Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Being Progressive -- Politics -- Temporality -- Consequences -- Methods and Approach -- Structure -- … By Any Other Name? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Newspapers, Periodicals and News Sites -- Online Archives -- Manifestos and Pamphlets -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 2: Two Natural and Inevitable Parties? -- Progress Itself -- Progress and Politics -- Time and Space -- The Developmental Self -- Two Parties -- Liberty and Property -- Progressive Conservatism -- Tory Democracy -- Conservative Socialism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Online Archives -- Speeches, Lectures and Talks -- Manifestos and Pamphlets -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 3: Municipal Enterprise: Contesting the Liberal Tradition -- Municipal Beginnings -- Active Municipalism -- Language in Context -- Liberals and Socialists -- Wise Government -- Commerce and Enterprise -- New Alliances -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Online Archives -- Speeches, Lectures and Talks -- Manifestos and Pamphlets -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 4: The Pageant of Parliament: Politics in the Time of Modernism -- The Popular Front -- The Pageant of Parliament -- Getting Things Done -- National Government -- The Critique of Party -- The Extra-Parliamentary Left -- Entering the Narrative -- The Race of Progress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Online Archives -- Websites -- Films -- Speeches, Lectures and Talks -- Manifestos and Pamphlets -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Unpublished Papers and Theses -- Chapter 5: Puzzled People: Making Sense of Modernity.

The Whirr of Progress -- Progressive People -- Self-Development -- Can Britain Make It? -- Left or Right? -- 'Over There' -- Trendy Liberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Online Archives -- Films -- Speeches, Lectures and Talks -- Manifestos and Pamphlets -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Unpublished Papers and Theses -- Chapter 6: Party Games: Realignments and Revisionism -- The Affluent Society -- Realignments -- Wooing the Liberals -- 'Red' Liberalism -- Historical Revisionism -- Alliance -- History De-railed -- Progressive Rock -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Online Archives -- Speeches, Lectures and Talks -- Manifestos and Pamphlets -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Change: Modernisation and Its Discontents -- Beyond Left and Right -- Unceasing Modernisation -- The Progressive Conservatism Project -- New Progressives -- Rethinking Labour -- Rage Against the Establishment -- The Regressive Left -- Wasted Effort?90 -- No Future? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Newspapers, Periodicals and News Sites -- Online Archives -- Websites -- Speeches, Lectures and Talks -- Manifestos and Pamphlets -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Unpublished Papers and Theses -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Consequences of Progressive Thinking -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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