Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 90 (2025), Issue 3

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read the reviews.

Matthew Stibbe reviews Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian, London and New York: Verso, 2025, pp. x + 308, h/b, £35, ISBN 978 18397 60778

Bill Longshaw reviews Nick Mansfield and Martin Wright, Made by Labour, A Material and Visual History of British Labour c.1780–1924, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2025, pp. xv + 262, p/b, £18.99, ISBN 978 18377 23416

Joan Allen reviews Rhian E. Jones, Rebecca’s Country: A Welsh Story of Riot and Resistance, Cardiff: Calon Press, 2024, pp. 267, h/b, £18.99, ISBN: 978 19152 79743

Olivier Coquelin reviews Gerard Hanley, Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922–46, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024, pp. 232, h/b, €45, ISBN 978 18015 10783

Karen Hunt reviews Alun Burge, Minnie Pallister: The Voice of a Rebel, Cardigan: Parthian Books, 2023, pp. viii + 368, h/b, £20, ISBN 978 19145 95790

Stephen Hopkins reviews Maurice J. Casey, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, London: Footnote Press, 2024, pp. 404, h/b, £22, ISBN 978 18044 40995

Mike Mecham reviews James Crossley, A.L. Morton and the Radical Tradition, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, pp. 432, h/b, £110, ISBN 978 30317 35875

Quentin Outram reviews Phil Child, The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation: In Place of Squalor, London: Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. viii + 222, h/b, £85, ISBN 978 13504 23435

Martin Wright reviews Nye Davies, The Political Thought of Aneurin Bevan, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2024, pp. 272, p/b, £24.99, ISBN 978 18377 21412

Keith Gildart reviews Jim Phillips, Coalfield Justice: The 1984–85 Miners’ Strike in Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp. ix + 238, p/b, £14.99, ISBN 978 13995 36509


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