Labour's Promised Land? Culture and Society in Labour Britain 1945-51

Jim Fyrth (ed)

This collection of essays looks at how the politics of the 1945 government and the following Labour administration affected cultural life in Britain.

The contributors cover a range of issues: British cinema of the period, working-class consumer culture, the founding of the NHS, Labour's attempts to house and educate the heroes, literary and artistic culture, post-war feminist activism, and the response of the right to their crushing defeat.

'Thoughtful and timely'
Peter Marsh, Financial Times

Contributors: Catherine Blackford, Douglas Bourn, John Callaghan, Christine Collette, Andy Croft, Rosalind Delmar, Martin Durham, Roger Fieldhouse, Steven Fielding, Jim Fyrth, Nigel Glendinning, Steve Iliffe, Victor Kiernan, Robert Looker, Andy Medhurst, Steve Parsons, Angela Partington, Alison Ravetz, Alan Sinfield, Jonathan Wood.

Jim Fyrth was Senior Staff Tutor in History in the University of London Extra-Mural Department. He now teaches at Birkbeck College, London, Extra-Mural Centre.

Paperback, 320pp, All rights L&W
ISBN: 0 85315 811 8
ISBN13: 9780853158110
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