Books by Laura Beers

Ellen Wilkinson viewed herself as part of an international radical community and became involved in socialist, feminist, and pacifist movements that spanned the globe. By focusing on the extent to which Wilkinson's activism transcended Britain's borders, Laura Beers adjusts our perception of the British Left in the early twentieth century.

In the early twentieth century, mass media - popular newspapers, radio, film - exploded at the same time that millions of Britons received the vote in the franchise expansions of 1918 and 1928. This book reminds us that the importance of the mass media to Labour's political fortunes is by no means a modern phenomenon.