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  • The Ascott Martyrs

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

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Football Pools and the British Working Class

    A Political, Social and Cultural History

    by Keith Laybourn ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939

    The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party

    by Keith Laybourn ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Going to the dogs

    A history of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926-2017

    by 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 ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Battle for the Roads of Britain

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

    by David Taylor, Keith Laybourn ...
    Series 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. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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

    Edited by John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn, Richard Toye ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • 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

    $22.99 USD

  • Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland

    From Peterloo to the Present

    Edited by Keith Laybourn, Quentin Outram ...
    Series 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’; ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Marxism in Britain

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

    by Keith Laybourn ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918

    by Keith Laybourn, Jack Reynolds ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 4, 1880 to the Present

    Edited by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic, institutional and cultural history. By situating the Irish story, ... Read more

    $45.09 USD