County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919–1938: A Comparative Analysis: Volume 2: Bradford - Carlisle - Hardcover

Davies, Sam; Morley, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840142472 ISBN 13: 9781840142471

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

These volumes provide an essential comprehensive work of reference for the annual municipal elections that took place each November in the 83 County Boroughs of England and Wales between 1919 and 1938. They also provide an extensive and detailed analysis of municipal politics in the same period, both in terms of the individual boroughs and of aggregate patterns of political behaviour. Being annual, these local election results give the clearest and most authoritative record of how political opinion changed between general elections, especially useful for research into the longer gaps such as 1924-29 and 1935-45, or crisis periods such as 1929-31. They also illuminate the impact of fringe parties such as the Communist Party and the British Union of Fascists, and also such questions as the role of women in politics, the significance of religious and ethnic differentiation and the connection between occupational and class divisions and party allegiance. Analysis at the ward level is particularly useful for socio-spatial studies. A major work of reference, County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919-1938 is indispensable for university libraries and local and national record offices. Each volume has approximately 700 pages.

About this title

About the Author:

Sam Davies and Bob Morley, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Review:

'... a wealth of statistical information... fascinating... admirably wide-ranging studies... Anyone who enjoyed Volume 1 of this series will enjoy Volume 2...They will find it of great interest...' Local Government Studies 'This work ... marks a considerable step forward in the study of local politics in the inter-war period... we should be left in no doubt of the scale of the debt owed to Davies and Morley in compiling these results... an extremely useful tool, enabling a more detailed insight into the pace and diversity of political change than has been achieved before.' Urban History '... historians now have the benefit of the rich empirical base supplied by Sam Davies and Bob Morley's comparative analyses of county borough elections ...' The Historical Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1840142472
• ISBN 13: 9781840142471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 736