When: Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PMWhere: Zoom
As we enter an election year, the Mile End Institute will celebrate the launch of Iain Dale’s new book, British General Election Campaigns, 1830-2019, with Iain Dale, Tim Bale, Jennifer Davey and Robert Saunders.
As we enter an election year, the Mile End Institute is pleased to celebrate the launch of Iain Dale’s new book, British General Election Campaigns, 1830-2019. Featuring an essay on every general election since 1830, the book ranges across every aspect of electoral history: from landslides and hung parliaments to corruption, electoral violence and the birth of the modern campaign. With a cast ranging from William Gladstone and Sir Robert Peel to Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson, it explores how elections are won and lost, how they have changed over time, and what lessons can be drawn for the present.
To explore the history of British elections, we will be joined for this live webinar by Iain Dale, Tim Bale, Jennifer Davey and Robert Saunders.
Iain Dale is an award-winning broadcaster with LBC radio and co-hosts the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. He has written or edited more than fifty books, including The Prime Ministers, The Presidents and On This Day in Politics.
Professor Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London and a respected broadcaster and political commentator. He is the co-author, with Rob Ford, Paula Surridge and Will Jennings, of The British General Election of 2019, and his most recent book is The Conservative Party After Brexit.
Dr Jennifer Davey is the Director of the History of Parliament project, and was previously Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Mary, Countess of Derby and the politics of Victorian Britain, and Editor-in-Chief of History: The Journal of the Historical Association.
Dr Robert Saunders is Reader in British History at Queen Mary University of London and Co-Director of the Mile End Institute. He is a regular commentator on British politics and author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics and Yes to Europe: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain.