Belief and Disbelief in the Space Between, 1914-1945 by Jean-Christophe MURAT

“…In his particular case, this meant turning his back on the middle-class nonconformist milieu he had been born into, and which had shaped his initial project to become a Methodist preacher, and deciding instead to help forward the civil war that should lead to a Soviet-inspired revolution in Britain. Hyde’s communism, however, never sat comfortably with the official line, despite the fact that he spent almost two decades tirelessly organising all sorts of Party-led campaigns, and about ten years working as news editor for the Daily Worker. …”
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The Pro-Boer Representation of War and the Origins of New Liberalism by Françoise Orazi

“…Moreover, the pro-Boer faction was to develop into one of the most significant trends of Liberal thought in the twentieth century, namely New Liberalism. Thus what appears to be a dissenting Representation of War gave birth to a new political movement that reconciled the pacifist and anti-imperialist liberalism that had been advocated by such great liberal figures as Richard Cobden and which was at the heart of Gladstone’s Midlothian campaign and the new generation of thinkers who were in favour of a greater intervention of the State.…”
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British Edition of the Monroe Doctrine versus ‘Com- munist Militarism’: Collisions between the USSR and the UK in Eastern Countries in the mid-1920s by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…Monroe in December 1823 has become a milestone both in the country’s history and in the theory and practice of international relations in general. For Great Britain, the principles of the Monroe Doctrine acquired new relevance after the end of the First World War. …”
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Vers de nouvelles formes générationnelles d’engagement au Parti travailliste britannique ? by Nicolas Jara-Joly, Denis Rayer

“…Between 2015 and 2020, the Labour Party, a traditional social-democratic political party led at the time by Jeremy Corbyn, an uncharismatic man in his late sixties, benefitted from a high level of popularity among young people in Britain. This initially counter-intuitive phenomenon has been linked in the existing literature to the Party manifesto, new campaigning methods and Corbyn’s personality traits. …”
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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…The book investigates youth political participation in Britain around and after the Brexit referendum in 2016 and is built around the new notion a “youthquake” – a term initially introduced by British media to describe the surprising success of the movement behind the Labour Party but later on also becoming Oxford Dictionaries’ 2017 word of the year. …”
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