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