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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.
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.
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
Fresh thinking and new interpretations of Labour’s past from today’s leading historians – and demonstrates how a better understanding of Labour’s history can help shape a more progressive future.
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.
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.
*Patrick Maguire, Political Reporter for The Times, author of Left
Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn*
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.
*Robert Saunders, Reader in British History, Queen Mary University
of London, author of Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and
Seventies Britain*
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.
*Frederick Harry Pitts, Lecturer in Work, University of Bristol,
author of Corbynism: A Critical Approach*
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.
*Charles Clarke, former Labour Home Secretary, editor of British
Labour Leaders*
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.
*Dianne Hayter, former General Secretary of the Fabian Society,
author of Fightback! Labour’s traditional right in the 1970s and
1980s*
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