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  • THE FOOTBALL POOLS AND THE BRITISH WORKING CLASS
    KEITH LAYBOURN
    This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, partly as a result of the National Lottery. The book explores how this new gambli...

    $1,160.00

  • THE INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, 1914-1939
    KEITH LAYBOURN
    Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political development is the work of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), which was a formative influence in the growth of the political Labo...

    $1,240.00

  • LIBERALISM AND THE RISE OF LABOUR 1890-1918
    KEITH LAYBOURN / JACK REYNOLDS
    First published in 1984. This book is a detailed study of the way in which the growing Labour movement gradually ousted the Liberals in West Yorkshire between 1890 and 1924. It demonstrates the basis of old Liberalism and the strength of local non-conformity, and its powerful links with the textile and engineering industries. It shows how the Liberalism of this district was dom...

    $980.00

  • MARXISM IN BRITAIN
    KEITH LAYBOURN
    Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50,000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5,000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organisations experienced a very similar decline, although there has been a late flowering of Marxism in Scotland. Based on the ...

    $860.00