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greatest althist i ever wroteWhat if former chairman of the Conservative Party Jeffrey Archer?
greatest althist i ever wroteWhat if former chairman of the Conservative Party Jeffrey Archer?
You know, I was thinking. You know Media althists where it's a list of different series based off a single pod? Like Star Trek and such?
Well, what series has a surprisingly tight continuity, an extensive spin-off franchise, multiple television series and an interesting set of ways things can turn out differently?
AHA!
a classic Christmas songtheory: there is no such thing as radiohead after creep. it is the collective hallucination of people who dont want to recognise that creep is a good song.
FIGHT ME SHEEPLE
1923: STANLEY BALDWIN (CONSERVATIVE)
1923-1924: HARRY TAWNEY (LABOUR MINORITY)
1923: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), H. H. Asquith (Liberal)
1924-29: STANLEY BALDWIN (CONSERVATIVE)
1924: Harry Tawney (Labour), H. H. Asquith (Liberal)
1929-31: RAMSAY MACDONALD (LABOUR)
1929: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), David Lloyd George (Liberal)
1931-32: STANLEY BALDWIN (CONSERVATIVE-NATIONAL LIBERAL COALITION)
1931: Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), Herbert Samuel (Liberal), John Simon (National Liberal)
1932-40: GEORGE LANSBURY (LABOUR)
1932: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Herbert Samuel (Liberal)
1937: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1940-46: HERBERT MORRISON (LABOUR-WAR GOVERNMENT)
1946-48: HERBERT MORRISON (NATIONAL)
1946: Anthony Eden (Continuity Conservative), Ernest Bevin (Continuity Labour), Stafford Cripps (Socialist Labour), Richard Acland (Liberal)
1948-50: JOHN SLESSOR (NONPARTISAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT)
1950-59: OLIVER LYTTELTON (CONSERVATIVE)
1950: Richard Acland (Liberal), Ernest Bevin (Continuity Labour), Stafford Cripps (Socialist Labour)
1955: James Callaghan (Labour), Mark Bonham-Carter (Liberal), Anthony Greenwood (Socialist Labour)
1959-69: IAN MACLEOD (CONSERVATIVE)
1960: George Brown (Labour), Anthony Greenwood (Socialist Labour), Mark Bonham-Carter (Liberal)
1964: George Brown (Labour), Enoch Powell (Unionist), Anthony Greenwood (Socialist Labour)
1969-78: PETER SHORE (LABOUR)
1969: Ian MacLeod (Conservative), Enoch Powell (Unionist), Barbara Castle (Socialist Labour)
1974: Jim Prior (Conservative), Enoch Powell (Unionist), Barbara Castle (Socialist Labour)
1978-85: ANTHONY MEYER (CONSERVATIVE)
1978: Peter Shore (Labour), Alan Clark (Unionist), Barbara Castle (Socialist Labour)
1983: David Owen (Labour), Alan Clark (Unionist), Albert Booth (Socialist Labour)
1985-94: DAVID OWEN (LABOUR)
1985: Anthony Meyer (Conservative), Albert Booth (Socialist Labour), Rhodes Boyson (Unionist)
1989: Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Margaret Hodge (Socialist Labour), Rhodes Boyson (Unionist)
1992: Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Margaret Hodge (Socialist Labour), Roger Knapman (Unionist)
1994-96: MARGARET HODGE (SOCIALIST LABOUR)
1996- : CHARLES KENNEDY (UNITED LABOUR)
1996: Anthony Lynton (Conservative), Roger Knapman (Unionist)
lmao excellentThe Complete Edition
He's got my vote!This killed me, you've earned yourself a follow.
Based.Militant took over the Labour Party
I should re-do that, maybe with tories as well, i think that's a solid joke concept.He's got my vote!
Those books are so unwieldy and unknown i can't imagine anyone that's not an academic or a member of the security services reading them.You were a fucking fool if you thought anything on British Trade Union would be simple. Let me show you the size of the books on Trade Unions and Labour in the 80s. View attachment 34086View attachment 34087
YOU UNDERESTIMATE USThose books are so unwieldy and unknown i can't imagine anyone that's not an academic or a member of the security services reading them.
And random anoraks*YOU UNDERESTIMATE US
I mainly use certain political biographies and books as giant resources for idea generating (since the internet only goes so far...), since reading a 600 political book about Trade Unions is the best way to cure insomnia.Those books are so unwieldy and unknown i can't imagine anyone that's not an academic or a member of the security services reading them.
part of the issue is that unless you have literal connections it's so difficult to find about internal struggles within unions, so any literature you can get to tell you how these giant factors in labour party operation actually run and work, you're at least 30% fucked, at least imoI mainly use certain political biographies and books as giant resources for idea generating (since the internet only goes so far...), since reading a 600 political book about Trade Unions is the best way to cure insomnia.