Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters

• Acknowledgements, Editor’s Note , List of Abbreviations, 1 Introduction – Neville Chamberlain – 1921–27: The Reform Years, 2 1921 – ‘To Speculate on Austen’s Position’: Backbench Frustrations and Disappointments, 3 1922 – ‘I Should Like to be Rid of the Goat’: Decline and Fall of the Coalition, 4 1923 – ‘Things Change so Quickly in Politics’: Postmaster-General, Health, the Treasury and Defeat, 5 1924 – ‘Lord! Lord! What a Funny World’: Opposition and the ‘New Conservatism’, 6 1925 – ‘I Might be a Great Minister of Health’: Pensions, Rating and Valuation, 7 1926 – ‘I am an Asset … of the Government’ West Ham, the Coal Dispute and Rural Housing, 8 1927 – ‘Everything is Going Wrong this Session’ Slums and the Frustrations of Poor Law Reform, Appendix I: The Chamberlain Household and Family, Appendix II: Primary Sources Consulted for Volume Two, Index

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