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  • The Women and Men of 1926

    A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miners' Lockout in South Wales

    by Sue Bruley ...
    Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which attempts to examine, for example, how miner's wives coped for six months without pay. "The Women and Men of 1926" investigates the Lock-Out from the perspective of gender relations, offering a social history of the mining communities in south Wales ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working for Victory

    A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory

    by Sue Bruley ...
    During the Second World War over 1.5 million of women found themselves thrust into a male working world, having to learn new skills within a matter of weeks. Their contribution to the war effort often remains unheralded, but it is without doubt that these women played a central role in an Allied victory. Kathleen Church-Bliss and Elsie Whiteman were two such women, who volunteered for war work and ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leninism, Stalinism, and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1920-1939

    by Sue Bruley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    This book offers a detailed examination of the interaction between socialism and feminism through the lens of one particular socialist organisation, the Communist Party of Great Britain, from its foundation in 1920 until the outbreak of the Second World War.The study of socialism and feminism in the CPGB can be divided into four major areas – the party’s concept of socialism and the role of women ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

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    by Prof Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke ...
    Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity ... Read more

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  • Labour and working-class lives

    Essays to celebrate the life and work of Chris Wrigley

    Edited by Keith Laybourn, John Shepherd ...
    British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley. It focuses upon trade unionism, the co-operative movement, the rise and fall of the ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Rethinking right-wing women

    Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present

    Edited by Clarisse Berthezène, Julie Gottlieb ...
    Series Book 1 - New Perspectives on the Right
    Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win (est.2005), the party has exploited women’s political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment ... Read more

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  • Ramsay Macdonald

    by Kevin Morgan ...
    Series series British Prime Ministers
    The Labour party's first Prime Minister ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Margaret Thatcher

    Volume One: The Grocer’s Daughter

    by John Campbell ...
    'A fascinating account... Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous' ObserverWhen Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative Party leadership in 1975, the public knew her only as the archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady, more famous for her hats than for any outstanding talent: she had a rich businessman husband, sent her children to the most ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Lady in the Van

    by Alan Bennett ...
    NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING DAME MAGGIE SMITH'The first book that ever made me laugh out loud' Adam Kay'Utter genius' Daily MailIn 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord. And yet she lived ... Read more

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  • Seasons in the Sun

    The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

    by Dominic Sandbrook ...
    Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain - the book behind the major BB2 series The SeventiesIn this gloriously colourful book, Dominic Sandbrook recreates the extraordinary period of the late 1970s in all its chaos and contradiction, revealing it as a decisive point in our recent history. Across the country, a profound argument about the future of the nation was being ... Read more

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  • The Reds

    The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality

    by Stuart Macintyre ...
    The only large-scale comprehensive account of an intriguing part of Australia's past.In 1920, 26 men and women met in a dingy hall in Sydney to create a new political party. They expected the overthrow of capitalism and the emancipation of humanity - here, and all around the world.Two decades later, when Australia joined the Second World War, the Commonwealth government suppressed the Communist ... Read more

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  • The People

    The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

    by Selina Todd ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD