On the 7 September troops confronted a crowd at Ackton Hall Colliery at Featherstone, near Pontefract, in the West Riding of Yorkshire during a prolonged attempt to resist a lock-out designed to enforce a cut in wages. At about 9.15 p.m. the magistrate, Bernard Hartley, ordered the troops to...

How did American and British policymakers become so enamored with free markets, deregulation, and limited government? This book--the first comprehensive transatlantic history of the rise of neoliberal politics--presents a surprising answer. Based on archival research and interviews with leading...

"This book investigates the policies of the Thatcher, Major and Blair governments and their approaches towards concentration of economic and political power. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary British history, political economy and politics, as well as specific...