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Three book covers: "Labour, British Radicalism and the First World War"; "The Second Labour Government"; and "Labour and the Left in the 1980s"

Labour History Research Unit

"Anglia Ruskin’s Labour History Research Unit makes a fundamental contribution to
the study of both contemporary and historic politics in Britain. At a time of complex and intense political change, we more than ever need the kind of historic understanding which the Unit provides."

Former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke

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