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Le Royaume-Uni à l’épreuve de la crise, 1970-1979
Question de civilisation britannique, Agrégation anglais session 2017.
Bibliographie indicative proposée par Stéphane Porion, Université François Rabelais,
Tours.
Cette bibliographie indicative se compose de rubriques thématiques et biographiques
constituées principalement d’ouvrages et d’articles universitaires. Je tiens à remercier
chaleureusement les collègues qui m’ont apporté leur aide pour ce travail.
Les ouvrages précédés de deux étoiles (**) sont considérés comme fondamentaux. Ceux qui
sont précédés d’une étoile (*) sont importants. Les autres apportent d’utiles compléments
d’information.
1) Ouvrages/articles généraux sur les années 1970 et l’idée de « crise »
**BECKETT, Andy, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, London, Faber &
Faber, 2010.
**BLACK, Lawrence, “An Enlightening Decade? New Histories of 1970s Britain”, Review
Essay, International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 82, Fall 2012, pp. 174-186.
**BLACK, Lawrence et al., Reassessing 1970s Britain, Manchester, Manchester University
Press, 2013.
BOOKER, C., The Seventies: Portrait of a Decade, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1980.
*CHILDS, D., Britain since 1945: A Political History, (7th edition), Abingdon, Oxon, New
York, Routledge, 2012.
CALVOCORESSI, P., The British Experience 1945-1975, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1978.
DE GROOT, Gerard, The Seventies Unplugged, London, Pan Books, 2010.
*DUTTON, David, British Politics Since 1945: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Consensus,
(2nd edition), Oxford, Blackwell, 1997.
EATWELL, J., Whatever Happened to Britain, London, Duckworth, 1982.
FERGUSON, Niall et al., eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, Cambridge,
Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2010.
FORSTER, Laurel & HARPER, Sue, eds., British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost
Decade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
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*GARNETT, Mark, From Anger to Apathy: The Story of Politics, Society and Popular culture
in Britain since 1975, London, Vintage Books, 2008.
GARNETT, Mark, Principles and Politics in Contemporary Britain, London, New York,
Longman, 1996. (pp. 9-62)
GOLDSMITH, E., ed., Can Britain Survive?, London, Tom Stacey, 1971.
HALL, S. et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, London,
Macmillan, 1978.
*HARRISON, B., Finding a Role? The United Kingdom 1970-1990, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2010.
HASLAM, Dave, Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s, London, Harper
Perennial, 2010.
HUTBER, P., ed., What’s Wrong with Britain?, London, Sphere, 1978.
*KRAMMICK, Issac, ed., Is Britain Dying? Perspectives on the Current Crisis, Ithaca, NY,
Cornell University Press, 1979.
LEAN, G., Rebirth of a Nation, Poole, Blandford Press, 1976.
LEE, Stephen, J., British Political History, 1914-1995, London, New York, Routledge, 1996.
(chapters 14, 19, 21, 22, 23).
LERUEZ, Jacques & LERUEZ, Janine, Le Royaume-Uni au XXe siècle, Paris, Ellipses, 1997.
(chapitres 17, 19, 20, 21).
LOWE, R., “Life Begins in the Seventies?”, Journal of Contemporary History, 42:1, 2007,
pp. 161-169.
NAIRN, Tom, The Break-up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism, London, New Left Books,
1977.
PEMBERTON, H., “Strange Days Indeed: British Politics in the Seventies”, Contemporary
British History, 23:4, 2009, pp. 583-595.
**SANDBROOK, Dominic, Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979, London,
Penguin, 2013.
**SANDBROOK, Dominic, State of Emergency: The Way We State of Emergency: The Way
We Were, Britain 1970-1974, London, Penguin, 2010.
SEABROOK, J., What Went Wrong: Why Hasn’t Having More Made People Happier?, New
York, Pantheon, 1978.
SKED, A. & COOK, C., Post-War Britain (A Political History), (2nd edition), London, Penguin,
1984. (chapters 10-12).
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SOUNES, Howard, Seventies Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade, London, Pockets,
2007.
THANE, Pat, Unequal Britain: Inequalities in Britain since 1945, London, Continuum, 2010.
**TIRATSOO N., “You’ve Never Had It so Bad?”, in TIRATSOO, N., ed., From Blitz to Blair:
A New History of Britain since 1939, London, Phoenix, 1998, pp. 173-190.
**TURNER, Alwyn, W., Crisis, What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s. London, Aurum, 2013.
WHEEN, F., Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia, London, Fourth Estate, 2009.
WHITEHEAD, Philip, The Writing on the Wall: Britain in the Seventies, London, Joseph, in
association with Channel Four Television Company 1985.
