Peter Hennessy
Biographic Data
| ID | 526891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hennessy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hennessy |
| SIGNATURE | HENNESSY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reflections
My Histories By Kenneth O. Morgan
Ken Morgan shines as a historian of intimacy. He writes of what he knows, what he has lived and breathed: the Labour Party (to which he has belonged for 60 years); Wales (of whom he is a dedicated son); plus twentieth- and twenty-first-century British politics (which he practises as a legislator in the House of Lords). He is also, to declare an interest, a friend and mentor of mine. Ken Morgan is one of the scholars who generated in me the wish t…
Reflections
Question of Scotland
The kingdom to come
On Joining the Constitution
A new independent crossbench peer takes stock of the institution he has just joined, examines the arguments for reform and ponders what might await
The Annual History of Parliament Lecture
From Blair to Brown
Peter Hennessy examines the conduct of central government since 1997, especially Cabinet processes during the build‐up to the Iraq war of 2003. He discusses the degree to which both Blair and Brown over the past months have appeared to run against aspects of the governing style of the administrations they have jointly dominated. He assesses what Gordon Brown's floated idea of a written constitution might mean in practical terms and makes a partic…
Churchill's Dover Speech (1946)
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 affluence. 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 Suez War. In this highly enjoyable, original book, Peter He…
Michael Young and the Labour Party
Informality and Circumscription
In the latest of his periodic 'overflights' of the Blair style of government since 1997, Peter Hennessy examines the significance of the 2004 Butler Report (on intelligence and weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War) for Tony Blair both as war premier and also as an indicator of his governing practices in general. He concludes that the Cabinet's overall performance on the road to war was seriously inadequate, and is especially critical…
Rulers and Servants of the State
Journal Article Rulers and Servants of the State: The Blair Style of Government 1997–2004 Get access Peter Hennessy Peter Hennessy Queen Mary, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 6–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi003 Published: 01 January 2005
Churchill and the Premiership
A POLITICAL and literary life of such extraordinary longevity, variety and richness of vocabulary leaves anyone seeking a consistent theme among any of Winston Churchill’s verbal puddings with a bowlful of paradox. The conduct of the premiership and the management of cabinet government are no exceptions. Among the papers his no. 10 private office produced for Harold Macmillan in the summer of 1960 when his appointment of a peer (Alec Home) to the…
The Blair Style and the Requirements of Twenty‐first Century Premiership
Lords of all they Surveyed? Churchill's Ministerial 'Overlords' 1951-1953
Journal Article Lords of all they Surveyed? Churchill's Ministerial 'Overlords' 1951–1953 Get access PETER HENNESSY, PETER HENNESSY *Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID WELSH DAVID WELSH **Research student at the Department of History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for other works…
The Blair Style of Government
MAY I BEGIN WITH A DASH OF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE? I DO SO AS A health warning, to myself as much as to anyone else. Just as the great Lord Salisbury once said that too much poring over maps tended to drive nineteenth-century ministers and military chiefs mad, an excessive concentration on prime-ministerial styles can propel scholars and commentators smack bang into the Tommy Cooper school of analysis – here you have collective cabinet government…
Searching for the 'Great Ghost
Almost a third of a century ago, General Charles de Gaulle, towering over both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, delivered a paean of praise to Britain's singular way of governing herself, as fulsome as it was unexpected, not least to those like the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, who were ever mindful that, as he put it, the French Head of State was 'always remembering the insults which he conceives were put upon him by Churchill durin…
Harvesting the Cupboards’
MY purpose today is to do a kind of David Bellamy on the least promising patch of that unmapped, unloved bog-of-a-phenomenon we call ‘The British Constitution’. You know the sort of thing—‘this might just look like a boring old bundle of procedures and conventions to you, but there's life and insight in here!’ If ennui is already setting in, don't be upset. You are part of the grand tradition of our political nation. For my text today is from Mr …
The Last Retreat of Fame
British Civil Service
Information
Helicopter Crashes into Cabinet
When Mrs Margaret Thatcher dies and the pathologists try to discover what made this remarkable woman tick they will find a little helicopter engraved on her heart. Westland for Mrs Thatcher what Calais was for Mary Tudor for all her determined efforts to dismiss it (and the attempted sale of Land Rover to General Motors shortly after) as comparatively small things . . . ifI may say so, very small things.1 affair was breathtaking not because of th…
Michael Heseltine, Mottram's Law and the Efficiency of Cabinet Government
The quality of cabinet government in Britain
Rulers and Servants of the State
Journal Article Rulers and Servants of the State: The Blair Style of Government 1997–2004 Get access Peter Hennessy Peter Hennessy Queen Mary, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 6–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi003 Published: 01 January 2005
The Blair Style of Government
MAY I BEGIN WITH A DASH OF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE? I DO SO AS A health warning, to myself as much as to anyone else. Just as the great Lord Salisbury once said that too much poring over maps tended to drive nineteenth-century ministers and military chiefs mad, an excessive concentration on prime-ministerial styles can propel scholars and commentators smack bang into the Tommy Cooper school of analysis – here you have collective cabinet government…
Britain's Cold War Security Purge
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Informality and Circumscription
