Michael Young and the Labour Party

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes [1] Paul Addison, Churchill on the Home Front, 1900–1955 (London: Cape, 1992), p. 434. [2] He delivered this on 11 September 2000. [3] Michael Young to Peter Hennessy, 3 October 2000. [4] ‘Tony Blair's first keynote speech of the campaign’, Labour Party, 13 May 2001. [5] Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870–2033; An Essay on Education and Equality (London: Thomas and Hudson, 1958; Penguin edition, 1961). [6] Conversation with Michael Young, 24 March 1994. [7] Conversation with Michael Young, 24 March 1994. [8] Michael Young, ‘Small Man, Big World: A discussion of socialist democracy’, Towards Tomorrow, No.4 (Labour Party, 1948). [9] Michael Young, ‘Small Man, Big World: A discussion of socialist democracy’, Towards Tomorrow, No.4 (Labour Party, 1948). [10] This 1951 paper exists only in typescript form. For its contents see Asa Briggs, Michael Young, Social Entrepreneur (London: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 83, 87, 89, 101, 115, 155 and 290. [11] Michael Young, The Chipped White Cups of Dover: A Discussion of the Possibility of a New Progressive Party (London: Unit 2, 1960). [12] For this relationship see Susan Crosland, Tony Crosland (London: Cape, 1982), pp. 46, 54 and 298; Briggs, Michael Young, pp. 21, 98–9, 104, 120, 164–5, 189–90, 203–5, 221–27, 23, 247–9, 290, 296. [13] Private information. [14] Conversation with Michael Young, 24 March 1994. [15] Private information. [16] Fernand Braudel, On History (London: Weidenfeld, 1980), pp. 25–55. [17] Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations (Basingstoke: Penguin edn., 1995), p. xxxvii. [18] Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy, p. 24; Braudel, On History, pp. 64–82. [19] Braudel, A History of Civilizations, p. xxxviii. [20] Michael Shelden, Orwell, The Authorised Biography (London: Heinemann, 1991), p. 429. Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter HennessyPeter Hennessy is the Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London