II) Enjeux Politiques
BECK, P. et al., eds., Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Societies, Princeton, NJ,
Princeton University Press, 1984. (pp. 298-339).
*BEER, S., H., Britain against Itself: The Political Contradictions of Collectivism, London,
Faber, 1982.
BOYSON, R., Right Turn: A Symposium on the Need to End the ‘Progressive’ Consensus in
British Thinking and Policy, London, Churchill Press, 1970.
BUTLER, D. & STOKES, D., Political Change in Britain: The Evolution of Electoral Choice,
(2nd edition), London, Macmillan, 1974.
CLUTTERBUCK, R., Britain in Agony: The Growth of Political Violence, London, Faber,
1978.
DOUGLAS, J., “The Overloaded Crown”, British Journal of Political Science, 6:4, 1976,
pp. 483-505.
HENNESSY, P., The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945, London, Penguin,
2001.
*HEPPELL, T., ed., Leaders of the Opposition: From Churchill to Cameron, Basingstoke,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. (Chapters 5, 7 & 8)
*KING, A., “Overload: Problems of Governing in the 1970s”, Political Studies, 23:2-3, 1975,
pp. 284-296.
KING, A., Why is Britain Becoming Harder to Govern?, London, BBC Books, 1976.
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NORTON, Philip, Dissension in the House of Commons, 1974-1979, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1980.
NORTON, Philip, The House of Commons in the 1970s: Three Views on Reform, Hull,
Department of Politics, 1978.
ROSE, R., “Ungovernability: Is There Fire behind the Smoke?”, Political Studies, 27:3, 1979,
pp. 351-370.
*SARLVIK, BO, Decade of Dealignment: the Conservative Victory of 1979 and Electoral
Trends in the 1970s, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
SAMPSON, A., The Changing Anatomy of Britain, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982.
III) Partis politiques

Le Parti conservateur
**BALL, S. & SELDON, A., eds., The Heath Government, 1970-1974: A Reappraisal,
London, Longman, 1996.
BALL, S. & SELDON, A., eds., Recovering Power: The Conservatives in Opposition since
1867, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (Chapter 10).
COSGRAVE, P., Margaret Thatcher: A Tory and Her Party, London, Hutchsinson, 1978.
COWLING, M., Conservative Essays, London, Cassell, 1978.
GILMOUR, I. & GARNETT, M., Whatever Happened to the Tories: The Conservatives since
1945, London, Fourth Estate, 1997.
HEPPELL, T., The Tories: From Winston Churchill to David Cameron, London, Bloomsbury,
2014. (Chapters 2 & 3).
*HOLMES, M., The Failure of the Heath Government, (2nd edition), Basingstoke, Macmillan,
1997.
*MACSHANE, D., Heath, London, Haus Publishing, 2006.
MONEY, E., Margaret Thatcher: First Lady of the House, London, Leslie Frewin, 1975.
NORTON, P., Conservation Dissidents: Dissent within the Parliamentary Conservative Party,
1970-1974, London, Temple Smith, 1978.
*ROTH, A., Heath and the Heathmen, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
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RUSSEL, T., The Tory Party: Its Policies, Divisions and Future, Harmondsworth, Penguin,
1978.
ZIG-LAYTON, H., Conservative Party Politics, London, Macmillan, 1980.
WALDEGRAVE, W., The Binding of Leviathan: Conservatism and the Future, London,
Hamish Hamilton, 1978.
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Le Parti travailliste
*BELL, P., The Labour Party in Opposition 1970-1974, London, New York, Routledge, 2004.
COATES, K., The Crisis of British Socialism: Essays on the Rise of Harold Wilson and the
Fall of the Labour Party, London, Spokesman, 1971.
*DONOUGHUE, B., Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson and James
Callaghan, London, Cape, 1987.
HAYTER, DIANNE, Fightback!: Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s,
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005.
*HICKSON, K. & SELDON, A., New Labour, Old Labour: The Wilson and Callaghan, 19741979, London, Routledge, 2004.
JONES, T., Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair, London, New York,
Routledge, 1996.
KOGAN, D. & KOGAN, M., The Battle for the Labour Party, London, Kogan, 1982.
**MEREDITH, S, Labours Old and New: The Parliamentary Right of the British Labour Party,
1970-1979, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008.
STEWART, M., Protest or Power? A Study of the Labour Party, London, George Allen &
Unwin, 1974.
TAYLOR, A., The Trade Unions and the Labour Party, London, Croom Helm, 1987.
WILSON, H., Final Term: The Labour Government 1974-1976, London, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1979.
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Le Parti libéral
BRACK, Duncan & INGHAM, Robert, LITTLE, Tony, British Liberal Leaders, London,
Biteback, 2015. (pp. 311-334).