In the latest of his periodic 'overflights' of the Blair style of government since 1997, Peter Hennessy examines the significance of the 2004 Butler Report (on intelligence and weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War) for Tony Blair both as war premier and also as an indicator of his governing practices in general. He concludes that the Cabinet's overall performance on the road to war was seriously inadequate, and is especially critical…
The Blair Style and the Requirements of Twenty‐first Century Premiership
From Blair to Brown
Peter Hennessy examines the conduct of central government since 1997, especially Cabinet processes during the build‐up to the Iraq war of 2003. He discusses the degree to which both Blair and Brown over the past months have appeared to run against aspects of the governing style of the administrations they have jointly dominated. He assesses what Gordon Brown's floated idea of a written constitution might mean in practical terms and makes a partic…
Lords of all they Surveyed? Churchill's Ministerial 'Overlords' 1951-1953
Journal Article Lords of all they Surveyed? Churchill's Ministerial 'Overlords' 1951–1953 Get access PETER HENNESSY, PETER HENNESSY *Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID WELSH DAVID WELSH **Research student at the Department of History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for other works…
Michael Heseltine, Mottram's Law and the Efficiency of Cabinet Government
The quality of cabinet government in Britain
Britain's Cold War Security Purge
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
States of Emergency
States of Emergency. British Governments and Strike Breaking since 1919
The quality of cabinet government in Britain
A Guided Tour of Whitehall's Secret Places
A GUIDED TOUR OF WHITEHALL'S SECRET PLACES Get access Peter Hennessy Peter Hennessy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 3, SUMMER 1985, Pages 349–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052000 Published: 01 July 1985
Information
Helicopter Crashes into Cabinet
When Mrs Margaret Thatcher dies and the pathologists try to discover what made this remarkable woman tick they will find a little helicopter engraved on her heart. Westland for Mrs Thatcher what Calais was for Mary Tudor for all her determined efforts to dismiss it (and the attempted sale of Land Rover to General Motors shortly after) as comparatively small things . . . ifI may say so, very small things.1 affair was breathtaking not because of th…
Michael Heseltine, Mottram's Law and the Efficiency of Cabinet Government
British Civil Service
The Last Retreat of Fame
Harvesting the Cupboards’
MY purpose today is to do a kind of David Bellamy on the least promising patch of that unmapped, unloved bog-of-a-phenomenon we call ‘The British Constitution’. You know the sort of thing—‘this might just look like a boring old bundle of procedures and conventions to you, but there's life and insight in here!’ If ennui is already setting in, don't be upset. You are part of the grand tradition of our political nation. For my text today is from Mr …
Searching for the 'Great Ghost
Almost a third of a century ago, General Charles de Gaulle, towering over both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, delivered a paean of praise to Britain's singular way of governing herself, as fulsome as it was unexpected, not least to those like the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, who were ever mindful that, as he put it, the French Head of State was 'always remembering the insults which he conceives were put upon him by Churchill durin…
Lords of all they Surveyed? Churchill's Ministerial 'Overlords' 1951-1953
Journal Article Lords of all they Surveyed? Churchill's Ministerial 'Overlords' 1951–1953 Get access PETER HENNESSY, PETER HENNESSY *Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID WELSH DAVID WELSH **Research student at the Department of History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Search for other works…
The Blair Style of Government
MAY I BEGIN WITH A DASH OF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE? I DO SO AS A health warning, to myself as much as to anyone else. Just as the great Lord Salisbury once said that too much poring over maps tended to drive nineteenth-century ministers and military chiefs mad, an excessive concentration on prime-ministerial styles can propel scholars and commentators smack bang into the Tommy Cooper school of analysis – here you have collective cabinet government…
The Blair Style and the Requirements of Twenty‐first Century Premiership
Churchill and the Premiership
A POLITICAL and literary life of such extraordinary longevity, variety and richness of vocabulary leaves anyone seeking a consistent theme among any of Winston Churchill’s verbal puddings with a bowlful of paradox. The conduct of the premiership and the management of cabinet government are no exceptions. Among the papers his no. 10 private office produced for Harold Macmillan in the summer of 1960 when his appointment of a peer (Alec Home) to the…
Michael Young and the Labour Party
Informality and Circumscription
In the latest of his periodic 'overflights' of the Blair style of government since 1997, Peter Hennessy examines the significance of the 2004 Butler Report (on intelligence and weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War) for Tony Blair both as war premier and also as an indicator of his governing practices in general. He concludes that the Cabinet's overall performance on the road to war was seriously inadequate, and is especially critical…
Rulers and Servants of the State
Journal Article Rulers and Servants of the State: The Blair Style of Government 1997–2004 Get access Peter Hennessy Peter Hennessy Queen Mary, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 6–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi003 Published: 01 January 2005
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 affluence. 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 Suez War. In this highly enjoyable, original book, Peter He…
From Blair to Brown
Peter Hennessy examines the conduct of central government since 1997, especially Cabinet processes during the build‐up to the Iraq war of 2003. He discusses the degree to which both Blair and Brown over the past months have appeared to run against aspects of the governing style of the administrations they have jointly dominated. He assesses what Gordon Brown's floated idea of a written constitution might mean in practical terms and makes a partic…
Churchill's Dover Speech (1946)
The Annual History of Parliament Lecture
On Joining the Constitution
A new independent crossbench peer takes stock of the institution he has just joined, examines the arguments for reform and ponders what might await
The kingdom to come
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