This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of... Læs mere
Drawing on a range of contemporary evidence, Stephen Constantine studies the nature and causes of unemployment in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes the failure of successive inter-war governments to make a constructive response.
Whereas one particular image of the interwar years portrays this period to contain depression, decay and deprivation, more recent works have shown it to be a time of more optimistic social conditions. This book discusses this much debated argument.
Examines Lloyd George's powerful personal ambitions and his response to the challenges posed to Liberal society by radical conservatism and socialism. Drawing on the wealth of material available this is a concise, interpretative study.