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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820515703321

Autore

Laybourn Keith

Titolo

Fifty key figures in twentieth-century British politics / / Keith Laybourn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-58873-9

1-134-58874-7

1-280-31784-1

0-203-46545-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Routledge key guides

Disciplina

941.0820922

Soggetti

Politicians - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Herbert Henry Asquith -- Nancy Astor -- Clement Attlee -- Stanley Baldwin -- Arthur James Balfour -- Lord Beaverbrook -- Aneurin Bevan -- William Beveridge -- Ernest Bevin -- Tony Blair -- Richard Austen Butler -- James Callaghan -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman -- Edward Carson -- Barbara Castle -- Joseph Chamberlain -- Neville Chamberlain -- Sir Winston Churchill -- Walter Citrine -- Sir Stafford Cripps -- Anthony Crosland -- Hugh Dalton -- Sir Anthony Eden -- Michael Foot -- Hugh Gaitskell -- Edward Grey -- Keir Hardie -- Edward Heath -- Arthur Henderson -- Sir Samuel Hoare -- Sir Alec Douglas Home -- Sir Keith Joseph -- John Maynard Keynes -- Neil Kinnock -- George Lansbury -- Andrew Bonar Law -- David Lloyd George -- James Ramsay MacDonald -- Harold Macmillan -- John Major -- Herbert Morrison -- Oswald Mosley -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Harry Pollitt -- Enoch Powell -- Sir Herbert Samuel -- Sir John Simon -- Margaret Thatcher -- Ellen Wilkinson -- Harold Wilson.

Sommario/riassunto

This accessible guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history.