All Outputs (5)

Tories and hunters : Swinton College and the landscape of modern conservatism (2013)
Journal Article
Black, L. (2014). Tories and hunters : Swinton College and the landscape of modern conservatism. History Workshop Journal, 77(1), 187-214. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbt014

For twenty-eight years from 1948 Swinton College was the Conservative Party’s activist training base in North Yorkshire. It was founded by Butler, hosted Heath’s policy ‘away days’ in the late 1960s, promoted the rise of neoliberal ideas and, notwith... Read More about Tories and hunters : Swinton College and the landscape of modern conservatism.

'Making Britain a gayer and more cultivated country': Wilson, Lee and the creative industries in the 1960s (2006)
Journal Article
Black, L. (2006). 'Making Britain a gayer and more cultivated country': Wilson, Lee and the creative industries in the 1960s. Contemporary British History, 20(3), 323-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619460500407012

Interrogating the Wilson administration's cultural agenda seems key given the seismic shifts assumed to characterise British society and particularly cultural life in the 1960s. Yet historians have given this little attention. Exploring Jennie Lee's... Read More about 'Making Britain a gayer and more cultivated country': Wilson, Lee and the creative industries in the 1960s.

The impression of affluence: political culture in the 1950s and 1960s (2004)
Book Chapter
Black, L. (2004). The impression of affluence: political culture in the 1950s and 1960s. In L. Black, & H. Pemberton (Eds.), An affluent society ? Britain's post-war 'golden age' revisited (85-106). Ashgate Publishing

Which?craft in post-war Britain : the Consumers’ Association and the politics of affluence (2004)
Journal Article
Black, L. (2004). Which?craft in post-war Britain : the Consumers’ Association and the politics of affluence. Albion (Boone), 36(1), 53-82. https://doi.org/10.2307/4054436

The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64: Old Labour, New Britain? (2002)
Book
Black, L. (2002). The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64: Old Labour, New Britain?. Palgrave Macmillan

Exploring relationships between politics, the people and social change, this book assesses the fortunes mainly of Labour, but also of the Communist Party and the New Left in postwar Britain. Using concepts like political culture, it looks at the left... Read More about The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64: Old Labour, New Britain?.