(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368869)
New and selected writings by one of the United Kingdoms leading contemporary historians.As one of Britain s foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368890)
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 of Shame and Glory...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368722)
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 Johnson s tenure as prime minister to argue that mechanisms for the uph...Loe edasi...
One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe duty of care which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain hi...Loe edasi...
Brought to you by Penguin. 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 D...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781912208999)
On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UKs governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringing together transc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781912208586)
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, each interv...Loe edasi...
Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessys celebrated Post-War TrilogyBy far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and important The Times, Books of the Year Harold Macmillan...Loe edasi...
The centrepiece 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 from th...Loe edasi...
Claire Foster-Gilbert, Peter Hennessy, The Dean of Westminster, Stephen Lamport, William Hague, Mary McAleese, John Hall, Vernon White, Rowan Williams, Andrew Tremlett...
Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster...Loe edasi...
Claire Foster-Gilbert, Peter Hennessy, The Dean of Westminster, Stephen Lamport, William Hague, Mary McAleese, John Hall, Vernon White, Rowan Williams, Andrew Tremlett...
Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2016, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781910376492)
"e;The historian,"e; wrote E. L. Doctorow, "e;will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like."e; This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art of the interviewer, a cr...Loe edasi...
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.Harold Wilso...Loe edasi...
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. Written with unprecedented...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2015, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781910376232)
Despite the "e;No"e; vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, the issue of potential Scottish secession from the United Kingdom has likely only just begun. The Kingdom to Come is the first book-length look at the conseq...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2015, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781908323781)
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 encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly personal book, Hennessy examines the rise of merit...Loe edasi...
In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950. Weaving together a human and family story, she combines her fathers work with her own experience as...Loe edasi...
This updated edition of The Secret State revises Hennessys 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 th...Loe edasi...
In Distilling the Frenzy, the UKs leading contemporary historian examines the special considerations that apply to writing the history of ones own times, and revisits the grand themes running through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He loo...Loe edasi...
The gathering of information by the Intelligence Services is now an issue of major importance in the modern world. But what are the ethical responsibilities of these bodies? How is that intelligence collected, assessed and used? What is the impact...Loe edasi...
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessys Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence. The 1950s was the decade in which Roger...Loe edasi...
The first volume of Hennessys postwar history of Britain concerns an age dominated by the shadow of war. With the beginnings of the Cold War, the foundations of the new Europe and the granting of independence of former colonies, Britain was forced t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-1999, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Dundurn Group Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781554881178)
A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatters Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors: "e;...( s...Loe edasi...
