001)
Land, faith and the crofting community. Christianity and social criticism in the
Highlands of Scotland, 1843-1893 (2006)
Unionist Scotland 1800-1997 (1998)
The ILP on Clydeside, 1892-1932 (1991)
Politics and Society in Scotland (1996)
A Century of the Scottish People, 1850-1950 (1986)
Salmond: Against the Odds (2010)
'The Invention of Tradition: the Highland Tradition in Scotland', in E. Hobsbawm and T.
Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition (1992 edn.)
Sermons & Battle Hymns: Protestant Popular Culture in Scotland (1990)
Scotland and Ulster (1994)
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Wales
M. Cragoe
M. Cragoe &
H. Davies
J. Davies
A. Edwards
A. Edwards et al
J. Ellis
J.G. Evans
H. Francis &
D. Smith
M. Johnes
A. Jones
J. Graham Jones
‘“We like local patriotism” The Conservative party and the discourse of decentralisation,
1945-51’, EHR (2007)
The Welsh Nationalist Party, 1925-1945: a Call to Nationhood (1983)
A History of Wales (1993)
Labour’s crisis: Plaid Cymru, the Conservatives, and the decline of the Labour Party in
north-west Wales, 1960-74 (2011)
‘The Conservative governments and the development of Welsh language policy in the
1980s and 1990s’, HJ (2011)
‘Reconciling the Celt: British National identity, Empire and the 1911 investiture of the
Prince of Wales,’ JBS (1998)
Devolution in Wales: claims and responses, 1937-1979 (2006)
G. Williams
G. Williams
The Fed: a history of the South Wales miners in the twentieth century (1998)
Wales since 1939 (2012)
Press, politics and society: a history of journalism in Wales (1993)
'Michael Davitt, David Lloyd George and T.E. Ellis: the Welsh Experience, 1886', WHR,
xviii (1996-7)
David Lloyd George and Welsh liberalism (2010)
Modern Wales: Politics, Places and People (1995)
Wales in British Politics 1868-1922 (1980)
‘England, Britain and the Audit of War’ TRHS vii (1997)
‘Peace movements in Wales, 1899-1945’, WHR (1981)
‘The new liberalism and the challenge of Labour: the Welsh experience, 1885-1929’,
WHR (1973)
Building Jerusalem. Nonconformity, Labour and the Social Question in Wales, 19061939 (1998)
The Labour Party in Wales, 1900-2000 (2000)
Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1945: Perspectives from the
‘Four Nations’ (2006), esp chs by Griffiths, Edwards & Griffith, and Williams.
‘The Conservative Party and Welsh Politics in the Inter-War Years’, EHR (2013)
Unemployment, poverty and health in interwar South Wales (2006)
Democratic Rhondda: politics and society, 1885-1951 (1996)
Wales and War: society, politics and religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
(2007)
Religion, Language and Nationality in Wales (1979)
When was Wales? (1985)
B11
Britain Abroad: Free Trade, Europe and Empire, 1880-1914
J. Graham Jones
K.O. Morgan
K.O. Morgan
K.O. Morgan
K. O. Morgan
K. O. Morgan
R. Pope
D. Tanner et al
D. Tanner et al (ed)
G. Thomas
S. Thompson
C. Williams
C. Williams (eds)
Britain's interests as a European, imperial and commercial power; the strategic implications of Free Trade and its
relation to empire; Britain's response to the changing balance of power in Europe; her attitudes to continental
engagements; the logic of entry into World War One.
*J Seeley
The Expansion of England (1887)
Introductory/General
M. Chamberlain
T.G. Otte
B. Porter
Pax Britannica? British Foreign Policy 1789-1914 (1988)
The Foreign Office mind: the making of British foreign policy, 1865-1914 (Cambridge,
2011)
Britain, Europe and the World 1850-1982 (1983)
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B. Porter
A. Porter
B. Porter
A. Thompson
The Lion's Share: a Short History of British Imperialism 1850-1983 (1984)
Religion versus Empire? British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 17001914 (2004)
The absent-minded imperialists. Empire, society and culture in Britain (2004)
The Empire strikes back: the impact of imperialism in Britain since the mid-nineteenth
century (2005)
Foreign Policy (General)
K. Bourne (ed.)
C.H.D. Howard
M. Howard
D.C.M. Platt
M. Swartz
A.J.P. Taylor
K.M. Wilson (ed.)
The Foreign Policy of Victorian England 1830-1902 (1970)
Britain and the Casus Belli 1822-1902: a Study of Britain's International Position From
Canning to Salisbury (1974)
The Continental Commitment (1972)
Finance, Trade and Politics in British Foreign Policy, 1815-1914 (1968)
The Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli (1985)
The Trouble-makers: Dissent Over Foreign Policy 1792-1939 (1957)
British Foreign Secretaries and Foreign Policy 1854-1914 (1987)
Imperialism & Imperial Policy
J.Belich
D. Bell
Replenishing the Earth: the Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 17831939 (2009)
The Idea of Greater Britain. The Empire and the Future of World Order 1860-1900
(2007)
P.J. Cain &
A.G. Hopkins
J. Darwin
J. Darwin
C.C. Eldridge
A.L. Friedberg
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J. Gallagher
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B12 Britain, Europe and the World between the Wars
The extent and timing of Britain’s loss of international standing and of her adjustment to this; the role of
economic pressures and domestic politics on foreign policy-making; the extent of popular internationalism and
pacifism after 1918; the roots of ‘appeasement’ in the 1920s; what we mean by ‘appeasement’; how far it was a
rational response to global over-stretch; the possible alternatives to Chamberlain's policies; the politics of
rearmament; the possibility of a negotiated peace in 1940.
