For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Labour Party

November 2023 Issue

Chris Renwick

From Colliery to Wing Collars

The Men of 1924: Britain’s First Labour Government

By Peter Clark

Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain

By Richard Toye

September 2022 Issue

Anne Perkins

Machiavelli in a Gannex

Harold Wilson: The Winner

By Nick Thomas-Symonds

September 2020 Issue

Daniel Todman

The Importance of Being Ernie

Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill

By Andrew Adonis

December 2018 Issue

Robert Colls

Equality Knocks

Left for Dead? The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party

By Lewis Goodall

A Useable Past, Volume 2: A New Life – The Religion of Socialism in Britain 1883–1896. Alternatives to State Socialism

By Stephen Yeo

February 1980 Issue

Bernard Crick

Political Memoirs

September 1987 Issue

George Stern

Still Aboard the Sinking Ship

If Voting Changed Anything, They'd Abolish it

By Ken Livingstone

November 1979 Issue

David Owen

Hugh Gaitskell

Hugh Gaitskell

By Philip Williams

December 1981 Issue

Jack Straw

Split Personalities

Breaking the Mould?

By Ian Bradley

John Godfrey

A Beacon on the Port Bow

Politics is for People

By Shirley Williams

October 1990 Issue

Francis Wheen

Dirty Dick Pikeman

Crossman: The Pursuit of Power

By Anthony Howard

January 1988 Issue

Paul Foot

Lost in the Post

Out of The Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-1967

By Tony Benn

April 2014 Issue

Simon Heffer

More Claret than Red

Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life

By John Campbell