Mastering Modern British History

Norman Lowe has had many years experience of teaching history at all levels in school and colleges. He is the author of Mastering Modern World History and Mastering Twentieth-Century Russian History.

• IntroductionBritain Under the Tories 1815-30Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832Whig Reforms and Failures 1833-41ChartismSir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws 1830-46Domestic Affairs 1846-67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867Lord Palmerston and Foreign Affairs 1830-65The Crimean War 1854-56Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857Standards of Living and Social Reform: Factories, Mines, Public Health and EducationGladstone's First Ministry 1868-74Disraeli and the Conservatives in Power 1874-80Victorian Prosperity and DepressionGladstone and Salisbury 1880-95Ten Years of Conservative Rule 1895-1905The Growth of the Trade Unions and the Labour Party to 1914The State and the People from the 1890s to 1939The Liberals in Power 1905-14Britain, the First World War and its AftermathPolitics in Confusion 1918-24Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General StrikePolitical and Economic Crises, 1929-39: The Second Labour Government (1929-31), the World Economic Crisis and the National GovernmentsBritain and the Problems of Empire Between the WarsAppeasement and the Outbreak of the Second World War: Foreign Affairs 1931-39Britain and the Second World War 1939-45Labour in Power: the Attlee Governments 1945-51The Rise and Fall of Consensus 1951-79The State of the People: Social and Cultural Change Since 1945Britain and its Parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and WalesBritain and Her Place in the World After 1945Britain and the End of the EmpireThatcherism and the New Right 1979-97Labour in Opposition and in Power, 1979-2010The Conservatives in Opposition (1997-2010) and in Coalition (2010-2015).