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  • The Football Pools and the British Working Class
    Keith Laybourn
    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. ...
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    77,31 €

  • The Ascott Martyrs
    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 rece...
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    23,63 €

  • The Football Pools and the British Working Class
    Keith Laybourn
    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. ...
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    268,04 €

  • The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
    Keith Laybourn
    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. The following monograph analyses the dynamic shifts in this history across 25 years. ...
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    82,65 €

  • The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
    Keith Laybourn
    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. The following monograph analyses the dynamic shifts in this history across 25 years. ...
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    267,97 €

  • Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918
    Jack Reynolds / Keith Laybourn
    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 dom...
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    65,17 €

  • Labour and working-class lives
    John Shepherd / Keith Laybourn
    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 ris...
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    36,94 €

  • Going to the dogs
    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 m...
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    157,39 €

  • Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918
    Jack Reynolds / Keith Laybourn
    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. ...
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    241,01 €

  • The Battle for the Roads of Britain
    David Taylor / Keith Laybourn
    The onset of the automobile, both cars and other vehicles, on British roads brought about a seismic change in the social, economic and political history of Britain. Cars fundamentally challenged the established democracy of the road by forcing the authorities to channel the pedestrian, and children, out of the way of the unforgiving automobile and educating them in exercising r...
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    65,12 €

  • Britain’s First Labour Government
    John Shepherd / Keith Laybourn
    Eighty years ago Ramsay MacDonald took office as the first British Labour Prime Minister, the placards announcing LENIN DEAD, RAMSAY MACDONALD PREMIER. The judgement of historians on this short-lived minority administration in 1924, dependant on Liberal parliamentary votes, has often been ’in office, but not in power’. The First Labour Government is the first major account for ...
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    66,36 €

  • Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39
    David Taylor / Keith Laybourn
    An examination of the modernization of the English and Welsh police during the interwar years, focusing upon the increasing professionalization of the police, the Federation, forensic work and the growth of traffic policing. The authors challenge the established viewpoint by arguing that this period saw significant changes in policing. ...
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    65,03 €

  • Marxism in Britain
    Keith Laybourn
    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...
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    169,55 €