After 13 years in power, Labour suddenly returned to being the party of opposition in 2010. This new edition of A History of the British Labour Party brings us up-to-date, examining Gordon Brown's period in office and the Labour Party under the leadership of Ed Miliband. Andrew Thorpe's study has been the leading single-volume text on the Labour Party since its first edition in 1997 and has now been thoroughly revised throughout to include new approaches.
This new edition:
- Covers the entirety of the party's history, from 1900 to 2014.
- Examines the reasons for the party's formation, and its aims.
- Analyses the party's successes and failures, including its rise to second party status and remarkable recovery from its problems in the 1980s.
- Discusses the main events and personalities of the Labour Party, such as MacDonald, Attlee, Wilson, Blair and Brown.
With his approachable style and authoritative manner, Thorpe has created essential reading for students of political history, and anyone wishing to familiarise themselves with the history and development of one of Britain's major political parties.
- ISBN10 1137409827
- ISBN13 9781137409829
- Publish Date 29 April 2015 (first published 29 January 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 November 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Macmillan Education UK
- Imprint Red Globe Press
- Edition 4th ed. 2015
- Format Paperback
- Pages 424
- Language English