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*COOK, Chris, A Short History of the Liberal Party, 1900-2001, (6th edition), Basingstoke,
Palgrave, 2002. (pp. 137–173).
DOUGLAS, Roy, Liberals, London, Hambledon & London, 2005. (pp. 262—284).
**DUTTON, David, A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century, Basingstoke,
Palgrave, 2004. (pp. 184—240).
HICKSON, Kevin, The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945,
Manchester, MUP, 2009.
INGHAM, Robert & BRACK, Duncan, Peace, Reform and Liberation, London, Biteback
Publishing, 2011. (pp. 241—306).
JOYCE, Peter, Realignment of the Left?, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999. (pp. 151—223).
**KIRKUP, Jonathan, The Lib-Lab Pact: A Parliamentary Agreement 1977-1978,
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
*MICHIE, Alistair & HOGGART, Simon, The Pact, The Inside Story of the Lib-Lab
Government, 1977-1978, London, Faber & Faber, 1978.
**STEEL, David, A House Divided, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980.
WALKER, David, The Strange Rebirth of Liberal England, London: Politico’s, 2003.
(pp. 33—116).

Le National Front
BILLIG, Michael, Fascists (A Social Psychological View of the National Front), London, New
York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
*CRONIN, Mike, ed., The Failure of British Fascism – The Far Right and the Fight for
Political Recognition, London, Macmillan, 1996.
EDGAR, David, “Racism Fascism and the Politics of the National Front”, Race and Class,
Vol. 19, n° 2, Autumn 1977.
FIELDING, Nigel, The National Front, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
NUGENT, N. & KING, R., ed., The British Right, Hants, Saxon House, 1977.
SHIPLEY, Peter., The National Front: Racialism and Neo-Fascism in Britain, Conflict Studies
n° 97, July 1978.
*TAYLOR, Stan, The National Front in English Politics, London, Macmillan, 1982.
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THURLOW, R., Fascism in Britain, From Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts to the National Front,
London, I. B. Tauris & Co, 1998.
WALKER, Martin, The National Front, London, Fontana, 1977.

Les Verts/questions écologiques
ECOLOGIST (The), A Blueprint for Survival, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972.
HARDY, Dennis, From New Towns to Green Politics Campaigning for Town and Country
Planning, 1946-1990, London/New York, E & FN Spon, 1991.
PORRITT, J., Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained, New York, Basil Blackwell,
1984.
*PORRITT, J. & WINNER, D., The Coming of the Greens, London, Fontana/Collins, 1988.
RICHARDSON, D & ROOTES, C., The Green Challenge (The Development of Green Parties
in Europe), Abingdon, Routledge, 1995. (Introduction & chapter 4).
RUDIG, Wolfgang & COLE, Philip, “The Withered Greening of British Politics: A Study of
the Ecology Party”, Political Studies 34, June, 1986, pp. 262-284.
*RUDIG, W., ed., Green Politics One, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990.
RUDIG, W., ed., Green Politics Two, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
IV) Petits partis nationalistes/dévolution
ABALAIN, Hervé, Le pays de Galles. Identité, modernité, Crozon, Armeline, 2000.
**BOGDANOR, Vernon, Devolution in the United Kingdom, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
1999.
**CAMP-PIETRAIN, Edwige, La Dévolution. Ecosse, pays de Galles, Neuilly, Atlande, 2006.
CIVARDI, Christian & JONES, Moya, eds., « La Dévolution des Pouvoirs à l'Ecosse et au pays
de Galles », Revue française de civilisation britannique, vol. XIV, n°1, 2006.
**DUCLOS, Nathalie, La Dévolution des pouvoirs à l'Ecosse et au pays de Galles 1966-1999,
Nantes, éditions du Temps, 2007.
LERUEZ, Jacques, L'Ecosse. Vieille nation, jeune Etat, Crozon, Armeline, 2000.
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JONES, Moya & LEYDIER, Gilles, La Dévolution des pouvoirs à l'Ecosse et au pays de Galles,
Paris, CNED/Armand Colin, 2006.
LEVY, Roger, Scottish Nationalism at the Crossroads, Edimbourg, Scottish Academic Press,
1990.
*LYNCH, Peter, The History of the SNP, Cardiff, Welsh Academic Press, 2002.
*MCALLISTER, Laura, Plaid Cymru. The Emergence of a Political Party, Bridgend, Seren,
2001.
*MORGAN, Kenneth, O., History of Modern Wales, Oxford, OUP, 1981.
V) Irlande du Nord
ANDERSON, D., Fourteen May Days: The Inside Story of the Loyalist Strike of 1974, Dublin,
Gill & Macmillan, 1994.
*BARDON, J., A History of Ulster, (4th edition), Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 2001.
