Yesterday’s Guardian carried an article (‘How the miner’s strike came close to being settled’) which will be of interest not just on the miner’s strike but the broader issue of how later revelations may change interpretations of an episode. The article refers to a new book by two journalists: Beckett, F. and Hencke, D. (2009) [...]
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Yesterday’s Guardian carried an article (‘How the miner’s strike came close to being settled’) which will be of interest not just on the miner’s strike but the broader issue of how later revelations may change interpretations of an episode. The article refers to a new book by two journalists:
Beckett, F. and Hencke, D. (2009) Marching to the fault line: the 1984 miner’s strike and the death of industrial Britain. London, Constable.
Postscript: now have this and it does need to be added to core reading for this topic.
Recent reading which may be of interest:
Dumbrell, J. (2009) ‘The UK-US special relationship: taking the 21st-century temperature’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11 (1), pp. 64-78.
Dorling, D. and Rees, P. (2003) ‘A nation still dividing: the British census and social polarisation, 1971-2001′, Environment and Planning, ser. A 35 (7), pp. 1287-1313.
Offer, A. (2008) ‘British manual workers: from producers to consumers, c.1950-2000′, Contemporary British History, 22 (4), pp. 537-71.
Callaghan, J. (2007) The Labour Party and foreign policy: a history. London: Routledge.
Finlayson, A. and Martin, J. (2008) ‘”It ain’t what you say …”: British political studies and the analysis of speech and rhetoric’, British Politics, 3 (4), pp. 445-64.
Beattie, A. (1993) ‘Biographies of 1992 and the limits of biography’, Parliamentary Affairs, 46 (3). pp. 430-4.
Gamble, A. M. (2002) ‘Political memoirs’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 4 (1), pp. 141-151.
Gamble, A. M. (1994) ‘Political memoirs’, Politics, 14 (1), pp. 35-41.
On a number of accasions I have identified Marsh and Rhodes (1992) as a key source, the clearest exponents of the ‘implementation gap’ between Thatcherite rhetoric and policy delivery. Recently, I came across Moon (1994), a useful corrective to the more sceptical interpretations:
Moon, J. (1994) ?Evaluating Thatcher: sceptical versus synthetic approaches?, Politics, 14 (2), pp. 43-9.
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