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Name
  
Henry Pelling


Died
  
1997

Henry Pelling wwwhistoryacukmakinghistoryhistoriansimages

Books
  
History of British Trade Uni, A short history of the Labo, Modern Britain - 1885‑1955, Churchill's peacetime ministry, Labour governments - 1945‑51

Henry Mathison Pelling (1920–1997), was a British historian best known for his works on the history of the British Labour Party, including:

  • The Origins of the Labour Party (1954) and
  • A Short History of the Labour Party (1993).

    • He was also a pioneer of the serious study of twentieth-century electoral and party politics, and wrote such other works as:

  • Modern Britain 1885-1955
  • Social Geography of British Elections: 1885-1910
  • Winston Churchill
  • Britain and the Marshall Plan
  • A History of British Trade Unionism, London 1992
  • America and the British left: from Bright to Bevan
  • The British Communist Party: a historical profile
  • The 1945 General Election Reconsidered
  • Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain
  • Britain and the Second World War

    • His collection of British left-wing political pamphlets is held at Senate House Library.

    His papers are lodged with St John's College Cambridge.

    References

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