Were the 1930s in Britain a decade of growing prosperity, unprecedented levels of ownership and sane, competent government? Or was it a time of grinding poverty, long-term unemployment and political timidity? In this new book Andrew Thorpe cuts through the welter of dispute and mythology to provide fresh analysis of politics, economics and society in this most controversial of decades.

The Acadian Reminiscences is a
word painting of the life of the Acadians in the Teche Country in the long ago.

The plain, simple frugal life of these people, their devotion to principle,
their unbound faith in the goodness of God, their love for each other during
all their misfortunes and perilous wanderings, appeal to the heart.
The simple pathos of the grandmother's story comes to us with such
consummate art, that the eye unwittingly grows moist, as the reader follows the
journeyings of this little band, self-exiled and noble in their poverty, from

Political parties formed the cornerstone of the liberal democracy for which Britain claimed it was fighting in the Second World War. However, that conflict represented the most sustained challenge to the British party system during the twentieth century. War forced the suspension of normal electoral politics, and exerted considerable extra demands on the time and loyalties of party activists and organizers. This all posed a serious challenge to the Conservative, Labor and Liberal parties.

After thirteen years in power, Labour suddenly returned to being the party of opposition in 2010. This new edition of A History of the British Labour Party brings us up-to-date, examining Gordon Brown's period in office and the Labour Party under the leadership of Ed Miliband. Andrew Thorpe's study has been the leading single-volume text on the Labour Party since its first edition in 1997 and has now been thoroughly revised throughout to include new approaches.

This new edition:
- covers the entirety of the party's history, from 1900 to 2014
- examines the reasons for the...