Book recommendations & academic works: UK general elections

[edgbaston]

This thread may flop, it may not. But this forum seems like the best place to ask

[nodealbrexiteer]

Aug 31, 2020 10:35:18 GMT edgbaston said:

This thread may flop, it may not. But this forum seems like the best place to ask

I have been collecting the:
Nuffield studies(The British General Election  of..)
Britain Votes
Political Communications(started from 1979)
Britain at the Polls(from 1974 though none for 1987 and 2015)
Explaining Labour's Landslide and it's sequels

[Sibboleth]

Duncan Tanner, Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-1918

[The Bishop]

I expect the OP is already aware of them, but the Nuffield studies are a terrific starting point.

[ColinJ]

I offer the following suggestions for General Elections before 1945:

T. Lloyd, The General Election of 1880, Oxford University Press, 1968.
A.K. Russell, Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906, David and Charles, 1973.
N. Blewitt, The Peers, The Parties and the People: The General Elections of 1910, University of Toronto Press, 1972.
A. Thorpe, The British General Election of 1931, Clarendon Press, 1991.
T. Stannage, Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935, Croom Helm, 1980.

For by-elections:

T.G. Otte and P. Readman (eds.), By-Elections in British Politics, 1832-1914, Boydell Press, 2013.
C. Cook and J. Ramsden, By-Elections in British Politics, Macmillan, 1973.

But my number one pick for a good read is:

C. Cook, The Age of Alignment: Electoral Politics in Britain 1922-1929, Macmillan, 1975.

[matureleft]

For those looking for a longer perspective, Hanham's Elections and Party Management: Politics in the time of Disraeli and Gladstone, is excellent.

[nodealbrexiteer]

www.amazon.co.uk/Britain-Decides-General-Election-British/dp/1403946566/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=andrew+geddes+2010+election&qid=1598872540&s=books&sr=1-2


www.amazon.co.uk/LabourS-Second-Landslide-Election-Political/dp/0719062667

www.amazon.co.uk/LabourS-Landslide-1997-General-Election/dp/0719051584

Think the above 3 are part of a series too