Bibliography

A useful recent study - with an excellent bibliography - is A. Thorpe, A History of the British Labour Party (1997). Among other general accounts are H. Pelling, A Short History of the Labour Party (11th edn, 1996), K. Layboum, The Rise of Labour: The British Labour Party, 1890-1979 (1988), and C.F. Brand, The British Labour Party: A Short History (Stanford, CA, 1965). P. Adelman, The Rise of the Labour Party 1880-1945 (3rd edn, 1996) is concise and contains basic documents. K. Laybourn, The Labour Party 1881-1951: A Reader in History (Gloucester, 1991) also has useful documents. R. Miliband, Parliamentary Socialism (2nd edn, 1972) is very critical but has a mass of fascinating detail and argument. J. Hinton, Labour and Socialism: A History of the British Labour Movement (Brighton, 1983), and D. Howell, British Social Democracy: A Study in Development and Decay (1976), both take a critical position. For the cultural background against which Labour developed - in England at least - R. McKibbin, Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 (Oxford, 1998) is valuable. K. Burgess, The Challenge of Labour. Shaping British Society 1850-1930 (1980) provides an economic and industrial as well as political background. G.D.H. Cole, History of the Labour Party from 1914 (1948) gives useful coverage of the 1920s and 1930s. Moving the story forward are C. Cook and I. Taylor (eds), The Labour Party: An Introduction to its History, Struc­ ture and Politics (1980), K. Jefferys, The Labour Party since 1945 (1992) and E. Shaw, The Labour Party since 1945 (Oxford, 1996), which gives a decidedly critical view. See also, A. Warde, Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War (Manches­ ter, 1982).