Keith Laybourn

Research output

Research output per year 1975 2015 2017 2018 2022

• 13 Book/Film/Dance Article review
• 10 Book
• 10 Chapter
• 8 Article
• 4 More
  • 3 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Review article

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2022

  The Football Pools and the British Working Class: A Political, Social and Cultural History

  Laybourn, K., 22 Jul 2022, London: Routledge. 250 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • British Working Class 100%
  • Social History 94%
  • Football 71%
  • Political History 62%
  • Cultural History 57%
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2020

  The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939: The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party

  Laybourn, K., 3 Jun 2020, 1 ed. Abingdon & New York: Routledge. 246 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern British History)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Socialist Party 100%
  • Labour Party 95%
  • Political History 75%
  • Cultural History 70%
  • World War I 19%
• 2019

  Book Review: The Roadhouse Comes to Britain: Drinking, Driving and Dancing, 1925-1955, by David W. Gutzke and Michael John Law

  Laybourn, K., 1 Apr 2019, In: English Historical Review. 134, 567, p. 506-508 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review

  • Interwar Years 100%
  • Drinking 89%
  • Dancing 88%
  • English People 62%

• Going to the dogs: A history of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926–2017

  Laybourn, K., 14 Jan 2019, 1 ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 240 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Working Class 100%
  • Gambling 87%
  • History 74%
  • Heyday 42%
  • Leisure 35%
• 2018

  'A Divine Discontent with Wrong': The People's Martyrology

  Outram, Q. & Laybourn, K., 31 Jan 2018, Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland: From Peterloo to the Present. Outram, Q. & Laybourn, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, p. 1-29 29 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • civil religion 100%
  • Martyrology 92%
  • reformation 75%
  • Martyr 64%
  • nineteenth century 58%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Book review: Laura Beers, The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016)

  Laybourn, K., 1 May 2018, In: Labour/Le Travail. 81, Spring 2018, p. 302-304 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review

• Lewis H. Mates, The Great Labour Unrest: Rank and File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield

  Laybourn, K., 2018, Labour/Le Travail, 82, p. 288-290 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

  • World War I 100%
  • Political Change 98%
  • Mate 92%
  • Unrest 89%
  • File 76%

• Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918

  Laybourn, K. & Reynolds, J., 23 Nov 2018, 1 ed. London: Routledge. 236 p. (Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Liberalism 100%
  • Labor 51%
  • Labor Movement 32%
  • Liberal Party 32%
  • Nonconformity 31%

• Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland: From Peterloo to the Present

  Outram, Q. (ed.) & Laybourn, K. (ed.), 2018, 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 346 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Easter Rising 100%
  • Martyrdom 73%
  • Ireland 61%
  • Martyrology 49%
  • Household Name 48%

• 'The People's Flag is Deepest Red, It Shrouded Oft Our Martyred Dead': Martyrdom and the People's History

  Outram, Q. & Laybourn, K., 2018, Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland : From Peterloo to the Present. Outram, Q. & Laybourn, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 287-297 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Martyrdom 100%
  • History 61%
  • Drama 30%
  • General History 28%
  • Wales 22%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• The Rising Sun of Socialism: The emergence of the Labour Movement in the textile belt of the West Riding of Yorkshire, c.1890-1914

  Laybourn, K., 18 May 2018, The Labour Party in Historical Perspective. Morgan, D. (ed.). 1st ed. London: Socialist History Society, p. 26-41 16 p. (Socialist History Society Occasional Publication; no. 42).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • West Riding 100%
  • Labor Movement 89%
  • Yorkshire 76%
  • Belt 72%
  • Sun 70%
• 2017

  Book review: Paul Flewers and John McIlroy (eds), 1956: John Saville, E.P. Thompson & The Reasoner, (London, Merlin Press, 2016)

  Laybourn, K., 3 Jul 2017, In: Labor History. 58 , 4, p. 579-581 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review

  Open Access

• Book review: Peter Ackers and Alastair J. Reid (eds), Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

  Laybourn, K., 2017, In: Labour History Review. 82, 2, p. 173-176 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review

  Open Access

• Book review: The Battle of Grangemouth: A Workers' Story by Mark Lyon

  Laybourn, K., 24 May 2017, In: Cerles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone..

