Baldwin, Anne

Class, Culture and Community: New Perspectives in Nineteenth and Twentieth Cent…

by Laybourn, Keith, Baldwin, Anne, Etheridge, Stephen, Ellis, Chris, Pye, Neil

0 Type: Book

In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into ge…

Class, Culture and Community: New Perspectives in Nineteenth and Twentieth Cent…

by Laybourn, Keith, Baldwin, Anne, Etheridge, Stephen, Ellis, Chris, Pye, Neil

0 Type: Book

In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into ge…

This work has three core aims; to quantify the extent to which women stood as council candidates and were elected between 1918 and 1938; to assess the influences on the backgrounds of women seeking election in that period; and to examine a sample of women elected to determine ho…