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Bloomsbury presents Age of Hope by Richard Toye read by Charles Armstrong

The clue to our future lies in our past and Toye has winkled it out with elegant and devastating precision Chris Bryant MP for Rhondda

WAS THE ATTLEE GOVERNMENT OF 1945 REALLY THE GOLDEN PERIOD OF LABOUR POWER

2024 marks the centenary of the first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald What legacy of the past have they left behind How far has each Labour administration influenced succeeding administrations Above all was the Attlee government of 1945 really the golden period of Labour power

Professor Richard Toye explores Labours exercise of power as a continuum setting Attlees administration in longterm historical context between the first Labour Government of 1924 and the current party under Keir Starmer Within this context he shows why the Attlee administration matters so much and how successive Labour governments have fashioned it in their own image

Into this story are woven the foundation of the Labour Party in 1900 the First World War the General Strike of 1926 the Spanish Civil War and the coalition wartime government under Churchill Also discussed are the great names of Labour history Ramsay MacDonald Clement Attlee himself Ernest Bevin Aneurin Bevan Hugh Gaitskell Harold Wilson and Ellen Wilkinson

Covering Labours history all the way up to the present including Wilson and Blairs attempts to wrap themselves in Attlees mantle and Corbyns version of Attlee focused on the NHS and the welfare state Age of Hope is an incisive informative look at a political party that has been fundamental in shaping modern Britain and will be equally instrumental in its future