%0 Journal Article %A Wring, Dominic %D 2006 %T Images of Labour: the progression and politics of party campaigning in Britain %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Images_of_Labour_the_progression_and_politics_of_party_campaigning_in_Britain/9474443 %2 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/17098946 %K Political marketing %K British elections %K Labour Party %K Historical campaigning %K Party organisation %K Campaign professionals %K Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified %K Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified %X This paper looks at the continuities and changes in the nature of election campaigns in Britain since 1900 by focusing on the way campaigning has changed and become more professional and marketing driven. The piece discusses the ramifications of these developments in relation to the Labour party's ideological response to mass communication and the role now played by external media in the internal affairs of this organisation. The paper also seeks to assess how campaigns have historically developed in a country with an almost continuous, century long cycle of elections. %I Loughborough University