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Named Person: | Duncan Tanner |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris Williams; Andrew Edwards |
ISBN: | 0719090717 9780719090714 |
OCLC Number: | 903674761 |
Description: | xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. The making and remaking of `common sense' about British economic policy / Peter Clarke -- 2. The `Big State' versus the `Big Society' in twentieth-century Britain / Pat Thane -- 3. `One meaning blots out another'? Liberals and Labour in the East Midlands coalfield / David Howell -- 4. Cartooning the rise of Labour, 1900 -- 21 / Chris Williams -- 5. Novels for `thinking people': fiction and the inter-war broad left / Steven Fielding -- 6. Myth and counter-myth in Second World War British politics / Andrew Thorpe -- 7. Labour, nationalism and the problem of Welsh devolution, c.1939 -- 64 / Andrew Edwards -- 8. Defending the constitution: the Conservative party and the idea of devolution, 1945 -- 74 / Matthew Cragoe -- 9. Public and private languages of `class' in the Luton by-election of 1963 / Jon Lawrence -- 10. Community and the Labour left in 1970s London / John Davis -- 11. Labour, the Union and the rebirth of Welsh devolution / Mari Elin Wiliam. |
Responsibility: | edited by Chris Williams and Andrew Edwards. |
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'As is to be expected of a volume based on a conference which took place in 2012, aspects of the contributions collected in this volume will be familiar from other articles or books produced by the authors. Nonetheless, as the preceding survey indicates, this is a rich and varied volume, which indicates the continued health of twentieth-century political history in Britain and offers a fitting reflection of the influence of Duncan Tanner on its writing.'David Thackeray, University of Exeter, Journal of the Historical Association -- . Read more...

