Sarah Campbell lectures in British and Irish history at Newcastle UniversitySarah Campbell lectures in British and Irish history at Newcastle University

Meticulous and deeply researched, it charts the growth of the party from its founding in 1970 to the late 70s when the future Lord Bell's Hill left the party and the politics of the North. Dr.Campbell is a superb historian of this period and her interviews and source work are impeccable. -- Steve Pound. The Tribune

• 1. The plough and the tricolour: Gerry Fitt and the evolution of nationalist politics in Northern Ireland, 1959–692. ‘A varied and diverse bunch’ – the birth of the SDLP3. ‘Impaled on a hook’: internment and civil disobedience4. Bombs and barricades: the road to Sunningdale5. The politics of compromise: the Sunningdale Agreement (September – December 1973)6. ‘Trundling’ Unionists into a united Ireland? The power-sharing executive in operation7. Pidgin politics8. ‘The British must govern or go…’: The greening of the SDLPConclusion: in a minority of one?BibliographyIndex

Sarah Campbell lectures in British and Irish history at Newcastle UniversitySarah Campbell lectures in British and Irish history at Newcastle University

Meticulous and deeply researched, it charts the growth of the party from its founding in 1970 to the late 70s when the future Lord Bell's Hill left the party and the politics of the North. Dr.Campbell is a superb historian of this period and her interviews and source work are impeccable. -- Steve Pound. The Tribune

• 1. The plough and the tricolour: Gerry Fitt and the evolution of nationalist politics in Northern Ireland, 1959–692. ‘A varied and diverse bunch’ – the birth of the SDLP3. ‘Impaled on a hook’: internment and civil disobedience4. Bombs and barricades: the road to Sunningdale5. The politics of compromise: the Sunningdale Agreement (September – December 1973)6. ‘Trundling’ Unionists into a united Ireland? The power-sharing executive in operation7. Pidgin politics8. ‘The British must govern or go…’: The greening of the SDLPConclusion: in a minority of one?BibliographyIndex