Books by Martin Pugh

A study of the life, personality and political career of David Lloyd George, which challenges the traditional view of Lloyd George as an outsider in British politics. It aims to combine an account of political, social and economic developments with an appraisal of the individual's role.

Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party.

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of great and unrelenting depression.

The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. adn Adela, banished to Australia after a bitter rift. The result is a narrative that reads like a novel, and a brilliant insight into the history of a family that changed the face of British society for ever.

Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars.