Content deleted Content added
m Removed overlinked country wikilink and general fixes (task 2) |
No edit summary |
||
Line 3:
{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}
{{More citations needed|date=November 2015}}
'''Henry Mathison Pelling''' (27 August 1920 – 14 October 1997) was a British historian best known for his works on the history of the [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]]
==Life==
Pelling was born in [[Prenton]], [[The Wirral]], the son of a wealthy stockbroker. He was educated at [[Birkenhead School]] and [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he gained firsts in Part I of the Classical tripos and Part II of the Historical tripos prior to completing a PhD in 1950.<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who | surname = PELLING | othernames = Henry Mathison | id = U181069 | type = was | volume = 2018 | edition = online}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He began his career as a fellow at [[Queen's College, Oxford]], where he remained until his return to St John's in 1966.<ref name="WW"/> He was Reader in British History at [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] from 1976 to 1980, when he decided to retire from teaching; this decision also led to the termination of his college fellowship, much to his chagrin, and it was only after a great deal of protest that he was reinstated (an interregnum he referred to thereafter as ''socius ejectus'', in imitation of [[Thomas Baker (antiquarian)|Thomas Baker]]).<ref>[[Peter Clarke (historian)|Clarke, Peter]], 'Obituary: A life of Labour and capital: Henry Pelling', ''The Guardian'', 21 October 1997.</ref><ref>[https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/baker.htm 'Thomas Baker (1656-1740)']. ''St John's College, Cambridge''. Retrieved 4 January 2023.</ref> Pelling's collection of British left-wing political pamphlets is held at [[Senate House, London|Senate House Library]], while his papers are lodged with St John's College.
==Publications==
Pelling's main contributions to the study of the Labour Party were as follows:
*''The Origins of the Labour Party'' (1954) and
*''A Short History of the Labour Party'' (1961) (later editions co-written with Alastair J. Reid)
He was also a pioneer of the serious study of twentieth-century electoral and party politics, and wrote such other works as:
{{Expand list|date=August 2008}}▼
*''Modern Britain 1885-1955''
*''Social Geography of British Elections: 1885-1910''
*''Winston Churchill''
*''Britain and the Marshall Plan''
*''American Labor''
*''A History of British Trade Unionism, London, 1963''
Line 20 ⟶ 27:
*''Britain and the Second World War''
*''The Labour Governments 1945-51''
▲{{Expand list|date=August 2008}}
==References==
| |||