This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.

Jonathan Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Anglia Ruskin University
Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University

Foreword by Peter Tatchell
Introduction: new histories of Labour and the left in the 1980s - Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam
Part I: The crisis of the Labour Party
1 Retrieving or re-Imagining the past? The case of 'Old Labour', 1979-94 - Eric Shaw
2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s - Martin Farr
3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties - Paul Bloomfield
4 Responsible capitalism: Labour's industrial policy and the idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s - Richard Carr
Part II: The British Left in a global context
5 Neil Kinnock's perestroika: Labour and the Soviet influence - Jonathan Davis
6 The international context: end of an era - John Callaghan
Part III: Currents of the Wider Left
7 Militant's laboratory: Liverpool City Council's struggle with the Thatcher government - Neil Pye
8 'Fill a Bag and Feed a Family': the miners' strike and its supporters - Maroula Joannou
9 'Race Today cannot fail': black radicalism in the long 1980s - Robin Bunce
Index