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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.

Peter Hennessy charts the turbulent years of 2021 and 2022.

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 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 covid) and AC (after...

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

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 corona) and AC (after corona). He looks back to beginnings, when during wartime Sir William Beveridge identified the 'five giants' on the road to r...

The art of the interview is to caress, coax and cajole your subject into revealing more about themselves than they ever planned to do. Peter Hennessy does just that with verve and panache Nick Robinson

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 important' The Times, Books of the Year Harold Macmillan 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 ...

Accompanying Hennessy's radio programme of the same name, a series of encounters with key politicians of then and now. In this volume, Blair, Heseltine, Cable, Warsi, Ashdown, Harman and many others.

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 the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society, its relationship with Europe, its nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough - the United Kingdom's economy - great efforts...

The final years of this century have seen sweeping changes in society, in health care and in the demographic make-up of populations. Inevitably this has lead to changes in the type of health service that should (or can) be provided. Nursing has a crucial role to play in the necessary review of today's health care systems. This book explores the ways in which nurses can engage with and influence the formation of health policy now, and for the f...

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, exchanged between ministers, civil servants, scientists and intelligence officers. The narrative takes the story up to spring 2007.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Author - B.G. Hennessy Narrator - Peter Scolari A retelling of a timeless tale that is sure to leave readers grinning sheepishly. Chicken Little Author - Steven Kellogg Narrator - Helen Hunt & Hank Azaria This is the classic story of Chicken Little and her bird-brained friends who think the sky is falling. Rapunzel Author - Paul O. Zelinsky Narrator - Maureen Anderman A unique retelling of the classic story of Rapunzel, ...

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A charming concept. . . . Teaches rudiments of map reading and direction following in a friendly way, and it's sufficiently packed with diminutive images." - BooklistImagine navigating the mysteries of Aladdin's kingdom, the dangers of the Giant's world at the top of Jack's beanstalk, and the whimsy of Alice's Wonderland. Imagine a trip through the unique geographical features of Peter Pan's Neverland, Dorothy's Land of Oz, and Snow White's En...

A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter's Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors: "...[shall] be a place by every means not cruel and not affecting the health of the offender, [but] shall be rendered so irksome and so terrible that during his lifetime he may dread nothing so much as a repet...

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 of war. This title recreates the mood and feel of life in early post-war Britain.

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Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of History at Queen Mary College, London, and the Director of the Mile End Institute of Contemporary British Government, Intelligence and Society. He is the author of Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State (all Penguin).

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 and eventually self-propelling meritocracy were always at odds, and the policies that brought it about dramatically altered British society.

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 was called into question and when he, as the UK's foremost expert on our unwritten constitution, became an important voice in what may happen next.