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A history of the British Labour Party

Thorpe's history of the Labour Party has now been updated to offer a detailed analysis of Tony's Blair's thirteen-year leadership, and includes the story of Gordon Brown's appointment as PM
Print Book, English, ©2008
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, ©2008
History
xi, 393 pages ; 27 cm
9780230500105, 9780230500112, 0230500102, 0230500110
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Creation and early years, 1900-14
The surge to second-party status, 1914-22
Progress and collapse, 1922-31
Remaking the party? 1931-9
The impact of the Second World War, 1939-45
The Attlee governments, 1945-51
Searching for a new direction, 1951-64
Wilson in power, 1964-70
Drift to defeat? 1970-9
Down and out? 1979-87
Modernization and new Labour, 1987-97
Blair and new Labour in power, 1997-2007
First edition published 1997; second edition published 2001