Keith Laybourn is Diamond Jubilee Professor at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and has taught history at Huddersfield for 43 years. A prolific writer of books and articles, he has published Policing in England and Wales, 1918-1939, with David Taylor, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield, UK, who also contributed to this book.
19 Ebooks by Keith Laybourn
David Taylor & Keith Laybourn: The Battle for the Roads of Britain
Policing in Britain was changed fundamentally by the rapid emergence of the automobile at the beginning of the twentieth century. This book seeks to examine how the police reacted to this challenge …
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English
€53.49
Keith Laybourn & John Shepherd: Labour and working-class lives
British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays w …
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English
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€33.99
Keith Laybourn: Going to the dogs
Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to …
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English
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€134.99
Quentin Outram & Keith Laybourn: Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland
This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the ‘people’s martyrology’, raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of Peter …
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English
€96.29
Keith Laybourn: Marxism in Britain
Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50, 000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5, …
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English
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€100.21
Keith Laybourn & Jack Reynolds: Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918
First published in 1984. This book is a detailed study of the way in which the growing Labour movement gradually ousted the Liberals in West Yorkshire between 1890 and 1924. It demonstrates the basis …
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€39.80
Keith Laybourn & Jack Reynolds: Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918
First published in 1984. This book is a detailed study of the way in which the growing Labour movement gradually ousted the Liberals in West Yorkshire between 1890 and 1924. It demonstrates the basis …
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€39.96
Keith Laybourn: Marxism in Britain
Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50, 000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5, …
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English
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€33.48
Keith Laybourn: Marxism in Britain
Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50, 000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5, …
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English
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€33.69
John A. Hargreaves & Keith Laybourn: Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons
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 …
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English
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€44.98
John A. Hargreaves & Keith Laybourn: Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons
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 …
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English
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€44.65
Keith Laybourn & John Shepherd: Labour and working-class lives
British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays …
EPUB
DRM
€26.25
Keith Laybourn: Going to the dogs
Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to …
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DRM
€106.57
Laybourn Keith Laybourn: British Political Leaders
This A-Z biographical dictionary profiles Britain’s prime ministers, foreign secretaries, home secretaries, and Chancellors of the Exchequer, from 1730 through the present-all in clear, concise …
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English
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€78.78
Keith Laybourn: Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal …
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English
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€49.85
Keith Laybourn: Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal …
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English
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€49.85
Keith Laybourn: Football Pools and the British Working Class
This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, …
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English
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€49.90
Keith Laybourn: Football Pools and the British Working Class
This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€50.01
Keith Laybourn: The Ascott Martyrs
A story of 19th century rural oppression in England when sixteen women and two babies were imprisoned in Oxfordshire, leading to a national scandal and a partial pardon by Queen Victoria.
T …
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English
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€10.99
