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

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"Anglia Ruskin’s Labour History Research Unit makes a fundamental contribution to
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Former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke

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