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James Callaghan
In November 1980, James Callaghan retired as leader of the Labour Party. He had been on the front line of British politics for many years and was the only person to hold all of the four great offices of state. However, his premiership is seen as a failure, the last gasp of Keynesian social democracy being smothered by the oncoming advent of Thatcherism. This book offers a timely reappraisal of Jim Callaghan's premiership and time as Leader of the Opposition in 1979–80.
Callaghan
Jim Callaghan's career in British public life is unique. Starting in humble circumstances and then moving into trade union office and parliament at a young age, he went on to hold all the major offices of state: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and, for threetumultuous years, from 1976 to 1979, Prime Minister. This book covers every aspect of his career and sets it against the background of challenge and decline in British history in the second half of the twentieth century. From decolonization in Africa, the devaluation of the pound, the crisis in industrial relations, challenges in Northern Ireland, to entry into the European Community and the winter of discon...
Callaghan
Callaghan term in office was dominated by industrial unrest, culminating in the ‘Winter of Discontent’, laying the foundations for Margaret Thatcher’s election victory in 1979
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Downing Street Diary
Describes both the decline and final collapse of 'old' Labour and how Mrs Thatcher took the opportunity to launch her crusade to dismantle trade union power and much of the British public sector.
Time and Chance
James Callaghan's career in politics is unique: no other British politician has held the four great posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister. In his autobiography, he writes openly of the issues and major crises of the time, and conveys vividly what it was like to be in the forefront of politics in a modern democracy beset by financial social and political problems. Born in poverty, Callaghan entered politics from wartime service in the Royal Navy, and office quickly followed. He was soon to hold important posts, with the responsibility of tackling major issues of his time, under Labour governments beset by crises unknown to New Labour. He describes conflicts at home and abroad; with the trade unions trying to maintain an income policy; the complex negotiations over Europe; and the financial pressures besetting the country.
Paying the Price
Roy Mason writes with passion and rare insight on the hatreds, follies and feuding which came close to wrecking the Labour Party. This book is a timely reminder that the practice of politics can sometimes involve questions of life and death.'
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A Century of Premiers
During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Good-bye, Great Britain
In this authoritative and gripping book--the first full account of the 1976 International Monetary Fund crisis--Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross peel back the surface of the most searing economic crisis of postwar Britain to reveal its historical roots and contemporary context. During the spring of 1976, the plummeting value of the British pound against the U.S. dollar triggered a traumatic economic and political crisis. International confidence in the pound collapsed; an article in the Wall Street Journal, headlined "Good-bye, Great Britain," urged investors to get out of sterling. Refused aid by the London and New York markets, the Labour Government under Prime Minister James Callaghan wa...