**BEATTIE-SMITH, W., The British State and the Northern Ireland Crisis, 1969—73: From
Violence to Power Sharing, Washington, US Institute of Peace Press, 2011.
Bloody
Sunday
Inquiry
Website.
<http://webarchive.nationalarchives.
gov.uk/20101103103930/http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org>
*BRUCE, S., The Edge of the Union. The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1994.
CAMERON, Lord, Disturbances in Northern Ireland. Report of the Commission Appointed by
the Governor of Northern Ireland, Belfast, HMSO, 1969.
*COOGAN, T. P., The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace,
London, Hutchinson, 1995.
*DAWSON, G., Making Peace With the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles,
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007.
*ENGLISH, R., Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland, London, Macmillan,
2007.
GRIMALDI, F. & NORTH, S., Blood in the Street, (2nd edition), Derry/Londonderry, Guildhall
Press, 1998.
*HENNESSY, T., The Evolution of the Troubles 1970-72, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2007.
*KERR, M., The Destructors: The Story of Northern Ireland's Lost Peace Process, Dublin,
Irish Academic Press, 2011.
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*MAILLOT, A., IRA : Les Républicains irlandais, (2nd édition), Caen, Presses Universitaires
de Caen, 1998.
*MCCLEERY, M. J., Operation Demetrius and its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of
Internment without Trial in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, Manchester, Manchester
University Press, 2015.
**MCDAID, S., Template for Peace. Northern Ireland, 1972–75, Manchester, Manchester
University Press, 2013.
**MCGARRY, J. & O’LEARY, B., Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images, Oxford,
Wiley, 1995.
**MCGRATTAN, C., Northern Ireland 1968-2008, The Politics of Entrenchment,
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
*O’DOCHARTAIGH, N., From Civil Rights to Armalites, Derry and the Birth of the Irish
Troubles, (2nd edition), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
*PRINCE, S., Northern Ireland ’68. Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origins of the
Troubles, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2007.
SCARMAN, Lord, Violence and Civil Disturbances in Northern Ireland in 1969, Report of
Tribunal of Inquiry, Belfast, HMSO, 1972.
*WALKER, G., A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism, and Pessimism,
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004.
VI) Questions économiques

Idée de « déclin économique » britannique
ALT, J., E., The Politics of Economic Decline: Economic Management and Political Behaviour
in Britain since 1964, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979.
*BUDGE, I., “Relative Decline as a Political Issue: Ideological Motivations of the PoliticoEconomic Debate in Post-War Britain, Contemporary Record, 7:1, 1993, pp. 1-23.
CLARKE, P. & TREBILCOCK, C., eds., Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of
Britain’s Economic Performance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
COATES, D., The Crisis of Labour: Industrial Relations and the State in Contemporary
Britain, Oxford, Philip Allan, 1989.
ENGLISH, R. & KENNY, M., eds., Rethinking British Decline, London, Macmillan, 2000.
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GLYN, A. & HARRISON, J., The British Economic Disaster, London, Pluto Press, 1980.
**MATTHIJS Matthias, Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (19452005), London, Routledge, 2010. (Chapter 1 and chapter 4).
MIDDLETON, R., “The Political Economy of Decline”, Journal of Contemporary History,
41:3, 2006, pp. 573-586.
OLSON, M., The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation and Social
Rigidities, London, Yale University Press, 1982.
POLLARD, S., The Wasting of the British Economy: British Economic Policy 1945 to the
Present, London, Croom Helm, 1982.
SUPPLE, B., E., “Fear of Falling: Economic History and the Decline of Britain”, Economic
History Review, 47:3, 1994, pp. 441-458.
*TOMLINSON, J., “Inventing ‘Decline’: The Falling behind of the British Economy in the
Post-War Years, Economic History Review, 49:4, 1996, pp. 734-760.
TOMLINSON, J., “Tale of a Death Exaggerated: How Keynesian Policies Survived the 1970s”,
Contemporary British History, 21:4, 2007, pp. 429-448.
*TOMLINSON, J., The Politics of Decline: Understanding Post-War Britain, London,
Longman, 2000.
*TOMLINSON, J., “Thrice Denied: ‘Declinism’ as a Recurrent Theme in British History in the
Long Twentieth Century”, Twentieth Century British History, 20:2, 2009, pp. 227-251.

The Winter of Discontent
**BLACK, Lawrence & PEMBERTON, Hugh, “The ‘Winter of Discontent’ in British
Politics”, Political Quarterly, N° 80, 2009, pp. 553-561.
**HAY, Colin, “Chronicles of a Death Foretold: The Winter of Discontent and Construction
of the Crisis of British Keynesianism”, Parliamentary Affairs, N° 63, 2010, pp. 446-470.
