Parties and People: England, 1914-1951(Ford Lectures 2008 2008)

Series: Ford Lectures 2008 2008

The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation of British politics in the first decades of universal suffrage. What did it mean to be a 'democratic society'? To what extent did voters make up their own minds on politics or allow elites to do it for them?