Description: By providing a comprehensive and multi-layered picture of the troubled relationship between working-class radicals and organised Liberalism in England between 1868 and 1888, Labour and the Caucus offers a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party.
Brief description: Dr James Owen is a Research Fellow on the History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1832-1945 project.
Review Quotes:
'[By consulting widely and deeply unpublished manuscripts] Owen gives properly wait to [engaging] analysis of the connections between the linguistic, and the political and cultural environments.'
William C. Lubenow, Journal of Liberal History