Britain’s First Labour Government

Shepherd, John R.; Laybourn, Keith

doi:10.1057/9780230287365

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“…The expansion of the franchise, the first Labour government and the increasing influence of trade unionism at home only served to confirm that such fears were genuine. 93 An increasingly distant relationship between the classes, both on and off cricket fields, arose in the decades following World War I. 94 The inter-war period was, of course, marked by an economic depression and high levels of unemployment nationally, and this led to an extended period of social unrest, which included six national hunger marches, the General Strike and the Jarrow Crusade.…”

Section: Class Relations Deteriorate 1918-39mentioning

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Suburbanization and cultural change: the case of club cricket in Surrey, 1870–1939

Stone

2016

Urban History

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This article examines the social, economic and political origins of what was a new, distinctly elitist, culture of ‘non-competitive’ sport, and how these values, which emerged from a small group of metropolitan elites, spread throughout the south-east of England. It argues that a long-term analysis of sport provides a valuable contextual tool for urban historians. In this case, how the gradual adoption of a distinctly ‘metropolitan’ culture throughout Surrey, and the associated changes in the social structure and purpose of cricket, may contribute towards a more nuanced assessment of that county's ‘suburbanization’, and how this region interacted with the urban core.

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Suburbanization and cultural change: the case of club cricket in Surrey, 1870–1939

Stone

2016

Urban History

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“…30 Famously, Anthony Crosland noted the twelve different strands of radical activism that characterized the forces framing socialist doctrine within the Labour party. 30 Famously, Anthony Crosland noted the twelve different strands of radical activism that characterized the forces framing socialist doctrine within the Labour party.…”

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‘The pioneers of the great army of democrats’: the mythology and popular history of the British Labour party, 1890–1931

Taylor

2018

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Recent studies have highlighted the importance of memory, the past and a popular interpretation of history to the identities of political parties. This article takes the Labour party as an example of this tradition and analyses the ways in which its leaders, adherents and rank and file members mythologized the story of its traditions and forebears at the time of its foundation and subsequently. By analysing the periods of history, the individuals and the movements selected for this process, this article seeks to locate the popular history of the party in the currents of the radical and reform past that comprised the broader British radical tradition from the mid nineteenth century onwards. Assessing the affinities, precedents, and precursors that paved the way for labourism, this article demonstrates the political strands that fed through into the Labour platform and considers the ways in which an amateur understanding of the past enabled the generation that built the Labour party to undertake a selective and contentious appropriation of past events.

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Disjunctive Leadership in Interwar Britain: Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, and Neville Chamberlain

Byrne

Randall

Theakston

2020

Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership in British Politics

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Britain’s First Labour Government

Cited by 10 publications

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Suburbanization and cultural change: the case of club cricket in Surrey, 1870–1939

Suburbanization and cultural change: the case of club cricket in Surrey, 1870–1939

‘The pioneers of the great army of democrats’: the mythology and popular history of the British Labour party, 1890–1931

Disjunctive Leadership in Interwar Britain: Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, and Neville Chamberlain

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