Nathan Yeowell is Executive Director of Progressive Britain - the platform for policymaking, political education and imaginative thinking to rebuild Labour and the Nation. Prior to this, he was Head of Policy and External Affairs at the social sector think-tank New Philanthropy Capital and Head of the Labour Group Office at the Local Government Association.

Will be promoted by a range of Labour MPs and the Progress think-tank.

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
ForewordRachel Reeves
Part I
1. Introduction: Rethinking Labour's past - Nathan Yeowell
2. The Disenchantment of the Labour Party: Socialism, Liberalism and Progressive History - Ben Jackson
Part II
3. 'A party not unlike the Democrats': Labour, the Left, and encounters in America from the New Deal to the New Frontier - Richard Carr
4. The Shifting Significance of 'The Spirit of '45' - Steven Fielding
5. The Fall and Rise of Harold Wilson - Glen O'Hara
6. Crosland in the seventies: revisionist social democracy in a cold climate - Patrick Diamond
Part III
7. Municipal socialism and municipal feminism: women and local Labour politics from the 1900s to the 1980s - Krista Cowman
8. Social democracy, the decline of community, and community politics in post-war Britain - Nick Garland
9. Linking up Labour: place, community and buses in 1980s Sheffield - Daisy Payling
10. Race and the left, from protest to power? The story of Black Sections - Robin Bunce and Samara Linton
11. 'This party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing': foreign aid and Labour's ethical identity - Charlotte Lydia Riley
Part IV
12. 'What did the 1983 manifesto ever do for us?' - Colm Murphy
13. Neil Kinnock: a reassessment - Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam
14. Past, present and future: Tony Blair and the political legacy of New Labour - Andrew Hindmoor and Karl Pike
15. Renewal beyond New Labour: from the LCC to Corbynomics - George Morris, Emily Robinson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Part V
16. The Labour Party and aspiration - Jeremy Nuttall
17. Conclusion: shaping Labour's future - Nick Thomas-Symonds