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Labour's War: The Labour Party and the Second World War

Professor Stephen Brooke's new book examines sexual reforms and labour politics in Britain

In 1945, the British Labour Party won by a landslide and introduced a public health system, public ownership of industry and educational reform. It had been generally assumed that whichever political party won in postwar Britain would do the same thing.   Not so, argued York history Professor Stephen Brooke in his 1992 book, Labour’s War: The Labour […]