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Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton
Bleaney, Michael. The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics: An Investigation of its Contribution to Capitalist Development. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1985. 
Fitzgibbons, Athol. Keynes's Vision: A New Political Economy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. 
Fletcher, Gordon A. The Keynesian Revolution and its Critics. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1987. 
Harrod, Roy. John Maynard Keynes: Critical Assessments. London: Routledge, 1994. 
Harrod, Roy. Life of John Maynard Keynes. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1982. Originally published in 1951.
Hutton, Will. The Revolution that Never Was: An Assessment of Keynesian Economics. London: Longman, 1986. 
Johnson, Elizabeth. The Shadow of Keynes: Understanding Keynes, Cambridge and Keynesian Economics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1978. 
Keynes, John Maynard. Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. for the Royal Economic Society, 1971-1979. 
Klein, Lawrence R. The Keynesian Revolution. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2d ed., 1980. 
Lekachman, Robert. The Age of Keynes. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1969. 
Minsky, Hyman P. John Maynard Keynes. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1976. 
Moggridge, D. E. Keynes. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2d ed., 1980. 
Patinkin, Don. Keynes' Monetary Thought: A Study of its Development. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1976. 
Skidelsky, Robert. John Maynard Keynes: a Biography. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1983. 
Stewart, Michael. Keynes and After. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1986. 
Post-War Britain
Alford, Bernard W. British Economic Performance 1945-75. London: Macmillan, 1988. Valuable brief survey.
Barnett, Correlli. The Audit of War: The Illusion and the Reality of Great Britain as a Great Nation. London: Pan, 1986. Influential view from the Right.
Cairncross, Alec. The British Economy Since 1945. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Lucid survey by a former government advisor.
Crafts, N. F. R., and Woodward, N. W. C., eds. The British Economy Since 1945. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Important collection of essays that draw on recent economic theories.
Dow, J. C. R. The Management of the British Economy 1945-60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964. Standard account.
Floud, R. C., and McLoskey, D. N., eds. The Economic History of Britain Since 1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2d ed., 1994. Volume 3. Major "new economic history" of the period.
Ford, Boris, ed. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Volume 9: Since the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 
Gourvish, J. R., and O'Day, A., eds. Britain Since 1945. London: Macmillan, 1991. Useful collection of essays, including one by J. Harrison on welfare.
Hewison, Robert. In Anger: Culture in the Cold War, 1945-60. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. Lively and perceptive account.
Louis, Roger W., and Owen, Roger, eds. Suez 1956: The Crisis and its Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Valuable, lucid essays.
Matwick, Arthur. British Society Since 1945. Harmonsdworth: Penguin, 2d ed., 1991. Clear, easy to read survey.
Mitchell, B. R. British Historical Statistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Best source for major statistics.
Morgan, Kenneth, O. The People's Peace: British History 1945-1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Excellent broad history.
Pollard, Sidney. The Development of the British Economy 1914-1990. London: Edward Arnold, 4th ed., 1992. Very useful detailed survey.
Tiratsoo, Nick, ed. The Attlee Years. London: Pinter, 1991. Revisionist essays.
Wrigley, Chris, ed. British Trade Unions 1945-1995. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Survey and documents.
Socialism
Anderson, Perry, and Camiller, Patrick (eds.). Mapping the West European Left. London: Verso, 1994. Stocktaking of current political state in Western Europe.
Eley, Geoffrey. Forging Democracy: the History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 
Glyn, Andrew (ed.). Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: the Left and economic policy since 1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 
Lichtheim, George. A Short History of Socialism. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson; Fontana, Generously-scaled standard history, with extensive bibliography.
Padgett, Stephen, and Paterson, William E. A History of Social Democracy in Postwar Europe. London: Longman, 1991. Charts post-war changes.
Sassoon, Donald. One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996. Highly regarded new study.
Welfare State
Abel-Smith, Brian. The National Health Service: The First Thirty Years. London: HMSO, 1978. 
Black, Sir Douglas. The Black Report in Inequalities in Health. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992. Indicates link between poverty and poor health.
Brown, John. The British Welfare State: A Critical History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Incisive, brief introduction.
Digby, Anne. British Welfare Policy: Workhouse to Workfare. London: Faber, 1989. Incisive brief assessment with international dimensions.
Foot, Michael. Aneurin Bevan. Vol 1: 1879-1945, Vol 2: 1945-1960. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1962. 
Glennaster, Howard. British Social Policy Since 1945. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. 
Glyn, A., and Miliband, D., eds. Paying for Inequality: The Economic Cost of Social Injustice. London: Macmillan, 1991. The economic case for equality.
Gourvish, T., and O'Day, A., eds. Britain since 1945. London: Macmillan, 1991. Valuable collection of essays.
Harris, J. William Beveridge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2d ed., 1997. Revised version of excellent biography.
Hill, M. The Welfare State in Britain: A Political History Since 1945. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Useful introduction.
Hills, J., ed. The State of Welfare: The Welfare State in Britain Since 1974. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Important, wide-ranging essays.
Lowe, Rodney. The Welfare State in Britain Since 1945. London: Macmillan, 1993. The best scholarly introduction.
Lowe, Roy. Education in the Post-War Years: A Social History. London: Routledge, 1988. Valuable survey of 1945-1964.
Morgan, Kenneth O. The People's Peace: British History 1945-1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Excellent history of the period.
Raison, Timothy. The Tories and the Welfare State. London: Macmillan, 1990. History by an "insider".
Timmins, Nicholas. The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Excellent, readable account.
Titmuss, Richard. Essays on the Welfare State. London: Allen and Unwin, 1958. A classic text.
Webster, Charles. The National Health Service since the War. Vol 1: Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service Before 1957. London: HMSO, 1998. Excellent offical history.
Webster, Charles. The National Health Service since the War. Vol 2: The Government and Health Care: The National Service 1958-1979. London: HMSO, 1996. 

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