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Labour and the Countryside - The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939 (Hardcover)
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Labour and the Countryside - The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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The common reputation of the British Labour Party has always been
as 'a thing of the town', an essentially urban phenomenon which has
failed to engage with the rural electorate or identify itself with
rural issues. Yet during the inter-war years, Labour viewed the
countryside as a crucial electoral battleground - even claiming
that the party could never form a majority administration without
winning a significant number of seats across rural Britain.
Committing itself to a series of campaigns in rural areas during
the 1920s and 30s, Labour developed a rural and often specifically
agricultural programme on which to attract new support and members.
Labour and the Countryside takes this forgotten chapter in the
party's history as a starting point for a fascinating and
wide-ranging re-examination of the relationship between the British
Left and rural Britain. The first account of this aspect of
Labour's history, this book draws on extensive research across a
wide variety of original source material, from local party minutes
and trade union archives to the records of Labour's first two
periods in government. Historical, literary, and visual
representations of the countryside are also examined, along with
newspapers, magazines, and propaganda materials. In reconstructing
the contexts within which Labour attempted to redefine itself as a
voice for the countryside, the resulting study presents a fresh
perspective on the political history of the inter-war years.
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