British General Election Campaigns & British By Elections: Buy Together and Save £5

Will be despatched after 18 September, the publication date for British By Elections. Buy together and save £5.

Both books will be signed by the editor, Iain Dale

88 essays by 87 different politicians, historians, academics and journalists about 85 of the most important by-elections since thje John Wilkes by-election of 1769, right up to Runcorn in May 2025.

Here is the list of by-elections featured together with the name of the person who is writing the essay...

Middlesex 1769 Robin Eagles
Co Clare 1828 Richard Gaunt
Preston 1830 Gordon Pentland
Manchester Withington 1867 Peter Kellner
Colchester 1870 Luke Blaxill
Northampton 1884 Simon Barrow
Mid Lanark 1888 Baroness Pauiine Bryan
Oldham 1899 Alex Puffette
Barnard Castle 1903 David Laws
Norwich 1904 Duncan Brack
Colne Valley 1907 Gerard Hetherington
Manchester NW 1908 Pippa Caterall
North East Derbyshire 1914 Gordon Marsden
Merthyr Tydfil 1915 Sir Vernon Bogdanor
Clare East 1917 Richard Grayson
Spen Valley 1919 Roger Gough
Paisley 1920 Hugh Gault
Woolwich East 1921 Nan Sloane
Cardiganshire 1921 Russell Deacon
Newport 1922 Stephen Williams
Mitcham 1923 Lewis Baston
Westminster Abbey 1924 Lord Lexden
Smethwick 1926 James Bird
Westminster St George's 1931 Sir Robert Buckland
Fulham East 1933 T G Otte
Oxford 1938 Simon Heffer
Kinross & West Perthshire 1938 Amy Gray
Bridgwater 1938 Alun Evans
Maldon 1942 Will Timmins
West Derbyshire James Heale
Motherwell & Wishaw 1945 Richard Finlay
Bournemouth 1945 David Hencke
Carmarthen 1957 Roger Awan-Scully
Torrington 1958 Michael McManus
Orpington 1962 Lord Norton
Bristol Souh East 1963 Lee Evans
Kinross & West Perthshire 1963 Andrew Holt
Stratford upon Avon 1963 Scarlett Maguire
Roxburgh, Selkirk & Peebles 1965 Sir Peter Riddell
Leyton 1965 Richard Johnson
Carmarthen 1966 Sam Blaxland
Kingston upon Hull North 1966 Nick Thomas-Symonds
Hamilton 1967 Mike Russell
Sutton & Cheam 1972 Connor Hand
Rochdale 1972 Alistair Burt
Lincoln 1973 Julia Langdon
Govan 1973 Gerry Hassan
Woolwich West 1975 Amber Whapshott
Walsall N 1976 John Barnes
Workington 1976 Michael Mullaney
Ashfield` 1977 Robert Waller
Grimsby 1977 John Bowers
Garscadden 1978 Mark Peel
Liverpiool Edge Hill 1979 Lord Chris Rennard
Fermanagh & South Tyrone x2 1981 Toby Harnden
Crosby 1981 Matthew Cole
Warrington 1981 Paul Linford
Glasgow Hillhead 1982 Andrew Marr
Bermondsey 1983 Sir John Curtice
Darlington 1983 Francis Beckett
Chesterfield 1984 Greg Rosen
Greenwich 1986 Nigel Fletcher
Govan 1988 Gerry Hassan
Eastbourne 1990 Tim Bale
Eastleigh 1993 Mark Garnett
Christchurch 1993 Michael Crick
Newbury 1993 Elinor Goodman
Dudley W 1994 Lucia Henwood
Winchester 1997 Jack Brown
South Antrim 2000 Richard Bullick
Brent East 2003 Joe Pike
Haltemprice & Howden 2008 Robert Evans
Glasgow East 2008 Lesley Orr
Crewe & Nantwich 2008 Lord Stephen Parkinson
Clacton 2014 Tim Shipman
Richmond Park 2016 Aggie Chambre
Batley & Spen 2016 Mathew Hulbert
Copeland 2017 Chris Whiteside
Hartlepool 2021 Alia Middleton
Batley & Spen 2021 Emma Burnell
Chesham & Amersham 2021 Rosie Campbell
North Shropshire 2021 Corey Froggatt
Southend West 2022 Iain Dale
Mid Bedfordshire 2023 Henry Riley
Selby & Ainsty 2023 Edward Young
Rutherglen 2023 Mark McGeoghegan
Rochdale 2024 Sunder Katwala
Runcorn - 2025 - Harry Horton

This remarkable book, edited by one of the UK’s leading political commentators, takes us on a deep dive through nearly 200 years of British political history in its most dramatic expression: the general election.

The British general election is the linchpin of our liberal democracy, and its results are often fundamental to how we live.

From the general election of 1830, at which electoral reform was the centrepiece issue, to the so-called Brexit election of 2019, Iain Dale delivers a showcase of all fifty general elections, with an essay for each written by key political writers including John Curtice, Julia Langdon, Simon Heffer, Peter Snow, Sue Cameron, Vernon Bogdanor, Adam Boulton and many others.

1830 Gordon Pentland
1831 Connor Hand
1832 Alun Evans
1835 Ed Young
1837 Nan Sloan
1841 Richard Gaunt
1847 David Walsh
1852 Nigel Fletcher
1857 Alex Noonan
1859 Matthew Cole
1865 Charles Pitt
1868 Ian Cawood
1874 Sir Robert Buckland MP
1880 Kathryn Rix
1885 Luke Blaxill
1886 Robert Saunders
1892 Leo McKinstry
1895 Pippa Catterall
1900 Mark Fox
1906 Duncan Brack
1910 David Laws
1910 David Laws
1918 Damian Collins MP
1922 Jack Brown
1923 Alistair Lexden
1924 Robert Waller
1929 Rosie Campbell
1931 Andrew Thorpe
1935 John Barnes
1945 Julia Langdon
1950 Sue Cameron
1951 Sir Vernon Bogdanor
1955 Philip Norton
1959 Iain Dale
1964 Nick Thomas-Symonds
1966 Peter Kellner
1970 Michael Crick
1974 Lewis Baston
1974 Michael McManus
1979 Simon Heffer
1983 Peter Snow
1987 Sir Simon Burns
1992 Sir Peter Riddell
1997 Sir John Curtice
2001 Alia Middleton
2005 Robert Ford
2010 Adam Boulton
2015 Philip Cowley
2017 Stephen Parkinson
2019 Tim Bale