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review

  Open Access

• Introduction

  Hargreaves, J. A., Laybourn, K. & Toye, R., 26 Oct 2017, Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons. Hargreaves, J. A., Laybourn, K. & Toye, R. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • House of Commons 100%
  • Halifax 54%
  • Government Regulation 54%
  • Social Reformers 49%
  • Self-regulation 47%

• J.H. Whitley and Halifax Politics between 1890 and 1906: the Politics of Social Reform

  Laybourn, K., 26 Oct 2017, Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons. Hargreaves, J. A., Laybourn, K. & Toye, R. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 67-85 19 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern British History).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Halifax 100%
  • Social Reform 79%
  • New Liberalism 53%
  • Labour Party 42%
  • Social Work 23%

• Labour and working-class lives: Essays to celebrate the life and work of Chris Wrigley

  Laybourn, K. & Shepherd, J., Apr 2017, Manchester University Press. 288 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Labor Movement 100%
  • Working Class 67%
  • Punk Rock 54%
  • Labor 52%
  • Unionism 46%

• The disaffiliation crisis of 1932: the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the opinion of ILP members

  Laybourn, K., 30 May 2017, Labour and Working-Class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley. Laybourn, K. & Shepherd, J. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 110-132 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Labour Party 100%
  • Interwar Years 17%
  • Revolution 9%
  • Capitalism 7%
  • Turning Point 7%
• 2016

  Book Review: Bew, John, 'Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee', (London: Riverrun, 2016)

  Laybourn, K., Nov 2016, History Today, 66, 11.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

  Open Access

• Book Review: 'The Match Girl and the Heiress' by Seth Koven

  Laybourn, K., 2016, In: Labour History Review. 81, 1, p. 91-92 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review

• The History of the Labour Party: Keith Laybourn traces the emergence of the Labour Party, its highs and lows and wonders if its forward March is now halted

  Laybourn, K., 1 Jan 2016, In: History Today. 66, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
• 2015

  A Movement Divided: The Labour movement and the Great War with particular reference to a 'divided' Bradford and a 'united' Huddersfield

  Laybourn, K., 15 Dec 2015, 'Stop the First World War’: Movements Opposed to the First World War in Britain, France and Germany. Morgan, D. (ed.). Socialist History Society, p. 4-27 24 p. (SHS Occasional Publications; vol. 37).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

• Book Review: 'The English Isles - Cultural Transmission and Political Conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500' edited by Seán Duffy and Susan Foran

  Laybourn, K., Jun 2015, In: Welsh History Review. 27, 3, p. 574 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review

• Book Review: 'The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 - New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike' edited by Robert Forrant and Jurg Siegenhaler

  Laybourn, K., 2015, In: Labour History Review. 80, 2, p. 203-206 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review

• Book Review: 'Unemployment and the State in Britain - The Means Test and Protest in 1930s South Wales and North-East England' by Stephanie Ward

  Laybourn, K., Jun 2015, In: Welsh History Review. 27, 3, p. 592-594 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review

• Book Review: 'Voices from Labour's Past - Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives' by David Clark

  Laybourn, K., 2015, In: Labour History Review. 80, 3, p. 301-302 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review

• The battle for the roads of Britain: Police, motorists and the law, c.1890s to 1970s

  Laybourn, K. & Taylor, D., 15 Jul 2015, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 238 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Holocaust 100%
  • pedestrian 65%
  • Police 60%
  • motor vehicle 55%
  • Automobile 51%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• The New Philanthropy of the Edwardian Age: The Guild of Help and the Halifax Citizens’ Guild, 1905-1918

  Laybourn, K., 2015, In: The Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society. 23, p. 73-94 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• The oratory of Aneurin Bevan

  Crines, A. & Laybourn, K., 1 Feb 2015, Labour orators from Bevan to Miliband. Crines, A. & Hayton, R. (eds.). Manchester University Press, p. 14-30 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2014

  Book Review: 'Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister' by Michael Jago

  Laybourn, K., Nov 2014, History Today, 64, 11.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

