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Author : Raymond Postgate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3726961
Author : John Shepherd
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542053
'The most lovable figure in modern politics' was how A.J.P Taylor described the Christian pacifist, George Lansbury. At 73 he took over the helm of the Labour Party of only 46 MPs in the Depression years of the 1930s. Throughout a remarkable life, Lansbury remained an extraordinary politician of the people, associated with a multitude of crusades for social justice. He resigned from Parliament to support 'Votes for Women', and for the next ten years edited the fiery Daily Herald. In 1921 Lansbury led the 'Poplar Rates Rebellion' - when thirty Labour councillors went willingly to prison in defiance of the government, the courts and their own party leadership. As Labour leader, Lansbury was known universally as a committed socialist an implacable opponent of capitalism and imperialism. He never sought personal wealth, travelled everywhere by public transport, and made his home in impoverished East London. His final years were spent in a tireless international peace crusade to prevent the drift towards another world war. In this major new biography, John Shepherd draws on an impressive range of research to reconstruct the life of a charismatic Labour pioneer. He reaffirms George Lansbury's standing at the heart of Old Labour and his importance to British politics as a whole.
Author : George Lansbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015015216883
Author : Robert Holman
Publisher : Lion
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0745915744
Author : Edgar Lansbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074187959
Author : Jonathan Schneer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719021707
Author : Joy S. J. Edwards
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1367689759
This is a biography of the Hon. George Lansbury MP for Bow and Bromley using poetry and prose to detail his many causes. Lansbury was a Christian Socialist, feminist, author, editor, pacifist and supporter of the suffragette movement.
Author : Charles Clarke
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849549677
As the party that championed trade union rights, the creation of the NHS and the establishment of a national minimum wage, Labour has played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Keir Hardie to Ed Miliband, via Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee and Tony Blair - have steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success. With the widening of the franchise, revolutionary changes to social values and the growing ubiquity of the media, the requirements, techniques and goals of Labour leadership since the party's turn-of-the twentieth- century inception have been forced to evolve almost beyond recognition - and not all its leaders have managed to keep up. This comprehensive and enlightening book considers the attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective time and diplomatic landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, detailed personal biographies from some of the country's foremost political critics, and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves. An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Labour Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.
Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781407013077
Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000144369
The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429891793
Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy arose dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to the subject of welfare responsibilities in the state. This volume stresses the complexity of conscious and unconscious influences upon policy, which include such political imperatives as the wish to maintain social order, to maintain and increase economic and military efficiency and to preserve and strengthen the family as a central social institution. It suggests that the break between unsympathetic nineteenth-century Poor Law attitudes towards the poor and modern ‘welfare state’ approaches has been less sharp or complete than is often assumed.
Author : Brock Millman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135305062
The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He argues that a comprehensive and effective system of suppression had been developed by the war's end in 1918, with a greater level in reserve.
Author : Noreen Branson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034793300
Author : Chris Wrigley,Johnathan Shepherd
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852850604
Author : Clive Barrett
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718843113
The outbreak of the First World War saw an upsurge of patriotism. The Church generally saw the war as justified, and many clergy encouraged the men in their congregations to join the army. There was, however, already a strong strand of anti-war sentiment, opposed to the dominant theology of the Establishment. This was partly based on traditional Christian pacifism, but included other religious, social and political influences. Campaigners and conscientious objectors voiced a growing concern about the huge human cost of a conflict seemingly endlessly bogged down in the mud of the Flanders poppy fields. 'Subversive Peacemakers' recounts the stories of a strong and increasingly organised opposition to war, from peace groups to poets, from preachers to politicians, from women to working men, all of whom struggled to secure peace in a militarised and fragmenting society. Clive Barrett demonstrates that the Church of England provided an unlikely setting for much of this war resistance. Barrett masterfully narrates the story of the peace movement, bringing together stories of war-resistance until now lost, disregarded or undervalued. The people involved, as well as the dramatic events of the conflict themselves, are seen in a new light.
