Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth‐century British Politics

Keith Laybourn, Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield, UK, is a prolific and respected writer on modern UK history and politics. Among his more recent monograph offerings are The Rise of Socialism in Britain (Laybourn, 1997), Modern Britain 1906‐1990: A Reader (Laybourn, 1999), A Century of Labour: A History of the Labour Party 1900‐2000 (Laybourn, 2001a) and, in the reference field, British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary (Laybourn, 2001b). The latter title, of which Laybourn was both editor and contributor of at least half the text, provided biographical sketches for 198 UK political leaders 1730 to date, about...