Labour history Articles

On 1 March 2014, the Labour party will hold a special conference on proposed internal reforms. This is an ideal time to reflect on previous organisational changes, and the one that perhaps made the greatest difference to British history was that undertaken by Arthur...

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the close of the Edwardian era, when the Great War broke out in 1914; the poet Philip Larkin wistfully remarked in his famous poem, ‘MCMXIV’: ‘Never such innocence/Never before or since’. Perhaps the politics of the period...

Seventy years ago, in December 1943, George Orwell first penned his ‘As I Please’ column for Tribune. He had been writing articles for some months, but now he had a regular slot. At that time, the magazine’s editor was Aneurin Bevan, though, busy with his...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of America’s 35th president. On 22 November 1963, John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, after only 34 months in office. His is the ‘Unfinished Life,’ in the words of his biographer Robert Dallek....