Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), Issue 1 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats.

The Labour Party has always struggled with the need to balance its internationalist principles with policy administration its immigration and refugee policy. Here, Eunjae Park looks at the 1919 Aliens Act in the context of post-war internationalism, and contends that the change in focus from pre-war advocacy of the British liberal tradition to internationalist concerns reflected both the socialist proclamation of the Labour Party and the liberal internationalism of the time. Read more.

Also in this issue, Christopher Massey provides a detailed study of the parliamentary career of Alfred Edwards, MP for Middlesbrough East from 1935 to 1950 – and in particular his campaign against the Attlee Government’s policy of steel industry nationalization. Read more.

In an essay which won the Labour History Review essay prize for 2023, Manuel Herrera Crespo examines the ‘global 1989’ from the vantage point of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). Read more.

This issue also includes book reviews by Mike Mecham, Martin Spence, Jonathan Hyslop, Gregory Billam, Jim Phillips, Jonathan Winterton, and Ewan Gibbs. Read more.

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