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The Political Lives of Postwar British Mps: An Oral History of Parliament

by Emma Peplow
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350201699
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 31.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 400 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, and History & Theory

Parliament is Britain's most important political institution, yet its workings remain obscure to academics and the wider public alike. MPs are often seen as 'out of touch' or 'all the same' and their individual motivations, achievements and regrets remain in the background of party politics. In this book, Emma Peplow and Priscila Pivatto draw on the History of Parliament Trust's collection of oral history interviews with postwar British MPs to highlight their diverse political experiences in Parliament.

Featuring extracts from a collection of interviews with over 160 former MPs who sat from the 1950s until the 2000s, The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs gives a voice to those MPs' stories. It explores why they became interested in politics, how they found their seat and fought election campaigns, what it felt like to speak in the chamber and how their class or gender dictated their experiences at Westminster. In the process, readers will be given rare glimpse into the spaces inhabited by MPs, the political rivalries and friendships and the rising and falling of their careers.

With accounts from MPs of all political stripes, from the well-known like David Owen and Ann Taylor to those who sat for just a few years such as Denis Coe; from old political families like Douglas Hurd to those like Maria Fyfe who felt themselves outsiders, this book provides deep insight into the political lives of MPs in our age.

Peplow, Emma: - Emma Peplow is Head of Development of the History of Parliament Trust, UK. After completing a PhD in History at the London School of Economics, UK, she has worked in oral history and public engagement roles. Dr Peplow has undertaken hundreds of oral history interviews, overseen several projects, and published or presented findings at academic conferences and in the media.

Pivatto, Priscila: - Priscila Pivatto is Research Associate at the History of Parliament Trust, UK. She has a PhD in Public Law from the University of San Paolo, Brazil. Dr Pivatto has published and presented papers about the history of political thought, parliamentary proceedings and oral history.

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