ABSTRACT
During 1945 Priestley campaigned vigorously for the Labour Party, although he himself had stood unsuccessfully as an Independent candidate in a Conservative stronghold (Brome 1988: 281-2). His socialist belief – non-politically party specific – in the need for post-war social reconstruction is mapped directly on to the First World War (1912) setting of An Inspector Calls. One of Priestley’s best known and most popular plays, it is a political parable where the social and ideological concerns facing the contemporary post Second World War audience are located inside a historical setting.
