POLI20532 Course Outline 1112 - School of Social Sciences

POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12
8.4 Supplementary reading
Norman Barry
‘New Right’ in K Hickson, The Political Thought of
the Conservative Party Since 1945 (2005), ch. 2
Stephen Evans
‘The Not So Odd Couple: Margaret Thatcher and
One Nation Conservatism’, Contemporary British
History, 23, 1, 2009, 101–121
Andrew Gamble
“The Conservative Party” in H. Drucker (ed) Multi-
Party Britain (1979)
Andrew Gamble
The Free Economy & the Strong State: The Politics
of Thatcherism (1994 edn)
Ian Gilmour
Dancing with Dogma, 1992 (critique of Thatcher’s
politics by the most articulate of the Tory ‘wets’)
R.W. Johnson
The Politics of Recession (1985), pp. 224-55: ‘Pomp
and circumstance’
D Kavanagh
‘The making of Thatcherism’ in Anthony Seldon &
Stuart Ball (eds), Recovering Power: The Conservatives
in Opposition since 1867 (2005), ch. 10
David Marsh
The New Politics of British Trade Unionism: union
power and the Thatcher legacy (1992), chs 5, 10
K Minogue & M Biddiss Thatcherism: personality and politics (1985)
P Riddell The Thatcher Era and its Legacy (1991)
D Marquand The Unprincipled Society (1988)
Nigel Lawson
The View from No. 11 (1993 edn) (one of several
autobiographies by members of Thatcher’s cabinet;
Lawson as chancellor was a key figure in the later
phases of Thatcherism)
S Ludlam & M Smith Contemporary British Conservatism, 1996.
Mark Wickham-Jones, ‘Right Turn: a revisionist account of the 1975
Conservative leadership election’, Twentieth Century
British History, 8, 1 (1997).
The 1984-5 miners' strike alone generated a substantial literature:
Huw Beynon (ed.) Digging Deeper: issues in the miners' strike (1985).
Peter Gibbon
'Analysing the British miners' strike of 1984-5',
Economy and Society, May 1988.
Geoffrey Goodman The Miners' Strike (1985).
8.5 Exam preparation
In the first weeks of the course successive phases of British politics has been associated with
a particular theme or problematic, namely consensus (1940s), affluence (1950s),
modernisation (1960s) and ungovernability (1970s). In the same way, the 1980s was
indisputably the decade of ‘Thatcherism’. What Thatcherism represented, however, has been
a matter of some dispute. The lecture introduces four early readings that have had a
considerable influence on subsequent discussions. You will need to be familiar with these at
least in the summary form presented in the lecture and should also familiarise yourself with at
least one of these readings in greater depth. However, an effective exam answer will not
merely describe competing interpretations; it will also provide the sorts of empirical evidence
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