This title explores the development of the Labour Party's policy on higher education from 1945 to 2000. The book questions the place higher education has occupied within Labour ideology.
Patrick Diamond considers a wide range of Anthony Crosland's (1918-1977) writings, relating his ideas to ideological debates taking place within today's Labour Party on egalitarian social democracy, electoral strategy, the European question, and the importance of progressive lib…
'Labour and Cultural Change' concentrates on Britain's domestic policy during Harold Wilson's tenure as Prime Minister, dealing in particular, with how the Labour government and Labour party as a whole tried to come to terms with the 1960s cultural revolution.
Revealing much about the history of the Labour Party, this collection of essays by distinguished scholars and politicians compares the post-Thatcher Labour Party with the old party as it was in the days of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. It provides a context with which to ju…