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"What About the Rentiers:?" The Formation of the National Government (1931), Part II
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The Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is one of the two main political party in the United Kingdom along with the Conservative Party. Here is a profile of the party.
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Labour and Hitler's Rise to Power, 1933-34
Hitler's rise to power in Germany and the consolidation of his regime between Jan. 1933 and July-Aug. 1934 was a source of much consternation among left parties and political organizations throughout Europe. This article examines the impact Hitler had on the British Labour Party, and how it led to, regarding the party's foreign policy and outlook, some movement away from pacifism.

Biography of Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a British politician and is best known for being the Prime Minister of Britain during World War Two.
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The Labour Party and the Spanish Civil War, Part I
First part of a two-part series on the British Labour Party and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
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The Labour Party and the Spanish Civil War, Part II
Part II of a two-part series on the British Labour Party and the Spanish Civil War. (1936-39)
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"Far Away Places:" Anschluss, Munich and Labour, 1938, Part II
Labour played an important role in opposition to Munich, a role seldom realized by many today. This 3-part series lays out the Labour Party role in the debate, amid much background information on Munich itself.
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"Far Away Places:" Anschluss, Munich and Labour, 1938, Part III
Labour played an important role in opposition to Munich, a role seldom realized by many today. This 3-part series lays out the Labour Party role in the debate, amid much background information on Munich itself.
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Pioneers of Free Healthcare
Michael Moore's film 'Sicko' praises Tommy Douglas as the Greatest Canadian ever, but Douglas was a Brit, just like Lord Beveridge, another hero of free healthcare.
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Building a New Jerusalem?: Labour in Power 1945-51, Part I
The post-war Attlee Government (1945-1951)--the first Labour Government to have a working majority--was one of the more important Governments of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, there is great debate among British historians over the level of this importance, and the degree of change the Government effected. This extend essay illustrates the basic arguments in this extended debate by looking at books by Corelli Barnett, Jose Harris, Kenneth Morgan and David Vincent.

The consequences of Appeasement
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"A Prophet Before Her Time:" Beatrice Potter Webb, Part I
Part I of three-part series on Beatrice Potter Webb, Britain's greatest political theorist of the 20th Century!!
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A Decision to Abstain: Labour vs. Hitler, 1936-7, Part 1
Between 1935 and 1937, a major transformation took place within the Labour Party regarding its policies toward rearmament, Appeasement and Hitler. During this time, the Party jettisoned its prior policies of disarmament and collective security through the League of Nations and instead, by 1937, accepted the fact that rearmament was needed if Britain were to stand up to Hitler. Part I of a two part series.
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A Decision to Abstain: Labour vs. Hitler, 1936-7, Part II
Between 1935 and 1937, a major transformation took place within the Labour Party regarding its policies toward rearmament, Appeasement and Hitler. During this time, the Party jettisoned its prior policies of disarmament and collective security through the League of Nations and instead, by 1937, accepted the fact that rearmament was needed if Britain were to stand up to Hitler. Part II of a two part series.
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The Curtain in the Gym
With a speech entitled "The Sinews of Peace" former Prime Minister Winston Churchill insures tiny Fulton, Missouri, a place in history.
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A League of Nations, For Nations? Part II
Part II of a two-part series about the pivotal 1935 Labour Party Annual Conference, held at Brighton, England, where the parliamentary leader, George Lansbury, an absolute pacifist was ousted from leadership, and pacifism was thoroughly rejected as party policy.
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