This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back from the dead, capturing and explaining the significance of the various Churchill myths to Britain's history and current politics. The authors look at Churchill's portrayal in social memory. They demonstrate the ways in which politicians have often used the idea of Churchill as a means of self-validation - using him to show themselves as tough and honest players. They show the man dramatized in film and television - an onscreen persona that is often the product of a gratuitous mixing of fact and fantasy, one deliberately shaped to meet the preferences of the presumed audience. They discuss his legacy in light of the Brexit debate - showing how public figures on both sides of the Leave/Remain debate were able to use elements of Churchill's words and character to argue for their own point-of-view.

The Churchill Myths

History

Fielding, Steven

Schwarz, Bill

Toye, Richard

Europe

Oxford University Press

Steven Fielding argues that the Blair government is much less novel and distinctive than has been assumed by most commentators who have taken too much of its rhetoric at face value. Setting recent developments in a broader historical context, this major new text on the British Labour Party provides a balanced account of its present state and how it got there. The Labour Party is forever changing--though generally within long-established parameters. "New" Labour is but the latest example of this process.

The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of 'New' Labour

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Blair government is much less novel and distinctive than has been assumed by most commentators who have, Steven Fielding argues, taken too much of its rhetoric at face value. Setting recent developments in a broader historical context, this major new text on the British Labour Party provides a balanced account of its present state and how it got there. The Labour Party is forever changing - though generally within long-established parameters. 'New' Labour is but the latest example of this process.

Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of 'New' Labour

Legal Theory & Systems

Red Globe Press

The 1940s marked a crucial turning point in modern British history. The Second World War disrupted normal patterns of social life and generated an unprecedented public support for radical policies which were to shape government legislation for decades ahead. In 1945 the Labour Party won a landslide election victory and went on to implement an unparalleled reform programme. Labour's triumph raised the possibility in the minds of many party members that the British public, radicalised by fighting Nazism, was ready to help build socialism. "England Arise!" focuses on the Labour Party during this, the most successful phase in its history. The book questions the comforting myths which shroud the decade and goes beyond studying the thoughts and actions of the party's "great and good". Instead, it reconstructs the world view of Labour members and reveals the extent to which the British public, whilst voting Labour, rejected the party's vision of a socialist society. "England Arise!" challenges the conventional view of the 1940s and puts the Labour Party's 1945 victory into a broader context.

England Arise!: The Labour Party and Popular Politics in 1940s Britian

THOMPSON, Peter

Tiratsoo, Nick

Manchester Univ Pr

Book by Fielding, Steven, Thompson, Peter, Tiratsoo, Nick

England Arise!: The Labour Party and Popular Politics in 1940s Britain

World

This book is the first in the new series The Labour governments, 1964-70 and concentrates on Britain's domestic policy during Harold Wilson's tenure as Prime Minister. The book deals, in particular, with how the Labour government and Labour party as a whole tried to come to terms with the 1960s cultural revolution. It is grounded in original research, takes unique account of responses from Labour's grass roots and from Wilson's ministerial colleagues, and constructs a total history of the party at this critical moment in history. Steven Fielding situates Labour in its wider cultural context and focuses on how the party approached issues such as the apparent transformation of the class structure, the changing place of women, rising black immigration, the widening generation gap and increasing calls for direct participation in politics.

The Labour Governments 1964-70, Volume 1: Labour and Cultural Change (The Labour Governments 1964 - 1970) (NO. 1)

Manchester University Press

A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to 'The Thick of It'

A State of Play explores how the British have imagined their politics, from the parliament worship of Anthony Trollope to the cynicism of The Thick of It. In an account that mixes historical with political analysis, Steven Fielding argues that fictional depictions of politics have played an important but insidious part in shaping how the British think about their democracy and have helped ventilate their many frustrations with Westminster. He shows that dramas and fictions have also performed a significant role in the battle of ideas, in a way undreamt of by those who draft party manifestos. The book examines the work of overtly political writers have treated the subject, discussing the novels of H.G. Wells, the comedy series Yes, Minister and the plays of David Hare. However, it also assesses how less obvious sources, such as the films of George Formby, the novels of Agatha Christie, the Just William stories and situation comedies like Steptoe and Son, have reflected on representative democracy.  A State of Play is an invaluable, distinctive and engaging guide to a new way of thinking about Britain's political past and present.

A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to The Thick of It

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Bloomsbury Academic

The Wilson Governments, 1964-1970

Coopey, Richard

UNKNO

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