* ‘Cato’
Guilty Men (1940; Penguin, 1998)
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D. Cameron Watt
M.G. Fry (ed.)
M. Gilbert
G. Martel (ed.)
K. Robbins
W.R. Rock
How War Came (1989) (conclusion)
Power, Personalities and Policies: Essays in Honour of D.C. Watt (1992)
The Roots of Appeasement (1966)
The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (1986)
Appeasement (2nd ed., 1997)
British Appeasement in the 1930s (1977)
The Political Context
P.J. Beck
D.S. Birn
M. Ceadel
M. Ceadel
R. Cockett
P.O. Cohrs
N.J. Crowson
M. Cowling
J. Darwin
J. Darwin
D. Dutton
W. Roger Louis
H. McCarthy
B.J.C. McKercher
B.J.C. McKercher
K. Middlemas
G.C. Peden
G.C. Peden
R. Self
G. Stewart
P. Williamson
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Nations and the Sudetenland Question,’ Diplomacy and Statecraft (1999)
The League of Nations Union, 1918-1945 (1981)
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(1979)
‘The First British Referendum: the Peace Ballot, 1934-35,’ EHR (1980)
Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement and the Manipulation of the Press (1989)
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European Stability in the 1920s’ in G. Johnson (ed.), Locarno Revisited (2004)
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(1997)
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‘Imperialism in Decline? Tendencies in British Imperial Policy between the Wars', HJ
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xxvii (1984)
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P. Yearwood
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Appeasement and Its Critics
G. Batonyi
J. Charmley
P. Corthorn
D. Gillard
P.M. Kennedy
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L. Ketternacker (eds.)
R. Ovendale
R.J. Overy
R.A.C. Parker
D. Reynolds
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P.W. Schroeder
N. Thompson
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Langhorne (ed.), Diplomacy and Intelligence During the Second World War (1985)
‘Munich and the British Tradition’, HJ, xix (1976)
The Anti-Appeasers (1971)
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B13
Britain, Europe and the World since 1945
How far post-war foreign policy recognised new realities; British reactions to European integration; gains and
losses from alliance with the USA; the impact of the Suez crisis; the 'special relationship' - myth or reality?; the
end of empire as a planned retreat or a chaotic scuttle.
*John Osborne
The Entertainer (1957; film 1960)
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P.J. Cain &
A.G. Hopkins
D. Reynolds
S. Greenwood
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Britannia Overruled (2nd ed., 2000)
Britain and the Cold War, 1945-91 (2000)
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A. Bullock
J. Charmley
Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, 1945-51 (1983)
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(1995)
A. Deighton,
‘Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1955’, in O.A. Westad and M. Leffler (eds), The
Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. I: Origins (Cambridge, 2010), 112-32.
M. Dockrill
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W.R. Louis & H. Bull (eds)
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C. Moore
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J. Ramsden
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D. Reynolds
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M. Thatcher
D.R. Thorpe
G. Warner
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Anthony Eden (2003)
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Dockrill & B. McKercher (eds), Diplomacy & World Power (1996)
Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951-5 (1996)
‘German Rearmament and the European Defence Community’, in J Young (ed), The
Foreign Policy of Churchill’s Peacetime Administration (1988), 81-109
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C. Bayly & T. Harper
D.G. Boyce
D. Carlton
P. Clarke
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A.G. Hopkins
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N. Owen
C. Schofield
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Decolonisation and the British Empire, 1775-1997 (1998), chs 6 and 8
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The last thousand days of the British Empire (2007), chapters 11-14
British Decolonization since 1945: A Pattern or a Puzzle? JICH (1984)
Britain and Decolonization 1945-65 (1988)
‘Fear of Falling: British Politics and Imperial Decline since 1900’, TRHS (1986)
‘Rethinking Decolonisation.’ P&P (2008)
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crisis in the late 1950s
Britain, the Commonwealth and Europe (2001)
‘Macmillan and the Wind of Change in Africa, 1957-60,’ HJ (1995)
‘The Conservative Party and Indian Independence, 1945-1947’, HJ, 46 (2003)
Enoch Powell and the making of postcolonial Britain (2013)
British Culture and the End of Empire (2001)
Englishness and Empire, 1939-1965 (2005)
European Integration
A. Deighton &
P. Ludlow
‘A Conditional Application: …. the First Attempt to Seek Membership of the EEC,
1961-3’ in A. Deighton (ed.), Building Post-War Europe (1995)
J. Ellison
‘Accepting the Inevitable: Britain and European Integration’ in W. Kaiser and G.
Staerck (eds), British Foreign Policy 1955-1964: Contracting Options (2000)
J. Ellison,
‘Britain and Europe’, in: P. Addison and H. Jones (eds), A Companion to Contemporary
Britain 1939-2000 (2005), 517-539
S. George
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R. Griffiths & S. Ward ‘“The End of a Thousand Years of History”. The Origins of Britain’s Decision to Join
the European Community 1955-1961’, in R. Griffiths and S. Ward (eds), Courting the
Common Market: the First Attempt to Enlarge the European Community 1961-1963
(1996)
B. Grob-Fitzgibbon
Continental Drift: Britain and Europe from the end of Empire to the Rise of EuroScepticism (2016)
M. Haeussler
‘The Popular Press and Ideas of Europe: the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, and
Britain’s First Application to Join the EEC, 1961-63’, TCBH 25/1 (2014)
W. Kaiser
Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans: Britain and European Integration, 1945-63
(1996)
C. Lord
British Entry to the European Community under the Heath Government (1993)
P. Stephens
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S. Wall
The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Volume II: From
Rejection to Referendum 1963-1975 (2013)
H. Young
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J.W. Young
Britain, France, and the Unity of Europe, 1945-51 (1984)
J.W. Young
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