By Will Barber-Taylor History is to put it bluntly, a contentious topic. Who tells the history of an event, who forms what we consider to be the historical truth, is often as contentious as the history that is recounted. It is perhaps fitting then that political history, of all the forms of history that exist,Continue reading “History, 1997 and All That: How The Labour Party Used History To Win in 1997”
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Building that New Jerusalem: An Examination of Labour Literature of the 1930s and 1940s
By Will Barber Taylor The world is very different today to the world that existed in the 1930s and 1940s. It is in many respects unrecognisable – a world that is, by all means still divided and to an extent racked by prejudice but one that is not as riven as that of generations past.Continue reading “Building that New Jerusalem: An Examination of Labour Literature of the 1930s and 1940s”
25 Years On: What Happened to Tony Blair’s Unbeatable Coalition?
By Scott Cresswell It “was the greatest day in the history of the British Labour Party,” historian Peter Hennessy wrote. “Conservatives losses poured in” as Labour won a landslide victory against Winston Churchill’s Tories in the 1945 general election. Hennessey’s words were written in 1992, the same year as Labour’s fourth successive election defeat. ItContinue reading “25 Years On: What Happened to Tony Blair’s Unbeatable Coalition?”
History, 1997 and All That 