Professor Andrew Thorpe
Publications
Books
Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009.
A History of the British Labour Party, 3rd edition, Houndmills, Palgrave, 2008.
A History of the British Labour Party, 2nd edition., London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920-43, Manchester Univ Press, 2000.
Britain, 1916-1940, 1998.
with T Rees, International communism and the Communist International, 1919-43, Manchester Univ Pr, 1998.
A history of the British Labour Party, 1997.
The Longman companion to Britain in the era of the two world wars, 1914-45, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, 1994.
Britain in the 1930s, Blackwell Publishers, 1992.
The British general election of 1931, Oxford University Press, 1991.
The Failure of political extremism in inter-war Britain, University of Exeter Press, 1989.
Chapters
The 1929 general election and the second Labour government, in Davis J,Shepherd J,Wrigley CJ (eds) The Second Labour Government, 1929-1931, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011
Introduction, in Corthorn P,Davis J (eds) The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy, I. B. Tauris & Company, 2008, 1-24
British Communists and Anglo-French Relations between the Wars, in Capet A (eds) Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale since 1904, Palgrave, 2006, 78-104
with S Ball, M Worley, Elections, leaflets and whist drives: constituency party members in five British counties between the wars, in Worley M (eds) Labour's Grass Roots: Essays on the Activities of Local Labour Parties and Members, 1918-45, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
"One of the most backward areas of the country": The Labour Party's grass roots in the South-West of England, 1918-1945, in Worley M (eds) Labours Grassroots: Essays on the Activities of Local Labour Parties and Members, 1918-45, Ashgate, 2005, 217-240
Communist MP: Willie Gallacher and British Communism., in Morgan K,Cohen G,Finn A (eds) Agents of the Revolution: New Biographical Approaches to the History of International Communism in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, Peter Lang, 2005, 132-158
Entries on Thomas Kennedy, H. B. Lees-Smith, A. G. Walkden, and Sir Robert Young, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: OUP, 2004
'William Graham: Labour MP and Cabinet Minister', in Gildart K,Howell D,Kirk N (eds) Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume XI, Houndmills: Palgrave, 2003
Entries for 'A V Alexander', 'Lord Amulree', 'Arthur Greenwood', 'HM Hyndman', 'HB Lees-Smith', and 'Josiah Wedgwood', in Rosen G (eds) Dictionary of Labour Biography, London: Politicos, 2001
Journal articles
The Communist party and the New party, Contemporary British History, vol. 23, 2009, 477-491
Reconstructing Conservative party membership in World War II Britain, Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 62, 2009, 227-241
Conservative party agents in Second World War Britain, Twentieth Century British History, 2007
'In a rather emotional state'? The Labour party and British intervention in Greece, 1944-45., The English Historical Review, vol. cxxi, no. 493, 2006, 1075-1105
Reasons for “progressive” disunity: Labour and Liberal politics in Britain, 1918-45, Socialist History, vol. 27, 2005, 21-42
with S Ball, M Worley, Researching the grass roots: the records of constituency level political parties in five British counties, 1918-40, Archives, vol. 29, no. 110, 2004, 72-94
