POLI20532 Course Outline 1112 - School of Social Sciences

Geoffrey Foote
Jose Harris
Raymond Plant et al (eds)
John Saville
Noel Thompson
POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12
The Labour Party’s Political Thought, (1997 edn).
‘Labour’s political and social thought’ in Duncan
Tanner et al. Labour’s First Century, pp. 8-45
The struggle for Labour's soul: understanding
Labour's political thought since 1945 (2004)
'The ideology of Labourism' in Robert Benewick
(ed.), Knowledge and Belief in Politics, 1973
Political Economy and the Labour Party. The
economics of democratic socialism (1996)
(ii)
The Attlee governments
T. Brett et al. 'Planned trade, Labour Party policy and US
intervention', History Workshop 13 (1982).
Stephen Brooke
'Revisionists and fundamentalists, The Labour
Party and economic policy during the Second
World War', Historical Journal 32 (1989), pp. 157-
75
Jerry Brookshire Clement Attlee (1995)
John Campbell
Nye Bevan and the mirage of British socialism
(1987), esp chs 12-13. (Study of the most outspoken
socialist in the cabinet and the architect of the NHS;
see also Foot’s biography below.)
Peter Clarke
The Cripps Version. The life of Sir Stafford Cripps
(2002), part 6. (Labour’s second post-war chancellor
and the personification of ‘austerity’.)
S Fielding, et al.
England Arise. The Labour Party and popular
politics in 1940s Britain (1995). (Revisionist account;
for a critique see Hinton below).
S. Fielding ‘“Don’t know and don’t care”: popular political
attitudes in Labour’s Britain, 1945-51’ in Nick
Tiratsoo (ed.), The Attlee Years (1990), pp. 106-25
(similar arguments to those in England Arise!)
Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan 1945-1960 (1973), esp chs 3-4.
Martin Francis, Ideas and Politics under Labour 1945-1951 (1997).
Martin Francis
'The Labour Party: modernisation and the politics
of restraint' in Conekin, Mort and Waters, eds,
Moments of modernity, pp. 152-70.
Jim Fyrth (ed)
Labour's High Noon (1995). (Essays providing a leftwing
critique of the government's economic and social
policies; as well as John Saville’s introduction, essays
by Richard Saville and Nina Fishman on
nationalisation are especially recommended.)
Jim Fyrth (ed)
Labour's promised land? : culture and society in
Labour Britain, 1945-51 (1995). (Sequel to the
above.)
P.S. Gupta
'Imperialism and the Labour governments 1945-51'
in J.M. Winter (ed.), The working Class in Modern
British History (1983), pp. 98-120.
Robert Harris Attlee (1982), esp chs 17-20, 24-5
Peter Hennessy,
Never Again (readable general history).
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