**HAY, Colin, “Narrating Crisis: The Discursive Construction of the ‘Winter of Discontent’”,
Sociology, 30:2, 1996, pp. 253-277.
HAY, Colin, “The Winter of Discontent Thirty Years On”, Political Quarterly, 80:4, 2009,
pp. 545-552.
THOMAS, J., “Bound in by History: The Winter of Discontent in British Politics, 1979-2004”,
Media, Culture and Society, 29:2, 2007, pp. 263-283.
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
Politiques économiques
BEHREND, Hilde, Problems of Labour and Inflation, London, Croom Helm, 1984.
BLACK, L. & Pemberton, H., eds., An Affluent Society: Britain’s ‘Golden Age’ Revisited,
Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004.
BRITTAN, S., “The Economic Contradiction of Democracy”, British Journal of Political
Studies, 5:2, 1975, pp. 129-159.
BRITTAN, S., The Economic Consequences of Democracy, London, Temple Smith, 1977.
**BRITTON, Andrew J. , Macroeconomic Policy in Britain 1974-87, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1991.
BURK, K. & CAIRNCROSS, A., Goodbye Great Britain: The 1976 IMF Crisis, New Haven,
CT, Yale University Press, 1992.
*COOPEY, R. & WOODWARD, N., W., C., eds., Britain in the 1970: The Troubled Economy,
London, UCL Press, 1996.
**DELL, Edmund, The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945-90,
London, HarperCollins, 1997. (Chapter 13 and chapter 14).
FALLICK, J. & ELLIOTT, R., eds., Incomes Policies, Inflation and Relative Pay, London,
Allen & Unwin, 1981.
**HARMON, Mark D., The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF crisis, Macmillan
Press Ltd, 1997.
**HICKSON Kevin, The IMF Crisis of 1976 and British Politics, London, Tauris Academic
Studies, 2005.
**HOLMES Martin, Political Pressure and Economic Policy: British government 1970-1974,
London, Butterworth, 1983.
**HOLMES Martin, The Labour Government 1974-1979: Political Aims and Economic
Reality, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1985.
KEEGAN, W. & PENNANT-REA, R., Who Runs the Economy?, London, Temple Smith,
1979. (chapters 4-6).
LOVATT, David, Unemployment and Class Conflict in Britain during the 1970s, London
University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture & Planning, 1980.
ROBINSON, Colin, The Energy ‘Crisis’ and British Coal: The Economics of the Fuel Market
in the 1970s and beyond, London Institute of Economic Affairs, 1974.
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THOMPSON, Noel, W., Political Economy and the Labour Party: The Economics of
Democratic Socialism 1884-2005, (2nd edition), New York, Routledge, 2006.
WADE, R., Conservative Party Economic Policy (From Heath in Opposition to Cameron in
Coalition), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
WICKHAM-JONES, M., Economic Strategy and the Labour Party, Basingstoke, Macmillan,
1996.
WIENER, M., J., English Culture and the Decline of Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1981.
*WILLIAMSON, Adrian, Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism,
1964-1979, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Syndicats
ALDCROFT, Derek, Howard & OLIVER, Michael, J., Trade Unions and the Economy, 18702000, Aldershot, Hants, 2000.
FERRIS, P., The New Militants: Crisis in the Trade Unions, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972.
GOUREVITCH, Peter et al., Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany and Sweden,
London, Routledge, 1984.
HAIN, P., Political Strikes: The State and Trade Unionism in Britain, London, Viking, 1986.
LAYBOURN, Keith, A History of British Trade Unionism, 1770-1990, Stroud, Wolfeboro
Falls, NH, A. Sutton, 1992.
MARSH, David, The New Politics of British Trade Unionism (Union Power and the Thatcher
Legacy), Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1992. (pp. 1-64).
MCILROY, J. et al., eds., British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1945-1979, Vol. 2,
Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999.
*MCILROY, J. et al., eds., The High Tide of British Trade Unionism: Trade Unions and
Industrial Politics, 1964-1979, London, The Merlin Press, 2007.
*MCINTOSH, Ronald, Challenge to Democracy: Politics, Trade Union Power and Economic
failure in the 1970s, London, Politico’s, 2006.
*MILLIGAN, Stephen, The New Barons: Union Power in the 1970s, London, Temple Smith,
1976.
PELLING, Henry, A History of British Trade Unionism, London, Penguin, 1982.
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PIMLOTT, Ben & COOK Chris, Trade Unions in British Politics, (2nd edition), London, New
York, Longman Higher Education, 1982.
REID, Alistair, J., United We Stand: A History of Britain’s Trade Unions, London, Penguin,
2005.
TAYLOR, Robert, From the General Strike to New Unionism, Basingstoke, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2000.
