 | Consensus and Disunity: The Lloyd George Coalition Government 1918-1922: Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918-22 by Kenneth O. Morgan
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £15.00 A good survery of the wartime coalition in the postwar era, with the magic of the 'Welsh wizard' increasingly ineffective.
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 | Bonar Law by R.J.Q. Adams
Buy used from: £0.09 The quiet partner of the coalition and Lloyd George's successor as Prime Minister.
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 | The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Sufferage by McCrillis
Buy used from: £19.47 A first-rate study of how the Unionist/Conservative party responded to the introduction of universal suffrage after 1918, a key to its political survival.
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 | Ramsay Macdonald: A Biography by David Marquand
Great biography of the first Labour Prime Minister and the man who more than any other made the party a viable political force.
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 | MacDonald's Party: Labour Identities and Crisis 1922-1931 by David Howell
Buy new: £91.20 / Used from: £47.96 A great history of the Labour Party when it supplanted the Liberals as the dominant party of the left.
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 | Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values (British Lives) by Philip Williamson
Buy new: £49.74 / Used from: £50.92 Good study of the political leadership of the dominant Conservative politician of the era.
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| Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922-31 (Modern revivals in history) by John Campbell
Buy used from: £90.22 Campbell makes a strong case for Lloyd George's political influence throughout the 1920s.
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 | National Crisis and National Government: British Politics, the Economy and Empire, 19261932: British Politics, the Economy and Empire, 1926-1932 by Philip Williamson
Buy new: £85.50 / Used from: £50.00 A fascinating approach to examining the economic challenges facing the country and their impact on politics.
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| Politicians and the Slump: Labour Government of 1929-31 (Pelican) by Robert Skidelsky
Buy used from: £3.45 Dated though still useful; Skidelsky is good at showing how the second Labour government failed to rise to the challenge of the Depression.
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| Baldwin and the Conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929-31 by Stuart Ball
Buy used from: £16.49 How the Conservatives responded to the Depression while out of power.
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| The British General Election of 1931 by Andrew Thorpe
Buy used from: £45.00 Great study of the election that ushered in the National Government that would dominate politics throughout the decade.
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 | The National Government, 1931-40 (British Studies) by Nick Smart
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £12.77 This provides a good introductory survey of the governments of the decade.
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 | George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour by Dr John Shepherd
Buy new: £53.55 / Used from: £34.53 MacDonald's successor as party leader, a caretaker in a dark period for Labour.
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 | Clem Attlee by Francis Beckett
Buy used from: £6.24 The latest biography of the man who rebuilt the Labour Party, paving the way for its postwar triumph.
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 | Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-40 by John Swift
Buy new: £64.00 / Used from: £58.00 Solid study of how Attlee made his party competitive once more.
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| Labour and the Left in the 1930's by Ben Pimlott
Buy used from: £14.00 An outstanding study of the ideologies fermenting in the Labour party during the decade.
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 | Neville Chamberlain: 1869-1929 v. 1 by David Dilks
Buy new: £45.60 / Used from: £19.72 A great biography of the man who would become the key figure of the National Government, showing how he rose to power.
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 | Neville Chamberlain (Reputations) by David Dutton
Buy new: £24.99 / Used from: £17.95 Not a biography, but a study of the post-career reputation of this enormously controversial figure in British history.
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 | Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War (Making of the Twentieth Century) by R.A.C. Parker
Buy new: £18.33 / Used from: £13.69 The best explanation of how the government confronted the crisis that resulted in the Second World War.
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