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Ross McKibbin

Ross McKibbin, a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, is the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.

Selected bibliography

  • Married Love by Marie Stopes, edited by Ross McKibbin (2004)
  • Consensus or Coercion? The State, the People and Social Cohesion in Post-War Britain foreword by Ross McKibbin (2001)
  • Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 (1998)
  • Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain, 1880-1950 (1990)
  • The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-24 (1984)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Not Pleasing the Tidy-Minded · 24 April 2008

subscriber-only content Who’s on the Ropes Now? · 1 November 2007

Pure New Labour · 4 October 2007

Defeatism, Defeatism, Defeatism · 22 March 2007

Sleazy, Humiliated, Despised · 7 September 2006

The Reshuffle and After · 25 May 2006

The Destruction of the Public Sphere · 5 January 2006

subscriber-only content What Blair Threw Away · 19 May 2005

subscriber-only content Perhaps a Merlot · 3 March 2005

  • Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present and Future by David Miers

subscriber-only content How to dislodge a leader who doesn’t want to go · 8 July 2004

subscriber-only content Why did it end so badly? · 18 March 2004

  • Margaret Thatcher, Vol. II: The Iron Lady by John Campbell

How to put the politics back into Labour · 7 August 2003

Why did he risk it? · 3 April 2003

Nothing More Divisive · 28 November 2002

subscriber-only content Non-Party Man · 19 September 2002

  • The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps by Peter Clarke

subscriber-only content The Luck of the Tories · 7 March 2002

  • Kinnock: The Biography by Martin Westlake

The Tax-and-Spend Vote · 5 July 2001

subscriber-only content ‘They Mean us no Harm’ · 8 February 2001

  • John Maynard Keynes: Vol. III: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 by Robert Skidelsky

Make enemies and influence people · 20 July 2000

Mondeo Man in the Driving Seat · 30 September 1999

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive The Iceman Cometh · 6 January 2000

  • Addicted by Tony Adams and Ian Ridley

 not available in archive Third Way, Old Hat · 3 September 1998

 not available in archive Why One-Nation Tories can no longer make an impression on the political establishment · 16 April 1998

  • Whatever Happened to the Tories: The Conservatives since 1945 by Ian Gilmour and Mark Garnett

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