Narratives of Delusion in the Political Practice of the Labour Left 1931–1945
- Submitting institution
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Edge Hill University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 20354239
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- ISBN
- 978-1-5275-0552-0
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- There are many accounts of Labour’s left-wing. These tend to accept the claims made by the individuals being examined. This work argues that after the crisis of 1931 Labour’s Left was a primarily a middle class, metropolitan phenomena. This social location permitted only limited contact with the Left’s supposed constituency, the working class. In the extreme circumstances of the 30s and 40s the Left developed a form of politics based on speculative narratives, that often had limited connection to actual political developments, but which both justified the Left’s existence, and enabled its leaders to maintain their relatively privileged lifestyles.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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