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“A good Labour man” and the end of reformism - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/call-j10.shtml
Article By Ann Talbot.

BBC On This Day: 'No chaos here' declares Callaghan - http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/10/newsid_2518000/2518957.stm
The Prime Minister, James Callaghan, flies back into strike-torn Britain denying allegations the country is in chaos, 10 January, 1979.

BBC On This Day: Callaghan is new prime minister - http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/5/newsid_4074000/4074428.stm
James Callaghan wins the Labour leadership contest and takes over at Number 10 Downing Street, 5 April, 1976.

BBC On This Day: Early election as Callaghan defeated - http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/28/newsid_2531000/2531007.stm
Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a parliamentary vote of confidence by a minority of one - forcing him to call an early general election, 28 March, 1979.

InfoBritain: James Callaghan - http://www.infobritain.co.uk/James_Callaghan.htm
Biographic article.

Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - James Callaghan - http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=601
Lecture by Professor the Lord (Kenneth) Morgan with response by Professor Peter Hennessy. Full text, audio and video files.

The Atlantic: The Chap on Duty - http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200506/steyn
Obituary by Mark Steyn.

The Guardian: I'll fix economy and beat the Tories, James Callaghan wrote – then came the winter of discontent - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/30/archives-callaghan-labour-memo-1978
Description of The "Jim'll Fix it" note, which shows Callaghan's unfounded optimism in 1978.

The Guardian: James Callaghan considered using troops in oil tanker dispute - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/30/james-callaghan-crisis-winter-1978
Papers released from the National Archive add interesting details to the history of The Winter of Discontent.

The Guardian: Lord Callaghan - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/mar/28/guardianobituaries.politics
Obituary written by David McKie.

The Labour History Group: James Callaghan - http://www.labourhistory.org.uk/?p=22
Labour Biographies (extracts from the Dictionary of Labour Biography, Greg Rosen (ed), (Politicos Publishing 2001)

WalesOnline: Official papers show why James Callaghan failed to call an early election in 1978 - http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/12/30/official-papers-show-why-james-callaghan-failed-to-call-an-early-election-in-1978-91466-22571675/
Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan abandoned plans for a snap general election out of a "malicious" delight in confounding the Tories, according to official papers made public after 30 years in 2008.

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