British Political History, 1867–2001

Malcolm Pearce, Geoffrey Stewart

• 1. Introduction: Britain in 1867 2. The Gladstonian Liberal Party 1868–95 3. The Conservative Party 1868–1905: The Regaining of Power 4. Ireland 1868–1922: Province or Nation? 5. Britain and the World 1867–1905: The Onset of Decline 6. The Liberal Party After Gladstone: Recovery, Triumph and Death 1895–1935 7. The Rise of Labour 1867–1940 8. British Foreign Policy 1905–45: The German Question 9. Britain between the Wars 10. The Conservative Party of the Chamberlains 1906–40 11. Socialist Britain 1940–51: The Home Front 12. Consensus Britain 1951–79 13. Thatcher's Britain – 120 Years on – 1979–90 14. Towards the New Millennium: Britain 1990–2001 15. Britain and the World 1945–2001: The 'New Elizabethan Age'

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