The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (1), 323-337. Read more.

Edda Nicolson reviews Matthew Roberts, Democratic Passions: The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 1809–48, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, pp. vi + 262, h/b, £80, ISBN 978 15261 37043

Colin Heywood reviews Elisabeth Anderson, Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021, pp. xvi + 362, p/b, £25, ISBN 978 06912 20895

Stefan Berger reviews James Retallack, German Social Democracy through British Eyes: A Documentary History, 1870–1914, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022, pp. xxii + 416, p/b, £25.99, ISBN 978 14875 27488

Ben Curtis reviews Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2021, pp. xii + 400, h/b, $40, ISBN 978 02267 21996; e-book PDF, $39.99, ISBN 978 02268 12601

Mike Mecham reviews Shay Cody and Charles Callan, with reflections by Padraig Yeates and Brendan Howlin, Seeking No Honours: Tom Johnson 1872–1963 and Marie Johnson 1874–1974, Dublin: Irish Labour History Society, Saothar Studies no. 5, 2021, pp. viii + 135, p/b, £10.50, ISBN 978 09560 52995

Hazel Perry reviews Roger Seifert, UNITE History Volume 2 (1932–1945). The Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU): ‘No Turning Back’, the Road to War and Welfare. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022, pp. 184, p/b, £6.99, ISBN 978 18020 76981

Daniel Frost reviews Martin R. Beveridge, The Socialist Ideal in the Labour Party from Attlee to Corbyn, Dagenham: Merlin Press, 2022, pp. 240, p/b, £14.99, ISBN 978 08503 67768

Jim Tomlinson reviews Nathan Yeowell (ed.), Rethinking Labour’s Past, London: I.B. Tauris, 2022, pp. xvi + 342, p/b, £19.99, ISBN 978 07556 40164