In this new volume, Peter Hennessy brings together selected journalism, unpublished lectures and new writing alongside personal recollections and reflections on his time observing post-war Britain, how it is governed and those who do the governing. ...Daugiau...
Does the United Kingdoms constitution sufficiently protect its democracy from a rogue prime minister? In light of the resurgence of the far Right across Europe and some of the rhetoric of the 2024 General Election, which carried whiff...Daugiau...
In The Kingfishers Wings contemporary historians Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick trace the constitutional developments and tensions that have beset the UK since the 2014 Scottish referendum, an audit of the past 10 years as they call it....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368852)
Renowned historian Peter Hennessy illustrious career spans post-war to post-Brexit Britain, and here he gives a wealth of anecdote and reflection from this most astute observer of Westminster and the establishment....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Nov-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368883)
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 the most turbulent and disruptive years experienced by Britain in peacetime. Land...Daugiau...
The duty of care which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter...Daugiau...
A reflection on the state of democracy and observance of the British constitution in the United Kingdom. In The Bonfire of the Decencies, Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick use Boris Johnsons tenure as prime minister to argue that...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Mar-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241491942)
The duty of care which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, P...Daugiau...
From the celebrated author of Never Again and Having It So Good, a wonderfully vivid new history of Britain in the early 1960sHarold Macmillan famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and th...Daugiau...
On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK&;s governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringin...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Sep-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9781846141102)
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Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessys magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society; its relat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jul-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781912208579)
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Accompanying the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 program, Reflections features interviews with twelve of Britains most influential political figures from the last twenty years. Presented by Peter Hennessy, one of the UKs most renowned historians,...Daugiau...
The centerpiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views fr...Daugiau...
The centerpiece of this vivid memoir by the former British Ambassador in Germany and France is Germanys 1990 unification—the culmination of years of work by him and his colleagues. He describes living in Moscow in the Cuba crisis, why...Daugiau...
Claire Foster-Gilbert, Peter Hennessy, The Dean of Westminster, Stephen Lamport, William Hague, Mary McAleese, John Hall, Vernon White, Rowan Williams, Andrew Tremlett...
Drawn from lectures given at Westminster Abbey Institute, this volume brings together 13 essays and dialogues on moral aspects of public service: the good that is public servants purpose, what it means to serve, the vocation of public service, a...Daugiau...
The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britains armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. This title reveals the hist...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781910376485)
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The historian, wrote E. L. Doctorow, will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art of the interviewer, a craft at once sensiti...Daugiau...
Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilsons birth, Ben Pimlotts classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britains most controversial post-war statesmen....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Oct-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9781846145803)
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In 1990 the Cold War ended - but not for the Submarine Service. Since June 1969, it has been the last line of national defence, with the awesome responsibility of carrying Britains nuclear deterrent. From Polaris to Trident - and now Successor, th...Daugiau...
