Episode 4 - The Foundation of the Labour Party

A People's History with John McDonnell

Explore the rise of the trade union movement and eventual foundation of the Labour Party in 1900, with John McDonnell and three expert historians and activists: Matthew Worley, Simon Hannah and Baroness Pauline Bryan.

• Matthew Worley is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading, where he focuses on twentieth-century British culture and politics, with a particular interest in the British labour movement.
• Simon Hannah is a writer, labour activist and trade unionist, and the author of “A Party with Socialists in It - A History of the Labour Left”, published by Pluto Press.
• Baroness Pauline Bryan is a Scottish writer and socialist campaigner. She is part of the Red Paper Collective and a founding member of both the Keir Hardie Society and the Campaign for Socialism.