“Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.”

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Postwar

2005

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2011

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Reappraisals

2008

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Thinking the Twentieth Century

2012

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Memory Chalet

2010

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