Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918: The Politics of Promises

1. Introduction - David Thackeray and Richard Toye2. Election Promises and Anti-Promises after the Great War - Luke Blaxill3. The 'Woman's Point of View': Women Parliamentary Candidates, 1918-1919 - Lisa Berry-Waite4. 'A Fighting Man to Fight for You': The Armed Forces, Ex-servicemen, and British Electoral Politics in the Aftermath of Two World Wars - Matthew Johnson5. Broken Promises and the Remaking of Political Trust: Debating Reconstruction in Britain during the Second World War - Clare Griffiths6. Fiscal Promises: Tax and Spending in British General Elections since 1964 - Aled Davies and Peter Sloman7. he Introduction of Race and Immigration in British Post-imperial Politics: The General Elections of 1964 and 1966 - Emil Sokolov8. The Electoral Promises of Winston Churchill - Richard Toye9. 'I Promise You This. I Won't Make Empty Promises'. The Election Manifestos of Margaret Thatcher - David Thackeray10. Custodians of the Manifesto: The Struggle over Labour's Electoral Platforms, 1974-1983 - Mark Wickham-Jones11. Thatcherism, the SDP and Vernacular Politics on the Isle of Sheppey, c. 1978-83 - Jon Lawrence12. The Promise of 'Liberal Democracy', c. 1981-2010 - Mike Finn13. 'We Made a Pledge, We Did Not Stick to It, and For That I am Sorry': The Liberal Democrats' 2015 General Election Campaign and the Legacy of the Tuition Fees Debacle - Judi Atkins14. The Rhetorical Lives and Afterlives of Political Pledges in British Political Speech c. 2000-2013 - James Freeman