Enoch Powell - Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain

Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on what came to be known as Thatcherism.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: International Relations


• 2: Economics


• 3: Immigration


• 4: Europe


• 5: Northern Ireland


• 6: Conclusion


• Index

About the author

Paul Corthorn is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen's University Belfast. He has published widely on twentieth century British political history, including In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s (2006) and The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy (2008), co-edited with Jonathan Davis. He lives in Belfast with his family.

Summary

Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on what came to be known as Thatcherism.

Additional text

Enoch Powell remains the single most controversial politician in modern British history. Yet more than half a century after his most incendiary speech, his influence is arguably greater than ever. In this splendidly learned, astute and provocative study, Paul Corthorn invites us to look more closely at what Powell said and believed. With scrupulous care and attention to detail, he examines the roots and legacy of Powell's ideas, both placing him in his historical context and exploring his afterlives in British politics. Mercifully free from academic jargon and armchair moralising, this is a gripping and colourful read and a model of historical scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Corthorn, Paul (Reader in Modern British History Corthorn, Corthorn Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780198747154
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874715-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, British & Irish history, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Migration, immigration and emigration, History and Archaeology, Biography: historical, political and military, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General