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Shorter Reviews JOHN MARRIOTT, The Culture of Labourism: The East The book falls short in one other important aspect, End Between the Wars. Edinburgh University Press, knowledge of the area. A reader might suspect that November 1991. ix+ 198 pages, 16 tables and illustra- Marriott knows the area well but in reality a lack of tions, appendix, references, index. £12.95 detailed knowledge is demonstrated, while sub- (paperback) . consciously West Ham of the 1920s may have been compared with Ealing of the 1970s. The title of this book is misleading - the work is The outcome is that the book does not do justice to neither about the East End nor does it cover the inter- West Ham, leading West Hammers of the day, the war years. It is primarily about the politics of West East End, nor even the inter-war period. It is based Ham, seen by many as not part of the East End. It on poor research, unquestioned acceptance of evidence, and is reliant on a sketchily defined con- covers the run up to the Labour Party taking undis- puted control in 1919, and the period of the next ten ceptual basis. From this it follows that it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present Taylor & Francis

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JOHN MARRIOTT, The Culture of Labourism: The East The book falls short in one other important aspect, End Between the Wars. Edinburgh University Press, knowledge of the area. A reader might suspect that November 1991. ix+ 198 pages, 16 tables and illustra- Marriott knows the area well but in reality a lack of tions, appendix, references, index. £12.95 detailed knowledge is demonstrated, while sub- (paperback) . consciously West Ham of the 1920s may have been compared with Ealing of the 1970s. The title of this book is misleading - the work is The outcome is that the book does not do justice to neither about the East End nor does it cover the inter- West Ham, leading West Hammers of the day, the war years. It is primarily about the politics of West East End, nor even the inter-war period. It is based Ham, seen by many as not part of the East End. It on poor research, unquestioned acceptance of evidence, and is reliant on a sketchily defined con- covers the run up to the Labour Party taking undis- puted control in 1919, and the period of the next ten ceptual basis. From this it follows that it

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 1992 Maney Publishing
ISSN
1749-6322
eISSN
0305-8034
DOI
10.1179/ldn.1992.17.1.91
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Abstract

JOHN MARRIOTT, The Culture of Labourism: The East The book falls short in one other important aspect, End Between the Wars. Edinburgh University Press, knowledge of the area. A reader might suspect that November 1991. ix+ 198 pages, 16 tables and illustra- Marriott knows the area well but in reality a lack of tions, appendix, references, index. £12.95 detailed knowledge is demonstrated, while sub- (paperback) . consciously West Ham of the 1920s may have been compared with Ealing of the 1970s. The title of this book is misleading - the work is The outcome is that the book does not do justice to neither about the East End nor does it cover the inter- West Ham, leading West Hammers of the day, the war years. It is primarily about the politics of West East End, nor even the inter-war period. It is based Ham, seen by many as not part of the East End. It on poor research, unquestioned acceptance of evidence, and is reliant on a sketchily defined con- covers the run up to the Labour Party taking undis- puted control in 1919, and the period of the next ten ceptual basis. From this it follows that it

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The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and PresentTaylor & Francis

Published: May 1, 1992

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