The People's Peace by Morgan Kenneth O.;

Author:Morgan, Kenneth O.; [Morgan, Kenneth O.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2021-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

1 John Campbell’s biography, Edward Heath (London, 1993). is the major source. There is valuable material in Douglas Hurd. An End to Promises, and, with reservations, in Andrew Roth, Heath and the Heathmen (London, 1972).

2 See Hurd, op. cit.

3 David Butler and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, The British General Election of 1970 (London, 1971), 148–51, for its reception.

4 The Economist, 3 Apr. 1971.

5 Ibid. 28 November 1970.

6 A helpful work on this theme is Gerald A. Dorfman, Government versus Trade Unionism in British Politics since 1968 (London, 1979). For the Upper Clyde Shipyards, see Trade Union Congress Annual Report, 1971, 500–6.

7 The Economist, 5, 12 Dec. 1970. For a helpful summary, see E. H. Phelps Brown, The Origins of Trade Union Power, 179–81.

8 The Economist, 3, 10, 24 June 1972.

9 See Tony Hall, King Coal (Harmondsworth, 1981), 166–96 and Andrew Taylor, The Politics of the Yorkshire Miners (London, 1984).

10 Joe Gormley, Battered Cherub (London, 1982), 85 ff.

11 Ibid. 109.

12 The Economist, 19 Feb. 1972.

13 The Economist, 26 Feb. 1972; Financial Times, 19–22 Feb. 1972; The Times, 19–22 Feb. 1972.

14 The Economist, 8 Jan. 1972.

15 On this, see Jane Morgan, Conflict and Order: The Police and Labour Disputes in England and Wales, 1900–1939 (Oxford. 1987), chap. 6; Roger Geary, Policing Industrial Disputes, 1893 to 1985 (Cambridge, 1985), 73–7.

16 Michael Crick. Scargill and the Miners (Harmondsworth, 1985). 62.

17 The Economist, 4 Nov. 1972.

18 Ibid. 3 Mar. 1973.

19 Hall, King Coal, 201.

20 Hurd, An End to Promises, 95.

21 For events in Northern Ireland after 1970, helpful works include: Arthur and Jeffery, Northern Ireland since 1968; O’Malley, The Uncivil Wars: Kevin J. Kelley, The Longest War: Northern Ireland and the IRA (Westport, Conn., 1988 edn.). James Callaghan’s A House Divided contains some critical comments on Maudling’s policy; the latter’s memoirs are not very informative.

22 O’Malley, The Uncivil Wars, 208 n.

23 The Times, 31 Jan. 1972.

24 The Times, 9 Dec. 1973.

25 Kelley, The Longest War, 248 ff.

26 Hurd, An End of Promise, 40 ff. For the background to this, see the special ‘Britain East of Suez’ issue of International Affairs, 42, 2 (Apr. 1966), especially Hugh Hanning, ‘Britain East of Suez—facts and figures’, 253 ff.

27 Robert Blake, Rhodesia, 402–5.

28 The Times, 29 Oct. 1972.

29 The Economist, 30 Dec. 1972; cf. F. T. Blackaby (ed.), British Economic Policy, 1960–74 (Cambridge, 1978), 62 ff.

30 Andrew Gamble, The Free Economy and the Strong State: The Politics of Thatcherism (London, 1988), 74.

31 See Martin Dodsworth, ‘Criticism Now; the Abandonment of Tradition?’ in Boris Ford (ed.). The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, vol. 8, The Present (Harmondsworth, 1983), 82 ff.

32 The Economist, 19 May 1973.

33 See Tony Benn, Office without Power, passim, and especially 392 (entry of 31 Dec 1970).

34 Crosland, Socialism Now (London, 1974), especially 23 ft.

35 The Times, 2–4 October 1973. However, Tony Benn’s proposal for nationalizing the twenty-five major companies in the land was defeated by 5,600,000 to 291,000.

36 The Economist, 8 Dec. 1973.

37 Gormley, Battered Cherub, 128 ff.; Hall, King Coal, 206 ff.

38 Hurd, An End to Promise, 113.

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