Anne McElvoy visits New Lanark, the early 19th-century Scottish mill village run by Robert Owen, to find out how it became the seedbed for his pioneering vision of socialism. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores the rise and fall of Chartism in the mid-19th century. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores how Victorian labourers came together to find local solutions to their dire working conditions. Show more

Anne McElvoy retraces William Morris's steps from wallpaper designer to revolutionary. Show more

Anne traces how Keir Hardie, an ex-Liberal trade unionist, became leader of Britain's socialist Parliamentary party, in concert with ethical socialist Ramsay MacDonald. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces the emergence of British socialism, from utopian visions of transformation to the arrival of Labour MPs in Parliament in 1906. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the Fabian Society on British socialism. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the Fabian Society on British socialism. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces the battle for British socialism's soul amid the crises of the 1930s - between trade union leader Ernest Bevin and revolutionary barrister Sir Stafford Cripps. Show more

In 1945, socialists formed a majority government in Britain for the first time. Anne McElvoy follows Ellen Wilkinson from the Communist Party to the Jarrow March to the cabinet. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement and its impact on the story of British socialism. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores how Labour MP Tony Benn turned from planning to populism amid the crises of the 1970s, and what this tells us about the competing strands of British socialism. Show more