Migration on the Ballot?
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978-0-367-76661-0 (ISBN)
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The 1964 election was supposed to be a success for Labour leader Harold Wilson. Yet while his party returned to power after thirteen years in opposition, the defeat of shadow cabinet minister Patrick Gordon Walker by the Conservative Peter Griffiths at Smethwick overshadowed Labour’s victory. In a town affected by economic, urban, and demographic change, Griffiths ran a campaign most remembered for its anti-migrant rhetoric. A ‘safe’ Labour seat in the West Midlands not only voted Conservative, but also became a metonym for ‘racial politics’, influencing national debates about migration and impacting the new Labour Government’s agenda. However, despite its continued notoriety, the campaign remains under-interrogated, with scholarly attention notable either for its obsolescence or brevity. This study seeks to understand how far these Conservative appeals actually determined the outcome, or whether a more complicated story lays beneath.
This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and those interested in modern British political history, elections and their outcomes.
Marc Collinson is Lecturer in Political History at Bangor University. His research focuses on elections, place, and governance in post-war British politics. Recent publications have explored Eton and Slough in the 1964 election and the 1965 Leyton by-election (both 2024).
Introduction 1. ‘Smethwick…will forever be changing’: Place, continuity, and change in a Black Country town 2. Smethwick’s changing electorate: Municipal policies, demographic movement, and changing boundaries 3. Cultivating local xenophobia: Migration, activism, and Smethwick politics before 1964 4. The Lie of the Land: Smethwick and the political dynamics of the West Midlands 5. Cyphers or Agents?: Smethwick Candidates in the ‘three-way fight’ of 1964 6. Political momentum?: Reconsidering 1964, Smethwick’s year of elections 7. A Smethwick ‘effect’? Impacts and aftermath, 1964-1974 8. Interpreting Smethwick: An intellectual history. Conclusion: Smethwick as political history
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Modern British History |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-76661-2 / 0367766612 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-76661-0 / 9780367766610 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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