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Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott; Peter Hennessy
Category: Biography
Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. Harold Wilson is one of the most enigmatic personalities of rece ...Show more
Having It So Good by Peter Hennessy
Category: History
"Having It So Good" evokes Britain emerging from the shadow of war and the privations of austerity and rationing into growing affluence. Peter Hennessy takes his readers into the front-rooms where the Coronation was watched on television, to the classrooms and now coffee bars of 1950s Britain - and also ...Show more
The Duty of Care - Britain Before and after Corona by Peter Hennessy
Category: History
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 Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before cor ...Show more
The Once Upon a Time Map Book: Take a Tour of Six Enchanted Lands by Peter Joyce (Illustrator); Barbara G. Hennessy
Category: Picture Books
Imagine that fairy tales are real and can be explored in detail with the help of maps. (Ages 6-10) Imagine that fairy tales are real and can be explored in detail with the help of maps. Imagine navigating the mysteries of Aladdin's kingdom, the dangers of the Giant's kingdom at the top of Jack's bea ...Show more
The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
Category: History
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 Second World War to the 1960s. He maps the size and shape of the Cold War state built in response to that perceived threat, and traces the arguments succes ...Show more
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
Category: Popular History
In the 114 years since its birth, the Royal Navy Submarine Service has stretched from the North Pole to the South Atlantic, from the Far East to the Barents Sea. The United Kingdom is girdled with the infrastructure required to support this vast enterprise; and the submarines of its Trident system form ...Show more
Winds of Change - Britain in the Early Sixties by Peter Hennessy
Category: History
Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's 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 relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence policy. A ...Show more
Winds of Change - Britain in the Sixties by Peter Hennessy
Category: History
As with his acclaimed histories of British life in the two previous decades, Never Again and Having it so Good, Peter Hennessy covers the political, economic, cultural and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy. Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent ...Show more
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