Labour, British radicalism and the First World War / edited by Lucy Bland and Richard Carr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bland, Lucy, editor.

Carr, Richard, 1985- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain)--History--20th century.

Labour Party (Great Britain).

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

World War, 1914-1918.

Radicalism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1910-1936.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages). : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War.

Contents:

Introduction / Lucy Bland and Richard Carr

1. Peace, but not at any price: British socialists' calls for peace on the eve of World War One / Marcus Morris

2. At the crossroads: the Labour Party, the trade unions and the choices of direction for the democratic Left / Chris Wrigley

3. 'One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House': the passage of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 / Mari Takayanagi

4. Labour and socialism during the Great War in Bristol and Northampton / Matthew Kidd

5. A stronghold of liberalism? The north-east Lancashire cotton weaving districts and the First World War / Jack Southern

6. Living through war, waging peace: comparing Mary Macarthur and Sylvia Pankhurst / Deborah Thom

7. 'Industrial unionism for women': Ellen Wilkinson and the unionisation of shop workers, 1915-18 / Matt Perry

8. The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism: gender, militarism and collective action in the British Women's Corps / Krisztina Robert

9. Charlie Chaplin's war: a British radical in tumultuous times / Richard Carr

10. Irish Labour and the 'Cooperative Commonwealth' in the era of the Great War / Marc Mulholland

11. Russia's war and revolutions as seen by Morgan Philips Price and Arthur Henderson / Jonathan Davis

12. The Stanford connection: David Starr Jordan, eugenics and the Anglo-American anti-war movement / Gavin Baird and Bradley W. Hart

13. The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles / John Callaghan

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 8, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526109309

1526109301

9781526136015

1526136015

9781526109316

152610931X

OCLC:

1240720788