General history
There is a lack of comprehensive, up-to-date and readable Labour histories. A. J. Davies's To Build a New Jerulsalem is about the only recent one. Older histories, like Francis Williams's Fifty Years March stop rather early, in that case 1950. The best recent books usually only cover specific periods.

The best of these include:

• Phillip Whitehead's The Writing on the Wall (late-1960s to early-1980s),
• Clive Ponting's Breach of Promise (1964-70),
• Kenneth Morgan's History of the 1945-51 Labour government,
• Martin Francis's excellent and little-known Ideas and Policies under Labour 1945-51,
• Ben Pimlott's Labour and the Left in the 1930s and
• Robert Skidelsky's Politicians and the Slump 1929-31.
• Paul Addison's The Road to 1945 is a fascinating account of the wartime coalition.
• More recently Patrick Wintour and Colin Hughes's Labour Rebuilt is one of the best accounts of the Kinnockite modernisation of Labour.