{"product_id":"9781472992307","title":"Age of Hope : Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Toye, Richard (University of Exeter, UK) \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/10\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages, Black and white photographs throughout,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781472992307,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive history of the Labour party from one of the brightest young historians of 20th century Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2024 marks the centenary of the first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald. What legacy of the past have they left behind? How far has each Labour administration influenced succeeding administrations?  Above all, was the Attlee government of 1945 really the golden period of Labour power?Professor Richard Toye explores Labour’s exercise of power as a continuum, setting Attlee’s administration in long-term historical context between the first Labour Government of 1924 and the current party under Keir Starmer. Within this context he shows why the Attlee administration matters so much and how successive Labour governments have fashioned it in their own image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this story are woven the foundation of the Labour Party in 1900, the First World War, the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War and the coalition war-time government under Churchill. Also discussed are the great names of Labour history: Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee himself, Ernest Bevin, Aneurin Bevan, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson and Ellen Wilkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering Labour's history all the way up to the present - including Wilson and Blair's attempts to wrap themselves in Attlee’s mantle and Corbyn’s version of Attlee focussed on the NHS and the welfare state - Age of Hope is an incisive, informative look at a political party that has been fundamental in shaping modern Britain and will be equally instrumental in its future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41781308031020,"sku":"9781472992307","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781472992307.jpg?v=1759661557","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781472992307","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}