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He illuminates, often for the first time, precise Prime Ministerial attitudes toward, and authority over, nuclear weapons policy, the planning and wag...
The Job and Its Holders Since 1945
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Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution
A reflection on the state of democracy and observance of the British constitution in the United Kingdom. In The Bonfire of the Decencies, Peter Hennes...
Britain 1945-51
This is the first volume of a history of Britain from 1945 to the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. This book covers the years from 1945 to 1951 - ...
Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to enco...
Britain in the Fifties
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary deca...
Britain, 1945-1951
"Authoritative, powerfully engaging, and highly readable - winner of England's most prestigious prize for nonfiction, the NCR Award - Never Again is t...
Whitehall and the Cold War
As Cold War Britain came under the terrifying shadow of nuclear destruction, secret government plans were underway to ensure the survival of a chosen ...
Britain Before and After Covid
One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain The 'duty of care' whi...
Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010
This updated edition of The Secret State revises Hennessy's picture of the Soviet threat that was presented to ministers from the last days of the Sec...
The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945
'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and...
Writing the History of One's Own Timed
In Distilling the Frenzy, the UK's leading contemporary historian examines the special considerations that apply to writing the history of one's own t...
Unearthing the British Constitution
Britain in the Early Sixties
Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy 'By far the best study of early Sixties Br...
Power, Politics and the Quality of Government in Postwar Britain
Throughout Britain, Civil Servants are exposed to public scrutiny today in unprecedented ways. What does it mean that the political neutrality of the ...
Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilsonโs birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to...
Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs cha...
"Cabinets and the Bomb publishes declassified Cabinet and Cabinet Committee papers that reveal the private debates between prime ministers, senior min...
A Life in Writing
New and selected writings by one of the United Kingdomโs leading contemporary historians. As one of Britainโs foremost constitutional experts and ...
Conversations with Politicians
On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UKโs ...
โThe historian,โ wrote E. L. Doctorow, โwill tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.โ This book sees Peter Henne...
Conversations with Politicians Volume II
Accompanying the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 program, Reflections features interviews with twelve of Britainโs most influential political figures from the...
Britian 1945 - 1951
Britain 2021โ22
A compelling account of the transformative changes Britain is facing today, exploring how we can build a post-COVID society. 2021 and 2022 were two of...
An Inquiry Into the British Establishment
Thoughts on the Union before and after the Scottish Independence Referendum
Despite the โNoโ vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, the issue of potential Scottish secession from the United Kingdom...
Inside the Hidden World of the News Manipulators
Kritische analyse van de wijze waarop achtereenvolgende Britse premiers gebruik maakten en maken van subtiele mediamanipulatie....
British Governments and Strikebreaking Since 1919
Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA) Held in Canberra, ACT on November 26 to 29, 1995
These proceedings cover a diverse range of topics about the pig industry: pig behaviour and housing, nutrient digestibility, regulation of growth, pig...
A Question of Command and Control? : a Political Commentary
Reflections on the British Premiership Since 1945
Architecture Since the War