Cette série explore en profondeur les thèmes et événements majeurs de l'histoire britannique, essentiels pour les études de premier cycle. Chaque volume offre une exploration détaillée de périodes importantes et de mouvements sociétaux. Elle constitue une ressource inestimable pour les étudiants et les passionnés cherchant une compréhension plus approfondie de l'héritage culturel et historique de la Grande-Bretagne. Les publications mettent l'accent sur une approche analytique, offrant une vision complète de la manière dont l'histoire de l'île s'est façonnée.
Thorpe's book has established itself as the best single-volume study of the whole of the Labour party's history. Now updated in the light of recent debates, this fourth edition brings the story up to the present with a new final chapter on the Brown and Milliband years.
"Additionally, while castigated as undemocratic by its critics, the National government did manage to preserve democratic principles in Britain when they were being undermined and destroyed in much of Europe. Negatively, too, the coalition offered Churchill's wartime government of 1940 a model of co-operation between parties, which made it in many ways suspiciously similar to its lauded successor."--BOOK JACKET. "This is the first book for students on British politics of the period. It brings together a mass of specialized literature to make clear and interesting a critical decade which ended in the most severe test any British government has ever had to face."--Jacket.