Professor Andrew Thorpe BA (Birm), PhD (Sheff), FRHistS

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Professor of Modern British History

My research centres on twentieth-century British political history, the history of party and policymaking, and international Communism in the era of the Communist International. I have worked extensively on the history of the Labour party, and also on Communist party history, but my interests are not confined to the parties of the left. My latest book analyses the organisation of all the major parties in Britain during the Second World War. I am now working on a project on the Labour leader, trade unionist, Methodist, statesman and Nobel Laureate Arthur Henderson (1863-1935).

For my latest book, Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain (OUP 2009), see http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199272730