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- ISBN 9781913368814
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Haus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The new Cabinet in January 1924 consisted, as governments had for generations, of twenty white, middle-aged men. But that is where the similarities with previous governments ended, for the election of Britain's first Labour administration witnessed a radical departure from government by the ruling class. Replacing Stanley Baldwin's Conservatives were Ramsay MacDonald's Labour, the majority of whom had left school by the age of fifteen. Five of them had started work by the time they were twelve years old. Three were working down the mines before they entered their teens. Two were illegitimate, one was a foundling, three were of Irish immigrant descent. For the first time in Britain's history the Cabinet could truly be said to represent all of Britain's social classes.This unheralded revolution in representation is the subject of Peter Clark's fascinating new book, The Men of 1924. Who were these men? Clark's vivid portrayal is full of evocative portraits of a new breed of politician, the forerunners of all those who, later in the last century and in this one, overcame a system from which they had been excluded for too long.
PETER CLARK is a writer and translator, has degrees from Keele and Leicester universities, and is a Research Associate
at the SOAS, University of London. He worked in the overseas service of the British Council for over thirty years, has translated novels, plays and history from Arabic and written books on Istanbul and Marmaduke Pickthall. He is the author of Dickens's London and Churchill's Britain.
