Alan Bullock, Ernest Bevin. Foreign Secretary (Oxford, 1983)
Ernest Bevin. Foreign Secretary
John Saville, The Politics of Continuity: British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government 1945-46 (1993); Peter Weiler, Ernest Bevin (Manchester, 1993)
Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991), pp. 12-28; Chris Wrigley, ‘Now you see it, now you don't: Harold Wilson and Labour's foreign policy 1964-70’, in R. Coopey, S. Fielding and N. Tiratsoo (eds), The Wilson Governments 1964-1970 (1993), pp. 123-35; John Pilger, Hidden Agendas (1998), pp, 94-8, takes the analysis forward to the 1990s, examining the Labour right's continuing close relationship with American intellectual and governing elites
Martin Harrison, Trade Unions and the Labour Party since 1945 (1960), pp. 248-9
Joseph Goldstein, The Government of British Trade Unions. A Study of Apathy and the Democratic Process in the Transport and General Workers Union (1952)
Jim Phillips, ‘Inter-Union Conflict in the Docks, 1954-1955’, Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, No. 1, March 1996, pp. 107-30
‘Inter-Union Conflict in the Docks, 1954-1955’
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
107
30
Fred Halliday, ‘US Policy in the Cold War’, in Willie Thompson (ed.), The Cold War (Socialist History 11, 1997), pp. 10-29
Bullock, Foreign Secretary, pp. 105-7
Weiler, Ernest Bevin, pp. 92, 96
Dorril and Ramsay, Smear!, p. 31
Denis Healey, The Time of My Life (1989), pp. 102-6
Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour in Power, 1945-1951 (Oxford, 1984), pp. 261-2
Labour in Power, 1945-1951
261
2
Jim Phillips, The Great Alliance. Economic Recovery and the Problems of Power (1996), pp. 23-5
The Economist, 18 September 1948, Vol. 2, p. 449
Anthony Carew, ‘The TUC and International Policy’, in Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman and John McIlroy (eds), British Trade Unionism and Industrial Politics, 1945-1979 (Leicester, forthcoming in 1999)
British Trade Unionism and Industrial Politics, 1945-1979
The Times, 9 February 1948
The Economist, 23 October 1948, Vol. 2, p. 649
TUC General Council minutes, 27 October 1948, MSS. 292/20/33, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick (hereafter MRC); Eric Silver, Victor Feather (TUC 1973), p. 97
Trades Union Congress, Defend Democracy, December 1948, MSS. 292/23.1/27, MRC
Huw Richards, The Bloody Circus. The Daily Herald and the Left (1997), p. 163
Trades Union Congress, The Tactics of Disruption, January 1949, 292/777.5/1, MRC
Bernard Crick, George Orwell. A Life (Harmondsworth, 1992 reprint), pp. 488-90, 563-70
George Orwell. A Life
488
90
Geoffrey Goodman, The Awkward Warrior. Frank Cousins: His Life and Times (1979), pp. 64-7, 71, 89-90, 116
Phillips, Great Alliance, pp. 78-88
Jim Phillips, ‘Democracy and Trade Unionism on the Docks, 1945-64’, in Campbell, Fishman and McIlroy (eds), British Trade Unionism
Goldstein, British Trade Unions, pp. 60-5
‘A Job Worth Doing’, Transport and General Workers' Record, December 1954
Noel Whiteside, ‘Industrial Relations and Social Welfare, 1945-1979’, in Chris Wrigley (ed.), A History of British industrial Relations, 1939-1979 (Cheltenham, 1996), p. 109
A History of British industrial Relations, 1939-1979
109
Phillips, The Great Alliance, pp. 118-24
The Times, 18 September 1950
Charles Webster, The Health Services Since the War. Vol. I, Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service Before 1957 (1988), pp. 133-77
Ben Pimlott, Harold Wilson (1992), pp. 167-9
Janet Morgan (ed.), The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman (1981), p. 99
John Campbell, Nye Bevan. A Biography (1994), pp. 262-3, 283-9
Manchester Guardian, 10 March 1955; clipping in Aneurin Bevan, 1955 Box, BBC Press Cuttings Collection, University of Edinburgh Special Collections (hereafter BBC)
Morgan, Richard Crossman, p. 409
The evolution of these ‘rules’ forms the opening chapters of the masterful study, Lewis Minkin, The Contentious Alliance. Trade Unions and the Labour Party (Edinburgh, 1992)
Allen, Trade Union Leadership, p. 153
Manchester Guardian, 3 September 1952; Bevan, 1952 Box, BBC
The Times, 2 October 1952
‘As the Delegates Heard It’, Transport and General Workers' Record, November 1952
The Times, 8 October 1952; Bevan, 1952 Box, BBC
Philip M. Williams, Hugh Gaitskell (Oxford, 1982), pp. 209, 217, 220-1, 236; Harrison, Trade Unions, p. 267
Hugh Gaitskell
209
The Times, 6 October 1952
Richards, Bloody Circus, pp. 165-6
Transport and General Workers' Record, December 1952
The Times, 9 September 1954
Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, 30 September 1954; Bevan, 1954 Box, BBC
Transport and General Workers' Record, November 1954
Keith Jeffery and Peter Hennessy, States of Emergency (1983), pp. 154-60
Phillips, Great Alliance, pp. 126-9
The Times, 28 October 1954
News Chronicle; 11 November 1954; Bevan, 1954 Box, BBC
‘The Case for Freedom’, The Economist, 13 November 1954, Vol. 4, p. 541
Daily Telegraph, 15 November 1954; Bevan, 1954 Box, BBC
The Times, 15 November 1954
Mervyn Jones, Michael Foot (1994), pp. 197-8; Morgan, Richard Crossman, pp. 359-64
The Times, 25 November 1954
Speech to Northumbrian miners' annual picnic, Manchester Guardian, 18 July 1949
The Economist, 7 May 1955, Vol. 2, p. 457
Raphael Samuel, ‘The Lost World of British Communism’, New Left Review, No. 154, November-December 1985
‘The Lost World of British Communism’
New Left Review
Thanks to an anonymous Labour History Review referee for this perspective
Jonathan Schneer, Labour's Conscience, The Labour Left 1945-51 (1988), pp. 111-24; Don Watson, ‘Konni Zilliacus and the Cold War’, in Thompson (ed.), Cold War, pp. 65-71
Alec Cairncross, Years of Recovery. British economic policy 1945-51 (Cambridge, 1987), pp. 499-509
Years of Recovery. British economic policy 1945-51
499
509