RedRedRose
Well-Known Member
We are going all 1920's and 1930's in a quest for your various recommended readings. (And videos!)
A neglected era sandwiched between the two wars; Was it really a time of unemployment and bread queues or the advent of cinema and mass culture? Should it have heralded peace and a lot to labour? Or, was the march to another war inevitable?
Key works on- the 1926 General Strike, BUF, the CPGB, British attitudes towards the Spanish Civil War, advent of new welfare policies, appeasement and responses to the Great Depression also appreciated.
On the list:
Charles Loch Mowat - Britain Between The Wars, 1918 1940
E.H. Carr - The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
Martin Pugh - Hurrah for the Blackshirts! // We Danced All Night // The Pankhursts: The History of one Radical Family
(Can anyone recommend better books on the BUF and the Pankhursts?)
Piers Brendon - The Dark Valley; A Panorama of the 1930s (more European focused)
Tim Bouverie - Appeasing Hitler (a colleague strongly recommended this)
'The Road to World War II' 16 part series
Anything else, greatly received
A neglected era sandwiched between the two wars; Was it really a time of unemployment and bread queues or the advent of cinema and mass culture? Should it have heralded peace and a lot to labour? Or, was the march to another war inevitable?
Key works on- the 1926 General Strike, BUF, the CPGB, British attitudes towards the Spanish Civil War, advent of new welfare policies, appeasement and responses to the Great Depression also appreciated.
On the list:
Charles Loch Mowat - Britain Between The Wars, 1918 1940
E.H. Carr - The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
Martin Pugh - Hurrah for the Blackshirts! // We Danced All Night // The Pankhursts: The History of one Radical Family
(Can anyone recommend better books on the BUF and the Pankhursts?)
Piers Brendon - The Dark Valley; A Panorama of the 1930s (more European focused)
Tim Bouverie - Appeasing Hitler (a colleague strongly recommended this)
'The Road to World War II' 16 part series
Anything else, greatly received