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John A. (Hrsg.) Hargreaves

Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons

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J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of the House of Commons 1921-28 presiding over the debates at the time of the General Strike of 1926. In 1929-31 he toured India as chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Labour and was chairman of the BBC between 1930 and 1935. He was thus a vitally important political figure who was active at the rise of Labour and the decline of Liberalism, invo… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Laybourn, Keith (Hrsg.) / Toye, Richard (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-351-86613-2
  • EAN: 9781351866132
  • Produktnummer: 24979694
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'520 KB
  • Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße und 2 farbige Abbildungen, 13 schwarz-weiße und 2 farbige Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

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John A. Hargreaves is an Associate of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Historical Association and a Fellow of the Society of Anitiquaries. He has written extensively and co-edited Slavery in Yorkshire: Richard Oastler and the campaign against child labour in the Industrial Revolution (2012).Keith Laybourn is the Diamond Jubilee Professor of the University of Huddersfield, a prolific writer on British labour history, and both President and Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History. He co-authored Britain's First Labour Government (2006, 2013) and has recently published The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law c. 1890-1970 (2015).Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. He is widely published and his most recent book (co-written with Martin Thomas) is Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 (2017).

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