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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The Party That Was Born From Local Government: A History of Labour and Local Authorities
By Will Barber Taylor It is a moment that has become crystalised in the memory of those who were both there and those who heard it since – Neil Kinnock, standing in front of the assembled ranks of the 1985 Labour Party Conference and uttering the words “A council, a Labour council”.[1] It is aContinue reading “The Party That Was Born From Local Government: A History of Labour and Local Authorities”
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”
History, 1997 and All That 