Keith Laybourn

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The topics are indicated above and my current and recent researchers are listed above. I have successfully supervised 39 PhD students, 3 Phils and 4 MAs by Research. I have externally examined 21 PhD students , 6. MPhils and an MA by Research student. I have acted as internal examiner to 16 PhD students.I have also been Independent Chair in 5 recent PhDs.

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82 Citations
6 h-Index
10 Chapter
10 Book/Film/Dance Article review
9 Book
8 Article
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- 3 Book/Film/Article review
- 1 Review article

41 results

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
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
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
2018

'A Divine Discontent with Wrong': The People's Martyrology
Laybourn, K. & Outram, Q., 30 Jan 2018, Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland: From Peterloo to the Present. 1 ed. p. 1-29 29 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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
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
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
'The People's Flag is Deepest Red, It Shrouded Oft Our Martyred Dead': Martyrdom and the People's History
Laybourn, K. & Outram, Q., 2018, Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland : From Peterloo to the Present. Outram, Q. & Laybourn, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 287-298 12 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

3 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
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., 31 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.). Routledge, p. 1-6 6 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
J.H. Whitley and Halifax Politics between 1890 and 1906: the Politics of Social Reform
Laybourn, K., 31 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.). Routledge, p. 67-85 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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
The disaffiliation crisis of 1932: the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the opinion of ILP members
Laybourn, K., Apr 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
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
2 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., 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
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
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
9 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
2 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
9 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
4 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
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

22 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
7 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

7 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

15 Citations (Scopus)

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