*TAYLOR, Robert, The Fifth Estate: Britain's Unions in the Seventies, London, Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1978.
WRIGLEY, Chris, British Trade Unions since 1933, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2012.
VII) Les enjeux de l’intégration européenne
ALEXANDRE-COLLIER, A., La Grande-Bretagne eurosceptique? : L’Europe dans le débat
politique britannique, Nantes, Édition du Temps, 2002.
BROAD, R., Labour’s European Dilemma: From Bevin to Blair, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001.
*BUTLER, D. & KITZINGER, U., The 1975 Referendum, London, Macmillan, 1976.
CROWSON, N., J., Britain and Europe (A Political History since 1918), London, New York,
Routledge, 2011. (Chapters 3 & 4).
CROWSON, N., J., Conservative Party and European Integration since 1945, London,
Routledge, 2006.
DADDOW, O., ed., Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain’s Second Application to
Join the EEC, London, Frank Cass, 2003.
FORESTER, A., Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics: Opposition to Europe in the
British Conservative and Labour Party since 1945, London, Routledge, 2002.
GEORGE, S., An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1994.
GEORGE, S., Politics and Policy within the European Community, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1985.
GREENWOOD, S., Britain and European Co-operation since 1945, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992.
KITZINGER, U., Diplomacy and Persuasion: How Britain Joined the Common Market,
London, Thames and Hudson, 1973.
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LEIBER, R., J., British Politics and European Unity: Parties, Elites and Pressure Groups,
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970.
*LORD, C., British Entry to the European Community: Under the Heath Government of 19701974, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1993.
*MIDDLEMAS, K., Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of European Union, 19731995, London, Fontana, 1997.
O’NEILL, C., Britain’s Entry into the European Community: Report on the Negotiations of
1970-1972, London, Cass, 2000.
SCHNAPPER, P., La Grande-Bretagne et l’Europe : Le Grand malentendu, Paris, Presses de
Sciences Po, 2000.
TAYLOR, Paul, The EC Crisis over the Budget and the Agricultural Policy: Britain and its
Partners in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Government and Opposition, 17 (4), 1982, pp. 397413.
YOUNG, J., W., Britain and European Unity, 1945, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1993. (Chapters
4 & 5).
VIII) Politiques sociales

État-Providence
HILL, M., The Welfare State in Britain (A Political History since 1945), Aldershot, Edward
Elgar Publishing, 1993.
*LOWE, R., The Welfare State in Britain since 1945, (2nd edition), Basingstoke, Macmillan,
1999.
*TIMMINS, N., The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State, London, Fontana Press,
1995.

Education
*BALL, S. J., Class Strategies and the Education Market: The Middle Classes and Social
Advantage, London, Routledge, 2003.
**BENN, C., & Chitty, C., Thirty Years on: Is Comprehensive Education Alive and Well or
Struggling to Survive?, London, David Fulton Publishers, 1996.
Brooks, R., Contemporary Debates in Education: An Historical Perspective, London,
Longman, 1991.
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**CALLAGHAN, J., “Towards a national debate”, Ruskin College Oxford, 18 October 1976,
http://www.theguardian.com/education/thegreatdebate/story/0,,574645,00.html
CHITTY, C., Towards a New Education System: The Victory of the New Right?, London, New
York, Falmer Press, 1989.
CHITTY, C., Education policy in Britain, (2nd edition), New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
*CHITTY, C., New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010, London, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013.
COX, B. & BOYSON, R. & AMIS, K., eds., Black Paper 1975: The Fight for Education,
London, Dent, 1975.
COX, B. & BOYSON, R., eds., Black paper 1977, London, Temple Smith, 1977.
*DENT, H. C., Education in England and Wales, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1979.
*DES, School Education in England: Problems and Initiatives (The Yellow Book), London,
HMSO, 1976.
*DES, Education in Schools: A Consultative Document, Green Paper, London: HMSO, 1977.
EDWARDS, T. & POWER, S., eds., Education and the Middle Class, Buckingham, Open
University Press, 2003.
**EVANS, K., The Development and Structure of the English School System, London, Hodder
and Stoughton, 1985.
*FENWICK, K., The Comprehensive School, 1944-1970: The Politics of Secondary School
Reorganization, London, Methuen, 1976.
*HMI, Mixed Ability Work in Comprehensive Schools, London, HMSO, 1978.
**HOPKINS, A., The School Debate, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1978.
*JONES, B., ed., Political Issues in Britain Today, (3rd edition), Manchester, Manchester
University Press, 1989.
**JONES, K., Education in Britain: 1944 to the Present, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003.
**JUDGE, H. G., A Generation of Schooling: English Secondary Schools since 1944, Oxford,
New York, Oxford University Press, 1984.
