Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party by Richard Jobson

Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party by Richard Jobson

Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues that Labour's nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of Britain. -- .

‘The struggle to try and get the Labour Party “face the future”, as our 1945 manifesto was titled, has — irony of ironies — its own rich historyRichard Jobson's fascinating study, Nostalgia and the post-war Labour Party, documents this thoroughly.’
Bridget Phillipson MP, New Statesman

‘A serious contribution to the understanding of struggles within the Labour Party [which] raises significant questions about how parties engage with their own past to their advantage and disadvantage and how the past informs and sometimes perhaps restricts current politics. Most importantly, it shows that nostalgia is not simply an issue for the right, for Brexit and Trump voters, but is a charge that the left too has to deal with.’
Tobias Becker, History Workshop Journal

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Richard Jobson is a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British History at the University of Exeter

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ISBN 13	9781526113313
ISBN 10	1526113317
Title	Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party
Author	Richard Jobson
Series	Manchester University Press
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	2021-09-14
Number of pages	232
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