Edward Hampshire
Biographic Data
| ID | 4420075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Hampshire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Hampshire |
| SIGNATURE | HAMPSHIRE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rediscovering Corbett
Battling the ‘big clunking fist’
The first Comprehensive Spending Review in 1997–98, led by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, was an important innovation of the first Blair government that allowed greater budget certainty for departments. The Comprehensive Spending Review occurred in parallel to a separate Strategic Defence Review within the Ministry of Defence, that reset British defence policy in a post-Cold War world where there were few, if any, existential threats t…
Staff Histories and Popular Histories
Strategic and Budgetary Necessity, or Decision-making ‘Along the Grain’? The Royal Navy and the 1981 Defence Review
The 1981 Defence Review undertaken by John Nott as Secretary of State for Defence controversially and dramatically cut the capabilities of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. Many of those involved in these decisions have emphasised the budgetary and politico-strategic drivers for these reductions in capability, and the first generation of academic analysis has broadly followed this position. However, recently released government and private archival…
Margaret Thatcher's First U-Turn
This article argues that hard-fought battles over defence spending in the first 18 months of Margaret Thatcher's government were vitally important, not only in setting the direction of defence policy for the rest of her time as Prime Minister, but also in determining how her government would prioritise economic policy and the control of public spending over other governmental priorities. The article sets out how, in her first six months as Prime …
Apply the Flame More Searingly’
In 2011, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office formally acknowledged that it held records of local colonial administration that had been removed from their repositories prior to independence and eventually transferred to the United Kingdom. These records are in the process of transfer to the National Archives. Using records released as part of the transfer so far, this article analyses the process of assessment, destruction and removal of local adm…
The Digital World and the Future of Historical Research
Historians need to recognize the profound changes in the records currently being created by businesses, government and private individuals, and the implications this will have on the way they undertake research with these records in the future. An electronic revolution has already occurred over the last decade in access to records, but the records accessed either remained non-electronic in themselves, or were surrogates of non-electronic original…
Apply the Flame More Searingly’
In 2011, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office formally acknowledged that it held records of local colonial administration that had been removed from their repositories prior to independence and eventually transferred to the United Kingdom. These records are in the process of transfer to the National Archives. Using records released as part of the transfer so far, this article analyses the process of assessment, destruction and removal of local adm…
Strategic and Budgetary Necessity, or Decision-making ‘Along the Grain’? The Royal Navy and the 1981 Defence Review
The 1981 Defence Review undertaken by John Nott as Secretary of State for Defence controversially and dramatically cut the capabilities of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. Many of those involved in these decisions have emphasised the budgetary and politico-strategic drivers for these reductions in capability, and the first generation of academic analysis has broadly followed this position. However, recently released government and private archival…
The Digital World and the Future of Historical Research
Historians need to recognize the profound changes in the records currently being created by businesses, government and private individuals, and the implications this will have on the way they undertake research with these records in the future. An electronic revolution has already occurred over the last decade in access to records, but the records accessed either remained non-electronic in themselves, or were surrogates of non-electronic original…
Margaret Thatcher's First U-Turn
This article argues that hard-fought battles over defence spending in the first 18 months of Margaret Thatcher's government were vitally important, not only in setting the direction of defence policy for the rest of her time as Prime Minister, but also in determining how her government would prioritise economic policy and the control of public spending over other governmental priorities. The article sets out how, in her first six months as Prime …
The Digital World and the Future of Historical Research
Historians need to recognize the profound changes in the records currently being created by businesses, government and private individuals, and the implications this will have on the way they undertake research with these records in the future. An electronic revolution has already occurred over the last decade in access to records, but the records accessed either remained non-electronic in themselves, or were surrogates of non-electronic original…
Apply the Flame More Searingly’
In 2011, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office formally acknowledged that it held records of local colonial administration that had been removed from their repositories prior to independence and eventually transferred to the United Kingdom. These records are in the process of transfer to the National Archives. Using records released as part of the transfer so far, this article analyses the process of assessment, destruction and removal of local adm…
Margaret Thatcher's First U-Turn
This article argues that hard-fought battles over defence spending in the first 18 months of Margaret Thatcher's government were vitally important, not only in setting the direction of defence policy for the rest of her time as Prime Minister, but also in determining how her government would prioritise economic policy and the control of public spending over other governmental priorities. The article sets out how, in her first six months as Prime …
Strategic and Budgetary Necessity, or Decision-making ‘Along the Grain’? The Royal Navy and the 1981 Defence Review
The 1981 Defence Review undertaken by John Nott as Secretary of State for Defence controversially and dramatically cut the capabilities of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. Many of those involved in these decisions have emphasised the budgetary and politico-strategic drivers for these reductions in capability, and the first generation of academic analysis has broadly followed this position. However, recently released government and private archival…
Staff Histories and Popular Histories
Rediscovering Corbett
Battling the ‘big clunking fist’
The first Comprehensive Spending Review in 1997–98, led by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, was an important innovation of the first Blair government that allowed greater budget certainty for departments. The Comprehensive Spending Review occurred in parallel to a separate Strategic Defence Review within the Ministry of Defence, that reset British defence policy in a post-Cold War world where there were few, if any, existential threats t…
Government (linguistics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital and Traditional Archives Management (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Finance (2 works)