Dictionary of Labour Biography

The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth-century British history. Volume XII maintains this standard of original and thorough scholarship. Each entry draws on primary sources, engages with the most recent historiography and is supported by an appropriate bibliography. The coverage emphasizes the ethnic and national diversity of British labour, the contribution of women and neglected political traditions including Trotskyism. Special notes on Keep Left and the Nenni Telegram offer new insights into the politics of the 1940s.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes to Readers List of Contributors List of Bibliographies and Special Notes Biographies Consolidated List of Names in Volumes I-XII General Index

About the Author :
ALAN CAMPBELL School of History, University of Liverpool, UK STEPHEN CATTERALL University of Huddersfield, UK MALCOLM CHASE Department of Continuing Education, University of Leeds, UK KRISTA COWMAN Faculty of Arts, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK RALPH DARLINGTON School of Management, University of Salford, UK GARY R. ENTZ Department of History, McPherson College, Kansas, USA JAMES GREGORY Department of History, University of Southampton, UK ANTONY HOWE Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia KEVIN JEFFERYS Department of History, University of Plymouth, UK NICK MANSFIELD National Museum of Labour History, Manchester, UK ROBERT POOLE St. Martin's College, Lancaster, UK ARCHIE POTTS Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK BOB PURDIE Ruskin College Oxford, Oxford, UK CHRISTOPHER J. WALKER London, UK ANDREW WHITEHEAD BBC, World Service, London, UK CHRIS WRIGLEY Department of History, University of Nottingham, UK

Review :
Reviews of previous volumes: Volume III '...fascinating picture of the richness and diversity of the British labour tradition.' - The Times Volume VI 'The Dictionary becomes more valuable as it progresses...the work remains a monument to scholarship and the British people.' - Professor E.J. Hobsbawm, New Society Volume VII 'The Dictionary is now well estabilshed as a central source for details of careers and bibliographic information.' - Dr H.C.G. Matthew, English Historical Review Volume VIII 'The Dictionary of Labour Biography continues on its course (the first volume appeared in 1972) and with each successive volume becomes more and more valuable...The Dictionary is of course far more than a collection of biographical entries. It is a huge pot-pourri of labour, socialist, radical and popular history.' - Professor J.F.C. Harrison, Labour History Review Volume IX '...Tych, author of the biographical dictionary of the Polish workers' movement, recently remarked of the DLB, in conversation among a group of participants at the Linz conference [of labour historians] that it is 'simply the best'...Tych's command of European languages and familiarity with the other dictionaries...and the general respect in which he is held, gave authority to the statement.' - John Halstead, Labour History Review