  Open Access

• ‘King Solomon's mines cannot compare with the money that has been raked in by greyhound racing’: greyhound racing, its critics and the working class, c. 1926–1951

  Laybourn, K., 20 Oct 2014, In: Labor History. 55, 5, p. 607-621 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Working Class 100%
  • Gambling 65%
  • Leisure 53%
  • Minorities 51%
  • Middle Class 47%
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  The fall of the first MacDonald government, 1924

  Laybourn, K., 31 Jul 2013, How Labour Governments Fall: From Ramsay Macdonald to Gordon Brown. Heppell, T. & Theakston, K. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 14-37 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • liberal party 100%
  • labor 99%
  • USSR 65%
  • assistant 65%
  • newspaper 58%
• 2012

  Introduction

  Laybourn, K., 24 Oct 2012, In: Sport in Society. 15, 8, p. 1035-1037 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2011

  Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39: The fed, flying squads and forensics

  Laybourn, K. & Taylor, D., 15 May 2011, Palgrave Macmillan. 256 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Police 100%
  • Wales 89%
  • England 89%
  • police 68%
  • Professionalization 57%
  14 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  'There ought not to be one law for the rich and another for the poor which is the case to-day': The labour party, lotteries, gaming, gambling and bingo, c.1900-c.1960s

  Laybourn, K., 1 Apr 2008, In: History. 93, 310, p. 201-223 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Gaming 100%
  • Labour Party 98%
  • Gambling 97%
  • Lottery 85%
  • Working Class 29%
  7 Citations (Scopus)
• 2006

  Britain's First Labour Government

  Shepherd, J. & Laybourn, K., 2006, 1 ed. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan UK. 255 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Labour Government 100%
  • Foreign Policy 72%
  • Social Context 64%
  • 1920s 59%
  • Labor 54%
  12 Citations (Scopus)
• 2005

  Marxism in Britain: Dissent, Decline and Re-emergence 1945-c.2000

  Laybourn, K., 17 Nov 2005, 1 ed. London: Routledge. 222 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern British History)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Marxism 100%
  • Dissent 69%
  • Communist Party of Great Britain 43%
  • Communist Party 37%
  • Marxist 24%
  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2003

  Social Welfare: Public and Private, 1900-1939

  Laybourn, K., 1 Jan 2003, A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Wrigley, C. (ed.). Wiley Blackwell, p. 373-387 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 1999

  Book review: Shorter notice. Red Flag and Union Jack. English Patriotism and the British Left, 1881-1924. Paul Wood

  Laybourn, K., 1 Sep 1999, In: English Historical Review. 114, 458, p. 1017-1018 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review

• Shorter notice. Nelson. Politics, Economy, Community. J Hill

  Laybourn, K., 1 Apr 1999, In: English Historical Review. 114, 456, p. 522-523 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review

  Open Access

  • City History 100%
  • Manchester 78%
  • Economy 31%
• 1998

  Book review: Arthur J. Mclvor's Organised Capital. Employers' Associations and Industrial Relations in Northern England, 1880-1939 (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xvi + 305. £35)

  Laybourn, K., 1 Feb 1998, In: English Historical Review. 113, 450, p. 228-229 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review

  Open Access
• 1995

  The Rise of Labour and the Decline of Liberalism: The State of the Debate

  Laybourn, K., 1 Jun 1995, In: History. 80, 259, p. 207-226 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  31 Citations (Scopus)
• 1993

  The Guild of Help and the changing face of Edwardian philanthropy

  Laybourn, K., 1 Apr 1993, In: Urban History. 20, 1, p. 43-60 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • guild 100%
  • philanthropy 91%
  • Edwardian 88%
  • Philanthropy 87%
  • Guilds 80%
  9 Citations (Scopus)
• 1982

  The issue of school feeding in bradford, 1904–1907

  Laybourn, K., 1 Jul 1982, In: Journal of educational administration and history. 14, 2, p. 30-38 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  9 Citations (Scopus)
• 1975

  The emergence of the independent labour party in bradford

  Reynolds, J. & Laybourn, K., 1 Dec 1975, In: International Review of Social History. 20, 3, p. 313-346 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  24 Citations (Scopus)