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    Land of Shame and Glory

    Peter Hennessy

    Peter Hennessy charts the turbulent years of 2021 and 2022.

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    The New Protective State: Government, Intelligence and Terrorism

    The gathering of intelligence by the Secret Services is an issue of major importance in the modern world. It was on this basis that Bush and Blair decided to go…

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    The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945

    Peter Hennessy

    Explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on unparalleled access to many of the leading figures…

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    A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid

    Peter Hennessy

    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’ which the…

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    Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties

    Peter Hennessy

    The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released Rock Around the Clock , rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous…

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    Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

    Peter Hennessy

    The third volume of Peter Hennessy’s landmark postwar history of Britain

    Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy’s magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the…

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    Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

    Peter Hennessy

    The third volume of Peter Hennessy’s landmark postwar history of Britain

    Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy’s magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the…

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    A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid

    Peter Hennessy

    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’ which the…

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    The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945

    Peter Hennessy

    Explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on unparalleled access to many of the leading figures…

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    Never Again: Britain 1945-1951

    Peter Hennessy

    At the end of the Second World War Britain was in flux. It was an age of rationing and rebuilding; when hope for a better future contrasted with the horror…

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    The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010

    Peter Hennessy

    What were the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and ‘breakdown’ had occurred? When would the Queen have been informed and where would she have gone…

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    The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution

    Peter Hennessy

    The Bonfire of the Decencies offers a range of suggestions about what might be done to repair and restore the British constitution.

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    Establishment and Meritocracy

    Peter Hennessy

    The interlocking themes of Establishment and Meritocracy are a crucial part of the intellectual compost that made Hennessy’s generation of postwar Britons. The Establishment and the concept of a growing…

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    The Kingdom to Come: Thoughts on the Union before and after the Scottish Independence Referendum

    Peter Hennessy

    Hennessy surveys the constitutional building site opened up for the whole of the UK by the Scottish referendum, offering personal impressions of the time when the 300-year-old Act of Union…

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    Cabinets and the Bomb

    The nuclear weapons question runs through recent British history like an irradiated thread. This collection of declassified papers uncovers the private debates and justifications for Britain being a nuclear power…

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    Harold Wilson

    Ben Pimlott,Peter Hennessy

    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…

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    The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945

    James Jinks,Peter Hennessy

    ‘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 Britain’s armed forces, the Royal…

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    Reflections: Conversations with Politicians

    Peter Hennessy,Robert Shepherd

    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…

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    Canada’s Big House: The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary

    Peter H. Hennessy

    The story of Kingston Penitentiarys rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management.

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    A Very Different Land: Memories of Empire from the Farmlands of Kenya

    Hilary Sunman

    This book provides a unique and moving account of a country in transition and the pivotal roles played by those on the ground in the final years of empire.

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    Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat

    Sir Christopher Mallaby

    An insider’s account of the Cold War as seen by a key diplomat abroad and in London. A privileged view of work that won the Cold War, written with humour…

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    Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat

    Sir Christopher Mallaby

    New paperback edition - An insider’s account of the Cold War as seen by a key diplomat abroad and in London. A privileged view of work that won the Cold…

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    The Complete Reflections: Conversations with Politicians

    Peter Hennessy,Robert Shepherd,Melvyn Bragg

    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…

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    The Once Upon a Time Map Book: Take a Tour of Six Enchanted Lands

    B.G. Hennessy

    This beautiful and unique book contains maps of such famous fantasy lands as Neverland, Oz, and Aladdin’s kingdom. It features six fold-out maps and a fairy-tale pop-up castle finale. Full…

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    The Once Upon a Time Map Book: Take a Tour of Six Enchanted Lands

    B G Hennessy

    This beautiful and unique book contains maps of such famous fantasy lands as Neverland, Oz, and Aladdin’s kingdom. It features six fold-out maps and a fairy-tale pop-up castle finale. Full…

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    The Italian Job: Baroque Instrumental Music From The Italian States

    Gail Hennessy,Rachel Chaplin,Peter Whelan ,La Serenissima,Adrian Chandler

    Gramophone Award-winning Adrian Chandler and his period-instrument ensemble La Serenissima present The Italian Job, a feast of instrumental colour featuring oboes, bassoons, trumpets, trombone, timpani, strings and continuo, by some…

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    Automata, Languages and Programming: 29th International Colloquium, ICALP 2002, Malaga, Spain, July 8-13, 2002. Proceedings

    These are the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2002, held in Malaga, Spain, in July 2002

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    The Moral Heart of Public Service

    One year after Brexit, a stellar cast of eminent contributors from politics, public service and religion explore why now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to…

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