Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), Issue 3 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats.

 In this issue…

Édouard Dolléans has been described as the first modern historian of Chartism. But his work, first published in France in 1912-13, is little known among students of the Chartist movement and has never been translated into English. While situating Dolléans within distinctively French intellectual traditions, Kevin Morgan also places him within a first phase of Chartist historiography that was international in character and resonates with current concerns with a transnational labour history. Read more.

After August 1931, when the second Labour government split over cuts to unemployment benefits and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald emerged at the head of a new National Government made up largely of Conservative and Liberal MPs, two enduring myths about Labour governments emerged. The first was one of betrayal, and the second of economic incompetence. It would take decades to exorcize these myths, argues Giuseppe Telesca. Read more.

From the 1970s onwards, the Labour Party struggled to adapt to the New Right as it evolved new social and welfare policies over two decades largely spent in opposition. Ben Williams traces how, in the face of electoral defeats, shifting social values and a changing economic and social model, the party transformed its approach beyond recognition. Read more.

This issue also includes book reviews by Siân Davies, Andrew Frow-Jones, Arun Kumar, John McIlroy and Ewan Gibbs. Read more.

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