MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937), prime minister

by David Marquand

  • Early influences and first steps
  • Political apprenticeship and marriage
  • Building a party
  • Evolutionary socialism: theory and practice
  • Leader and widower
  • Peace campaigner and public enemy
  • The British Kerensky
  • Recovery
  • Prime minister
  • Foreign secretary
  • Red letter and direct action
  • Labour and the nation
  • Hopes dimmed
  • Marking time
  • Crisis
  • National saviour
  • Labour scapegoat
  • Downward path
  • Shifting perspectives

References

See also

Themes

  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs
  • Persia Committee
  • Labour Representation Committee members of the British parliament elected in 1906
  • Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
  • Labour Representation Committee
  • Rainbow Circle
  • Union of Democratic Control
  • general election of 1906
  • Leaders of the Labour Representation Committee and the Labour Party
  • Guilty men
  • National Labour

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  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives
  • Who Was Who

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