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  Atlee, Clement
Blair, Tony
  Callaghan, James
MacDonald, James Ramsay
  Wilson, Harold

  Benn, Tony
Bevan, Aneurin Nye
  Foot, Michael
Hardie, Keir
  Jenkins, Roy
Mowlam, Mo


Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History links, articles and topics at Suite101.com
A series of articles on the history of the Labour Party from its origin through to the beginning of the Second World War.

Chartism or The Chartist Movement
Detailed examination of the movement that shook up British politics in the 1830s and 1840s.

Anthony Crosland
Review of a book about Crosland, Cabinet minister and leader of Labour's right wing in the 1970s, by former Labour Foreign Secretary and founder of the SDP, David Owen.

Ernest Bevin (1881-1951)
Information about Clement Atlee's Foreign Secretary.

Richard Stafford Cripps (1889-1952)
Biographical information about the founder of Tribune and post-war Labour minister.

How the Labour Party was formed
A Marxist view on the origins of the Labour Party and its early history from the magazine Socialism Today.

Chris Hemming Labour and socialist history
Resource for Labour party history.

People's History Museum
The national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain includes the Labour History Archive & Study Centre.

LSE influence
Article on the influence of the London School of Economics on British politics and the Labour Party in particular.

BBC NEWS Labour's PMs of the past
BBC News Online looks at the life and times of Labour past prime ministers.


Reference: Encyclopedias: Subject Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: Socialism and the Labour Movement
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