History 1997 And All That @LabHistory1997

Twitter account for the History, 1997 and All That: How The Labour Party Used History To Win in 1997 URSS project by @WBarberTaylor. @NotADayPodcast. history1997andallthat.co.uk Joined May 2021

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Izzy Conn @izzy_conn_

7 days ago

🎤🌹LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 8: TONY BLAIR (PART 1)🌹 With brilliant guests: @JonDavis73, @JohnRentoul, @pollytoynbee, David Blunkett, Sally Morgan, @Jacqui_Smith1, Neil Kinnock, Alan Johnson and @AnthonySeldon Spotify: shorturl.at/4BUeX Apple: shorturl.at/bBVBD

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🎤🌹LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 7: JOHN SMITH🌹🎤 Discover his life, leadership and legacy with brilliant guests: David Ward, Smith's Head of Policy @DwTenterden, Colm Murphy, @andymcsmith, Peter Dorey and Neil Kinnock Spotify: shorturl.at/e4GFP Apple: shorturl.at/3vMwo

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Izzy Conn @izzy_conn_

4 weeks ago

🌹🎤LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 6🎤🌹 Neil Kinnock - featuring Neil Kinnock himself And fantastic guests: Charles Clarke, @MartinWestlake, David Kogan, @cmmassey, and Peter Dorey Listen on Apple, or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Z7kOp…

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Izzy Conn @izzy_conn_

a month ago

🌹🎤 LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 5🎤🌹 Michael Foot With amazing insight from: @AndrewCrines, Neil Kinnock, John Foot, @tomfoot1, David Owen, Mark Wickham Jones, @ivorgaber, Peter Dorey and David Kogan open.spotify.com/episode/27UBkX…

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Izzy Conn @izzy_conn_

a month ago

🌹🎤 LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 4🎤🌹 James Callaghan With amazing insight from: Steven Fielding @PolProfSteve, Lord Tom McNally, Lord David Owen, Lewis Baston, John Edmonds and Stephen Wall @UCL_EI open.spotify.com/episode/0ZyUxw…

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Izzy Conn @izzy_conn_

2 months ago

🌹🎤 LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 3🎤🌹 Harold Wilson With amazing insight from: Rt Hon Alan Johnson, Neil Kinnock, Lord David Owen, Lewis Baston, @lottelydia, @JonDavis73, Helen Parr, Stephen Wall @UCL_EI, Edmund Fawcett and Linda McDougall @BitebackPub open.spotify.com/episode/2lNEdI…

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Izzy Conn @izzy_conn_

2 months ago

🌹🎤 LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 2🎤🌹 Hugh Gaitskell With fantastic guests: Lord David Owen, @BrianBrivati, @Kevin_Hickson, Scott Kelly @NYULondon, Alan Johnson, Stephen Wall @UCL_EI, and Edmund Fawcett open.spotify.com/episode/58GYYd…

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Izzy Conn @izzy_conn_

2 months ago

🌹LEADING LABOUR EPISODE 1 🎤🌹 Clement Attlee With amazing guests: Neil Kinnock, John Bew, @RichardToye, @lottelydia, @PDimoldenberg, @cmmassey, @AndrewSeaton, Stephen Wall @UCL_EI and Edmund Fawcett open.spotify.com/episode/10wB0F…

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Will Barber-Taylor @WBarberTaylor

5 months ago

You can now listen to the latest episode of the @DebatedPodcast - in this episode I speak to Meadhbh Park about her new book Blackpilled: Masculinity, Media and Incels. Listen here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bla… @BitebackPub

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Tides of History @labour_history

5 months ago

#OTD 1999. Introduction of the Minimum Wage. The change gives an overnight pay rise to over two million people - more than half of them in the service sector Thread on the battle to introduce it 👇🏼

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Not A Day For Soundbites Podcast @NotADayPodcast

6 months ago

You can now listen to every episode of the Not A Day for Soundbites podcast on Itunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not… Includes episodes on Blair, Brown and Wilson as well as an interview with Neil Kinnock on his approach to giving speeches.

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Not A Day For Soundbites Podcast @NotADayPodcast

11 months ago

Sixty years ago this week Harold Wilson became Prime Minister. His time in Downing Street would be defined by his "White Heat of Technology speech". This famous speech was covered on this episode of the podcast which you can listen to here: open.spotify.com/episode/4TELJK…

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Tides of History @labour_history

11 months ago

#OTD 1994. Tony Blair gives first conference speech as leader in Blackpool on New Labour, New Britain. “Our system of government has become out-dated, our economy has been weakened, our people have been under-educated, our welfare state and public services have been run down”.

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Keir Hardie Society @KeirHardieSoc

a year ago

At a public meeting in Glasgow OTD in 1888 the Scottish Labour Party was founded, with Keir Hardie becoming the party's first secretary. The party's president was Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, the first socialist MP.

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Keir Hardie Society @KeirHardieSoc

a year ago

OTD in 1892 Keir Hardie took his seat as the MP for West Ham South. Hardie famously refused to wear the "parliamentary uniform" of black frock coat, black silk top hat and starched wing collar that other MPs wore. keirhardiesociety.org/uploads/3/9/5/…

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History 1997 And All That @LabHistory1997

a year ago

Fancy something to read this weekend? Why not check out this long read on the relationship between the Labour Party and history in the run up to the 1997 election.

History 1997 And All That @LabHistory1997

a year ago

Fancy something to read this weekend? Why not check out this long read on the relationship between the Labour Party and history in the run up to the 1997 election.

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History 1997 And All That @LabHistory1997

a year ago

79 years ago today Labour was elected with a 145 seat majority under the leadership of Clement Attlee. To celebrate here are some excerpts from my original copy of the 1945 manifesto.