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The Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn is charting a new direction. Here, Nathan Yeowell has brought together a remarkable array of contributors to provide expert insight into twentieth-century British history and Labour politics – and how they might shape thinking about Labour’s future. Reframing the span of Labour history and its effects on contemporary British politics, the book provides fresh thinking and analysis of various traditions, themes and individuals. These include the shifting significance of 1945, the need for more grounded interpretations of Tony Blair’s legacy, and the enduring importance of place, identity and aspiration to the evolution of the party. Contributions from leading historians such as Patrick Diamond, Steven Fielding, Ben Jackson, Glen O’ Hara and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite are supplemented by those with experience of Labour electoral politics, such as Rachel Reeves and Nick Thomas-Symonds. The result is an intellectually rich and politically relevant roadmap for Labour's future.

Table of Contents:
List of contributors Acknowledgements ForewordRachel Reeves Part I 1. Introduction: Rethinking Labour’s past - Nathan Yeowell 2. The Disenchantment of the Labour Party: Socialism, Liberalism and Progressive History - Ben Jackson Part II 3. ‘A party not unlike the Democrats’: Labour, the Left, and encounters in America from the New Deal to the New Frontier - Richard Carr 4. The Shifting Significance of ‘The Spirit of ‘45’ - Steven Fielding 5. The Fall and Rise of Harold Wilson - Glen O’Hara 6. Crosland in the seventies: revisionist social democracy in a cold climate - Patrick Diamond Part III 7. Municipal socialism and municipal feminism: women and local Labour politics from the 1900s to the 1980s - Krista Cowman 8. Social democracy, the decline of community, and community politics in post-war Britain - Nick Garland 9. Linking up Labour: place, community and buses in 1980s Sheffield - Daisy Payling 10. Race and the left, from protest to power? The story of Black Sections - Robin Bunce and Samara Linton 11. ‘This party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing’: foreign aid and Labour’s ethical identity - Charlotte Lydia Riley Part IV 12. ‘What did the 1983 manifesto ever do for us?’ - Colm Murphy 13. Neil Kinnock: a reassessment - Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam 14. Past, present and future: Tony Blair and the political legacy of New Labour - Andrew Hindmoor and Karl Pike 15. Renewal beyond New Labour: from the LCC to Corbynomics - George Morris, Emily Robinson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Part V 16. The Labour Party and aspiration - Jeremy Nuttall 17. Conclusion: shaping Labour’s future - Nick Thomas-Symonds

About the Author :
Nathan Yeowell is Executive Director of Progressive Britain - the platform for policymaking, political education and imaginative thinking to rebuild Labour and the Nation. Prior to this, he was Head of Policy and External Affairs at the social sector think-tank New Philanthropy Capital and Head of the Labour Group Office at the Local Government Association.

Review :
The book all wings of the Labour Party have needed for years. Lively, rigorous, and robust, Nathan Yeowell has assembled a timely corrective to the factional mythmaking that is too often an impediment to the candour required to make sense of a contested history. Those serious about interrogating the party’s traditions – and remaking them for the 2020s – should start here. A breath of fresh air. A captivating, kaleidoscopic collection, packed with fresh thinking and new insights. Few volumes range as widely across Labour history, or bring together such an impressive range of authors. Rethinking Labour’s Past is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present or future of the Labour Party. Charting how leaders, intellectuals and activists navigated previous hinge points in Labour history, this excellent collection reconnects the party’s present period of transition with those of generations past. Its cast of contributors showing renewed signs of life on the centre-left, Rethinking Labour’s Past reveals how, for successive modernizers, the starting point has been to first interpret a shifting world as a springboard to change it. If Labour is again to win political power it faces hard choices, as it has in the past. The essays in this well-written volume show how Labour has succeeded when it has faced up to those challenges, and not ducked them – and why it has to do that again now. As a historian, a Fabian and, latterly, a bit-player in some of this, I found every section a learning experience, and only regret this street map was not available earlier.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780755640171
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: I.B. Tauris
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0755640179
  • Publisher Date: 10 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 680 gr


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