*KARABEL, J., HALSEY, A. H., & KARABEL-HALSEY, eds., Power and Ideology in
Education, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977.
*KNIGHT, C., The Making of Tory Education Policy in Post-War Britain, 1950-1986, London,
New York, Falmer Press, 1990.
KOGAN, M., & BOWDEN, K., Educational Policy-Making: A Study of Interest Groups and
Parliament, London, Allen & Unwin, 1975.
LAWLOR, John, Higher Education: Patterns of Change in the 1970s, London/Boston,
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
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*LAWTON, D., Education and Labour Party Ideologies, 1900-2001 and Beyond, London,
New York, NY, Routledge Falmer, 2004.
*LAWTON, D., The Tory Mind on Education, 1979-1994, London, Routledge, 2011.
*LAWTON, D., Class, Culture and the Curriculum, London, Routledge, 2014.
*LELAIDIER, V., L’Enseignement en Angleterre, Nancy, Presses Universitaires de Nancy,
1992.
**LEMOSSE, M., Education in England and Wales: from 1870 to the Present Day, Paris,
Longman France, 1992.
**LEMOSSE, M., Le Système éducatif anglais depuis 1944, Paris, Presses Universitaires de
France, 2000.
*MEIGHAN, R. & BARTON, L. & WALKER, S., A Sociology of Educating, London, Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, 1986.
*REID, I., (1989). Social Class Differences in Britain: Life-Chances and Life-Styles,
(3rd edition), London, Fontana Press, 1989.
*RICHOND, W. K., Education in Britain since 1944: A Personal Retrospect, London, New
York, Routledge, 2007.
SANDERSON, M., Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
TOMLINSON, S., Education in a Post-Welfare Society, Buckingham, Open University Press,
2005.
*WILLIS, P. E., Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs,
Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006.
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Système de santé (NHS)
**KLEIN, Rudolph, The Politics of the NHS, London, New York, Longman, 1989.
KOKER-SMITH, A., Le Système de santé anglais à l’épreuve des réformes managériales,
Rennes, PUR, 2010. (pp. 33-45).
*HAM, Christopher, Health Policy in Britain, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
*WATKIN, Brian, The National Health Service: The First Phase, 1948-74 And After,
London, HarperCollins, 1978.
BERRIDGE, Virginia, Health and Society in Britain Since 1939, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1999.
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GLENNERSTER, Howard, British Social Policy Since 1945, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers,
2000.
RIVETT, Geoffrey, From Cradle to Grave: Fifty Years of the NHS, London, King’s Fund,
1998.
WEBSTER, Charles, The National Health Service, (2nd edition), Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2002.
IX) Musique et mouvement Punk
CLOONAN, M., Banned! Censorship of Popular Music in Britain: 1967-1992, Aldershot,
Arena, 1996.
CRIMLIS, R. & TURNER, A., W., Cult Rock Posters 1972-1982, London, Aurum, 2006.
**HEBDIGE, Dick, Subcultures: The Meaning of Style, London, Routledge, 1979.
SABIN, R., ed., Punk Rock, So What? The Cultural Legacy of Punk, London, Routledge, 1999.
**SAVAGE, Jon, England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, London, Faber &
Faber, 2005.
*SIMONELLI, David, Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and
1970s, Lanham, Lexington Books 2013.
**ROBB, John, Punk Rock: An Oral History, London, Ebury, 2006.
X) Questions sociales/sociétales
BOLT, Christine, Sisterhood Questioned: Race, Class and Internationalism in the American
and British Women's Movements, c.1880s-1970s, New York/London, Routledge 2004.
(Chapter 8)
*DAVIES, Christie, Permissive Britain: Social Change in the Sixties and Seventies, London,
Pitman, 1975.
FARRAR, M., “The Libertarian Movement of the 1970s: What Can We Learn ?”, Edinburgh
Review, 82 (winter 1989), pp. 58-74.
*FAIRBAIRNS, ZOE, Saying what We Want: Women's Demands in the Feminist Seventies and
Now, 2002, York, Raw Nerve Books.
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HICKSON, K., “Conservatism and the Poor: Conservative Party Attitude to Poverty and
Inequality since the 1970s”, British Politics, 4:3, 2009, pp. 341-362.
HOLDEN, A., Makers and Manners: Politics and Morality in Post-War Britain, London,
Methuen, 2004.
*HOPKINS, E., The Rise and Decline of the English Working Classes 1918 - 1990: A Social
History, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991.
KERR, J., Understanding Soccer: Hooliganism, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1994.
MCMANUS, M., Tory Pride and Prejudice (The Conservative Party and Homosexual Law
Reform), London, Biteback Publishing, 2011. (Chapter 5).
