POLI20532 Course Outline 1112 - School of Social Sciences

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POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12 http://www.phm.org.uk/). For anyone intending to write extended essay or dissertation in this area, the museum also maintains an archive and study centre holding extensive collections of periodicals and pamphlets as well as the national archives of the Labour Party and British Communist Party. Admission is by appointment only (http://www.phm.org.uk/archive-studycentre/) but the archivists are extremely helpful and approachable. On the themes of racialisation and race relations the University itself maintains an important collection of materials: the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre. Again, this is an invaluable resource for anybody planning extended essays or dissertations in this area and students visiting the centre have always found the staff extremely welcoming and knowledgeable. For details see http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ahmediqbal/ C. GENERAL TEXTS There are a number of affordable texts covering the period of the course. Due to their chronological arrangement, the following providing appropriate introductory reading for weeks 2-6 and 8 of the course and available from Blackwell’s. The coverage in Morgan is probably more comprehensive. Kenneth Morgan Britain since 1945: the People’s Peace. David Childs Britain Since 1945 Other overviews that may be worth consulting include the following: Peter Clarke Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 Andrew Gamble Britain in Decline (1994 edn). David Marquand Britain Since 1918. The strange career of British Democracy (2009; on order for JRUL Jan. 2012) Arthur Marwick British Society since 1945 (1982). Rodney Lowe The Welfare State in Britain since 1945 (1999 edn) More specifically, the theme of consensus figures prominently in the course and the following provide a useful survey and a stimulating commentary respectively D. Kavanagh & P.Morris Consensus politics from Attlee to Thatcher (1989) David Marquand The Unprincipled Society C. LABOUR AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY TEXTS The first and second parts of the course deal centrally with the forms of party competition and contestation in what was predominantly a two-party system, and the role and function of the established parties of government is revisited in the final section of the course on Britain since the 1990s. While specific readings are indicated in the weekly topic guide, the following section therefore provides guidance and Labour and Conservative Party literatires going beyond particular periods or topics and providing a wide range of possible readings both for essay and for exam preparation. C(i) Labour Party texts There are several good commentaries, arranged broadly chronologically and covering roughly to the period of date of publication unless otherwise stated. The following items are the most 8
POLI20532: Course Guide 2011-12 useful texts organised by period and providing introductions to the different phases of Labour Party politics looked at in the course. John Callaghan Socialism in Britain since 1984 (1990). David Howell British Social Democracy (1979 edn). Andrew Thorpe A History of the British Labour Party (2008 edn). But if there is pressure on reading materials, there is no shortage of alternative accounts: David Coates The Labour Party and the Struggle for Socialism (1975) Steven Fielding The Labour Party : continuity and change in the making of 'New' Labour (2003) James Hinton Labour and Socialism: a history of the British Labour movement 1867-1974 (1983). Kevin Jefferys The Labour Party since 1945 (1993). (Very basic; use only as an introductory text.) Tudor Jones Remaking the Labour Party: from Gaitskell to Blair (1996) Ralph Miliband Parliamentary Socialism (1972 edn). (Marxist account by the father of the current Labour leader.) Henry Pelling A Short History of the Labour Party (1991 edn). Eric Shaw The Labour Party since 1945 (1996). Duncan Tanner et al. (eds) Labour's First Century (2000). (Includes essays on Labour and the constitution, welfare, gender, international affairs, its membership and electorate etc.) Willie Thompson The Long Death of British Labourism. Interpreting a political culture (1993). There are also a number of collections of biographical studies. Marquand's is the most illuminating. David Marquand Kenneth Morgan Kevin Jeffreys (ed.) Kevin Jefferys (ed.) The Progressive Dilemma. Labour People. Leading Labour. From Keir Hardie to Tony Blair (1999) Labour Forces. From Ernest Bevin to Gordon Brown (2002) C(ii) Conservative Party texts One collection of essays covers Conservative Party organisation, policy and ideology and includes contributions on its relations with and attitudes to women, Scotland, trade unions, industry and much more. It also includes a 50-page bibliographical essay. A. Seldon and S. Ball (eds) The Conservative Century (1994). Other useful texts include the following. Alan Clark The Tories - Conservatives and the Nation State 1922-97 (2000) A J Davies, We the Nation (1996) 9
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