Author: Nick Smart
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312223298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The regime which governed Britain from 1931-1940, the National government, is often regarded as monolithic, "Tory dominated," and therefore boring. Actually it was none of these things. There were good reasons why, when it fell, nobody rushed to defend the old order, and while this book does not seek to do so, it does make the claim that the politics of the period are worthy of further exploration. The book seeks to explain the actions of politicians at the time by entering into the world they inhabited, giving fair and balanced treatment to a period of history that has largely been written off.