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…

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…

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…

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…

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…