Tag: General Election

Labour History Review

Boundary Review and the Organization and Identity of the Peterborough Divisional Labour Party

Author: Scott RawlinsonThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (2). Read more. The subdivision of larger territories into electoral districts is designed to enable representation for district populations in the national legislative body. This article establishes that spatial-type reforms such as the redrawing of electoral district boundaries can have profound and long-lasting, but often overlooked, organizational and ideational effects on local … Continue reading Boundary Review and the Organization and Identity of the Peterborough Divisional Labour Party

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‘Labour Romps Home’ in last black and white general election

In 1966, the last general election to be captured on black and white newsreel by British Pathé saw Harold Wilson’s Labour government win a landslide victory, taking 48% of the vote and winning an overall majority of 98. A newsreel from election night shows revellers thronging Trafalgar Square and splashing through the fountains, while at the party’s headquarters in Transport House, Minister of Labour Ray … Continue reading ‘Labour Romps Home’ in last black and white general election

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Ten labour history anniversaries in 2024

The American historian William M Johnston talked in his book Celebrations about a ‘cult’ of anniversaries. And he noted how they provide an opportunity – or excuse – to mark the passage of time in ways that help communities to build and sustain a sense of identity. For many in the labour movement, there could be no bigger anniversary in 2024 than the centenary of … Continue reading Ten labour history anniversaries in 2024

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Ticket to Ryde: how Labour’s leaders took a weekend break to write a manifesto

By the spring of 1949, the post-war Labour government had already delivered great swathes of the manifesto on which it had been elected less that four years earlier. The Bank of England had been in public ownership since 1946; the railways, coal industry and road freight had all been nationalized; and the National Health Service was up and running. All of which raised the question … Continue reading Ticket to Ryde: how Labour’s leaders took a weekend break to write a manifesto

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