Short History of the Labour Party

HENRY PELLING was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. His books include The Labour Governments 1945-51, Winston Churchill, and Britain and the Marshall Plan. He died in 1997. ALASTAIR J. REID is a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. He is the author of Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain 1850-1914 and Currents of Radicalism: Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics 1850-1914 (co-edited with Eugenio F. Biagini).

• List of Illustrations The New Party: Ideals and Reality (to 1906) A Pressure-Group under Pressure (1906-14) Henderson's Party: War and Reconstruction (1914-22) The MacDonald Leadership (1922-31) Convalescence: The General Council's Party (1931-40) Office and Power under Attlee and Bevin (1940-50) Dissension and Decline (1950-60) The Road Back to Power (1960-66) Wilson and the Vicissitudes of Economic Insolvency (1966-70) The Common Market and the Social Contract (1970-79) The SDP Secession and the Dream Ticket (1979-84) Revival under Kinnock and Smith and Blair (1985-94) Blair and New Labour (1994-2001) The Primacy of Foreign Policy (2001-2004) Conclusion: The Past and the Future Appendix A: Party Membership Appendix B: General Election Results Appendix C: Chairmen and Leaders of the Parliamentary Party Appendix D: Party Secretaries Index