Tam Dalyell was born in Edinburgh in 1932. He joined the Labour Party in 1956 after the Suez Crisis and served as an MP from 1962 to 2005, first for West Lothian and then for Linlithgow. He retired as Father of the House and Scotland's longest serving politician in 2005. He died in 2017.
20 Ebooks von Peter Hennessy
Claire Foster-Gilbert: The Moral Heart of Public Service
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 mo …
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€27.99
Peter Hennessy: Distilling the Frenzy
In Distilling the Frenzy, the UK’s leading contemporary historian examines the special considerations that apply to writing the history of one’s own times, and revisits the grand themes running throu …
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€16.99
Peter Hennessy & Ben Pimlott: Harold Wilson
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 …
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€12.99
Christopher Mallaby: Living the Cold War
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 …
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€9.92
Peter Hennessy: Having it So Good
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy’s Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing …
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€11.99
Peter Hennessy: Never Again
The first volume of Hennessy’s 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 in …
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€12.99
Peter Hennessy & James Jinks: Silent Deep
‚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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€11.99
Peter Hennessy: Secret State
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 …
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€10.99
Peter Hennessy: Winds of Change
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 Britain … so much fun, yet still shrewd and import …
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€19.99
Peter Hennessy: Establishment and Meritocracy
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 …
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€21.85
Peter Hennessy: Kingdom to Come
Despite the "No" 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 …
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€21.66
Peter Hennessy & Robert Shepherd: Reflections
Accompanying the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 program, Reflections features interviews with twelve of Britain’s most influential political figures from the last twenty years. Presented by Peter Hennessy, on …
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€32.16
Peter Hennessy & Robert Shepherd: Reflections
"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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€37.99
Peter Hennessy & David Normington: Power of Civil Servants
Throughout Britain, Civil Servants are exposed to public scrutiny today in unprecedented ways. What does it mean that the political neutrality of the Civil Service has only been enshrined in law sinc …
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€23.05
Peter Hennessy: Duty of Care
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 state owes to its citizens is a phrase muc …
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€10.99
Tam Dalyell: The Question of Scotland
In September 2014, with the Scottish independence referendum, the United Kingdom came close to being broken apart after three centuries of one of the most successful political unions in history. Yet …
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€9.59
Hilary Sunman: Very Different Land
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 com …
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€57.89
Peter Hennessy & Robert Shepherd: Complete Reflections
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 ear …
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€32.04
Andrew Blick & Peter Hennessy: Bonfire of The Decencies
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 …
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€29.59
Peter Hennessy: Land of Shame and Glory
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 experienc …
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€38.61
