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Richard Jobson
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Email: rj3870@bristol.ac.uk
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Research Interests
My PhD research focuses on the impact of nostalgia on the political trajectory of the post-war Labour Party. It assesses the extent to which nostalgia shaped the modernisation process within the party. I am also interested in contemporary Labour Party developments.
Teaching
- Special Topic: Keeping the Red Flag Flying?: Labour Party Thought and Practice, 1945-1983.
Publications
R. Jobson and M. Wickham-Jones, 'Reinventing the Block Vote? Trade Unions and the 2010 Labour Party Leadership Election', British Politics, 6 (3), (Basingstoke: Macmillan, September 2011), 317-344.
R. Jobson and M. Wickham-Jones, 'Gripped by the Past: Nostalgia and the 2010 Labour Party Leadership Contest', British Politics, 5 (4), (Basingstoke: Macmillan, December 2010), 525-548.
Book Reviews:
Review of: Paul J. Deveney, Callaghan's Journey to Downing Street (Palgrave, 2010) in History, 96 (2011), 518-519.