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  • The Football Pools and the British Working Class

    A Political, Social and Cultural History

    par Keith Laybourn ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, partly as a result of the National Lottery. The book explores how this new gambling activity became a ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Ascott Martyrs

    Why did the rural establishment imprison sixteen women and two babies in 1873?

    Modifié par Keith Laybourn ...
    A story of 19th century rural oppression in England when sixteen women and two babies were imprisoned in Oxfordshire, leading to a national scandal and a partial pardon by Queen Victoria.This unusual history book, written by national academic leaders and local historians, puts the sixteen women who came to be known as the Ascott Martyrs at the centre of a story that until recently was largely lost ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939

    The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party

    par Keith Laybourn ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political development is the work of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), which was a formative influence in the growth of the political Labour movement and its ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Battle for the Roads of Britain

    Police, Motorists and the Law, c.1890s to 1970s

    par David Taylor, Keith Laybourn ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    Policing in Britain was changed fundamentally by the rapid emergence of the automobile at the beginning of the twentieth century. This book seeks to examine how the police reacted to this challenge and moved to segregate the motorist from the pedestrian in an attempt to eliminate the 'road holocaust' that ensued. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Going to the dogs

    A history of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926-2017

    par Keith Laybourn ...
    Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class. Though condemned as a dissipate and impoverishing activity, it was, in fact, a significant leisure opportunity for the working class, which cost little for the minority of bettors ... En savoir plus

    $142.99 CAD

  • Labour and working-class lives

    Essays to celebrate the life and work of Chris Wrigley

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons

    Modifié par John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn, Richard Toye ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of the House of Commons 1921-28 presiding over the debates at the time of the General Strike of 1926. In ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland

    From Peterloo to the Present

    Modifié par Keith Laybourn, Quentin Outram ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the ‘people’s martyrology’, raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of Peterloo; Tolpuddle; Featherstone; Tonypandy; Emily Davison, fatally injured by the King’s horse on Derby Day, 1913; the 1916 Easter Rising; Jarrow, ‘the town that was murdered, and martyred in the 1930s’; ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Marxism in Britain

    Dissent, Decline and Re-emergence 1945-c.2000

    par Keith Laybourn ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50,000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5,000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organisations experienced a very similar decline, although there has been a late flowering of Marxism in Scotland.Based on the Communist Party ... En savoir plus

    $63.20 CAD

  • Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918

    par Keith Laybourn, Jack Reynolds ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
    First published in 1984. This book is a detailed study of the way in which the growing Labour movement gradually ousted the Liberals in West Yorkshire between 1890 and 1924. It demonstrates the basis of old Liberalism and the strength of local non-conformity, and its powerful links with the textile and engineering industries. It shows how the Liberalism of this district was dominated by small ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

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  • Harold Wilson

    The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson

    Modifié par Andrew S. Crines, Kevin Hickson ...
    This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in Labour's history remains somewhat ... En savoir plus

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