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English Rebel Songs 1381-1914 Part 1.
The Cutty Wren, (0:52)The Diggers Song, (4:20)Colliers March, (6:50)The Triumph Of General Ludd, (9:52)Chartist Anthem, (11:40)Song Of The Times.

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Broadcast by the Labour party 1956

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A short film about Emily Wilding Davison giving her life at the 1913 Derby for the Suffragette cause. The film is set to The Eurthymics - Sisters are doin' it for themselves

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​Michael Foot speaks about his experiences in the post-war Labour party, of which he was the Leader between 1980 & 1983.

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BBC documentary (2008): Serving over one and a half million patients and their families every day, the NHS is the biggest service of its kind in the world. It is universally regarded as a national treasure - the most remarkable achievement of post war Britain.

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To the surprise of many, the 1945 general election led to the return of Britain's first Labour majority government. Labour's 1945 election manifesto declared that it was a socialist party and proud of it. The Attlee government created the modern welfare state and the National Health Service, and nationalized the public utilities. It sought to construct a New Jerusalem, a socialist commonwealth. Why did it not succeed in doing so?

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