PEARSON, G., Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1983.
PUGH, Martin, Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-1999, (2nd edition),
London, Macmillan, 2000.
REES, J., “A Look Back at Anger: the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1978”, Women’s
History Review, 19 :3, 2010, pp. 337-56.
ROBOWBOTHAN, S. et al., Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism,
London, Merlin Press, 1979.
*RYDER, J., & SILVER, H., Modern English Society, (3rd edition). London, Methuen, 1985.
THANE, Pat & Tanya EVANS, Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in
Twentieth-Century England, Oxford, OUP, 2012 & 2013 (poche).
**WEEKS, J., Coming Out (Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the
Present), London, New York, Quartet Books, 1990. (pp. 185-230).
WEEKS, J., Sex, Politics & Society (The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800), (2nd edition),
London, New York, Longman, 1989. (pp. 282-291)
*ZABALZA, A. & Z. TZANNATOS, Women and Equal Pay: The Effect of Legislation on
Female Employment and Wages in Britain, Cambridge, CUP, 1985.
XI) Immigration
*BLEICH, E., Race Politics in Britain and France (Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s),
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Chapter 4)
FREEMAN, G., P., Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies: The French
and British Experience, 1945-1975, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1979.
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**HANSEN, R., Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2000.
KATHLEEN, Paul, Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Post-War Era, Ithaca,
NY, Cornell University Press, 1997.
*LAYTON-HENRY, Z., The Politics of Immigration: Immigration, ‘Race’ and ‘Race’
Relations in Post-War Britain, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992.
*MESSINA, A., Race and Party Competition in Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
1989.
RICH, P., B., Race and Empire in British Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1986. (Chapter 8).
SPENCER, Ian, R., G., British Immigration Policy since 1939, London, Routledge, 1997.
(Chapter 5).
XII) Mémoires, autobiographies, biographies politiques
BARTRAM, Peter, David Steel, His Life and Politics, London, Allen, 1981.
BENN, Tony, ed. Ruth Winstone, Office Without Power, Diaries 1968-1972, London,
Hutchinson, 1988.
BENN, Tony, ed. Ruth Winstone, Against the Tide: Diaries 1973-1976, London, Hutchinson,
1989.
BENN, Tony, ed. Ruth Winstone, Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-1980, London,
Hutchinson, 1990.
BLOCH, Michael, Jeremy Thorpe, London, Abacus, 2016.
CALLAGHAN, J., Time and Chance, London, William Collins, 1987.
CAMPBELL, John, Edward Heath: A Biography, London, Jonathan Cape, 1993.
CAMPBELL, John, Roy Jenkins: A Biography, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983.
CASTLE, Barbara, The Castle Diaries 1974-1976, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980.
CLARK, A., Diaries: Into Politics 1972-1980, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
CONROY, H., Callaghan, London, Haus, 2006.
CROSLAND, S., Tony Crosland, London, Jonathan Cape, 1982.
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DONOUGHUE, B., Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10, London, Jonathan
Cape, 2005.
DONOUGHUE, B., Downing Street Diaries, Vol. 2: With Callaghan in No. 10, London,
Jonathan Cape, 2008.
FREEMAN, S. & PENROSE, B., Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe, London,
Bloomsbury, 1996.
HAINES, J., Glimmers of Twilight, Harold Wilson in Decline, London, Politico’s, 2003.
HEALEY, D., The Time of my Life, London, Michael Joseph, 1989.
HEATH, Edward, The Course of my Life, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1998.
HICKSON, K. & CRINES, A., S., Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister?:
Reappraising Harold Wilson, London, Biteback Publishing, 2016.
KELLNER, P. & HITCHENS, C., Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten, London, Cassell &
Co, 1976.
LAING, M., Edward Heath, Prime Minister, London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972.
MCMANUS, M., Edward Heath: A Singular Life, London, Elliott & Thompson, 2016.
MORRISON, H., Keith Joseph: A Single Mind, London, Macmillan, 1989.
PIMLOTT, B., Harold Wilson, London, HarperCollins, 1992.
POWELL, E., No Easy Answers, London, Sheldon, 1973.
RADICE, G., Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey, London, Abacus, 2003.
ROUTLEDGE, P., Scargill: The Unauthorized Biography, London, HarperCollins, 1993.
SHEPHERD, R., Enoch Powell: A Biography, London, Pimlico, 1997.
STEEL, David, Against Goliath, London, Pan Book, 1991, (pp. 1–260).
THATCHER, Margaret, The Path to Power, New York, HarperCollins, 1995.
THORPE, Jeremy, In My Own Time, London, Politico’s, 1999.
ZIEGLER, P., Edward Heath (The Authorised Biography), London, HarperPress, 2010.
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