Helen Parr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Parr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Parr |
| SIGNATURE | PARR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The all‐consuming mess of leaving the EU
Comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982
Combatant memoirs are a valuable source for historians of conflict in general and of the Falklands War in particular, revealing experiences of war that would otherwise be beyond recovery. This chapter provides a previously unpublished memoir (written in 2006) of the Falklands War by Lieutenant Commander Michael Ambler (d. 2009), who served on the staff of Commodore Michael Clapp on hms Fearless . Included in the footnotes are entries from the dia…
Remembering the Falklands war in Britain
This article examines how the Falklands war has been remembered in Britain. By looking at how ideas of the Falklands war reached public audiences, the article traces changing British understandings of the composition of the conflict. In the 1980s, the war was regarded as politically divisive. Since the 1990s, political divisions faded, and the perspectives of veterans, particularly as represented in the memoirs of lower ranked soldiers, became pr…
Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War
This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies sets out the scope of the collection of articles which reflect in different ways on conflict and culture on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. The special issue highlights the diversity of practices of cultural production in response to the war and its legacy. The articles examine: how the war has been remembered in Britain since 1982…
The Korean War in Britain
The Korean War in Britain: citizenship, selfhood and forgetting." Contemporary British History, 34(3), pp. 489–490
Yes to Europe
If Harold Wilson had foreseen the 2016 referendum, would he still have consented to hold one in 1975 on Britain’s continued membership of the European Community (EC), or Common Market? One of the many striking things about Robert Saunders’ excellent book is how many politicians and commentators in 1975 thought a referendum—the first in Britain’s history—a terrible idea. The Sun called it a ‘constitutional monstrosity’ that menaced the survival of…
Continental Drift
This is a timely book with a compelling objective. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon explores the connections between the end of Britain’s Empire and the growth of ‘Euroscepticism’. Most historians of European integration, he claims, have not attempted to put Britain’s policies towards the EEC/EU in this context, and therefore have not shown ‘how the British evolved from being a nation of imperial Europeans to one of post-imperial Eurosceptics’ (p. 7). Th…
The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4
This article adopts a political approach to examine the reasons why Edward Heath's government wanted to upgrade Polaris and the reasons why they did so by way of a programme called Super Antelope, to improve the front-ends of the missiles against Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile defence, as opposed to the alternatives on offer. It argues that the political contexts within which Heath took the decision have been insufficiently understood, and shows t…
The Nuclear Myth’
This article examines the course of Edward Heath's initiative to seek Anglo-French nuclear co-operation, 1970–3. It focuses on the deliberations in Whitehall, and the high-level international politics among Britain, the United States, and France. It does so to bring to light the negligible progress made in nuclear matters between Britain and France, and to comment on the place of nuclear diplomacy within wider British policy towards Europe, Franc…
The Labour Party and the World
The Labour Party and the World: Volume 2: Labour's Foreign Policy since 1951." Contemporary British History, 26(4), pp. 562–563
The Year that Never Was
Catherine Hynes’s monograph, adapted from her PhD dissertation, presents one of the first forays based on documentary evidence into the intriguing diplomacy of the relationship between the USA, Britain, and the newly enlarged European Community (EC). Hynes’s book, based primarily on British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Prime Ministers’ files (PREM) documents from the British National Archives, and also including some interesting glim…
Terry Macintyre, Anglo–German Relations During the Labour Governments 1964–70
Terry Macintyre has produced a persuasive revisionist account of Anglo–German relations during the Harold Wilson governments 1964–70. Macintyre's study is multi-archival, based mainly on government
Saving the Community
This article is based on research in the French archives. It argues that French policy towards enlargement was primarily motivated by political rather than economic considerations. As in 1961–63, the French were determined to preserve their position of leadership within the EEC. The French did not want the Community to break up. Their diplomacy was based on the need to preserve the Community of Six while barring Britain. Although France succeeded…
Britain, America, East of Suez and the EEC
Labour's foreign policy has been regarded as deluded by outdated greatness, or as lacking coherence and strategy. While Wilson had little intention of applying for membership of the Community in his first term of office, his policy was grounded in a strategic rationale. His decision to apply for Community membership indicated recognition of diminishment in Britain's international standing, but it also intended to retain British political independ…
Introduction
Harold Wilson's Labour party came to power in October 1964 with a pledge to modernise Britain. ‘Modernisation’ was the omnibus phrase that he used in each and every area of policy, from the shape o
Conclusions
When I listened on Sunday to the tributes to Jim Callaghan, I recalled the 90th birthday party we gave for him in Downing Street a few years back. Around the room, Denis Healey talking to Roy Jenki
A Question of Leadership
This article examines the reasons why Harold Wilson decided to embark on a probe of the European Community countries in October 1966 to see if the conditions existed for British membership of the EEC. It traces the development of Wilson's policy towards the EEC between 1964 and 1966. It argues that Wilson's policy towards the Community was politically not economically motivated. Faced with the contraction of Britain's political influence in Europ…
Evaluating community care
Britain, America, East of Suez and the EEC
Labour's foreign policy has been regarded as deluded by outdated greatness, or as lacking coherence and strategy. While Wilson had little intention of applying for membership of the Community in his first term of office, his policy was grounded in a strategic rationale. His decision to apply for Community membership indicated recognition of diminishment in Britain's international standing, but it also intended to retain British political independ…
The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4
This article adopts a political approach to examine the reasons why Edward Heath's government wanted to upgrade Polaris and the reasons why they did so by way of a programme called Super Antelope, to improve the front-ends of the missiles against Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile defence, as opposed to the alternatives on offer. It argues that the political contexts within which Heath took the decision have been insufficiently understood, and shows t…
Conclusions
When I listened on Sunday to the tributes to Jim Callaghan, I recalled the 90th birthday party we gave for him in Downing Street a few years back. Around the room, Denis Healey talking to Roy Jenki
A Question of Leadership
This article examines the reasons why Harold Wilson decided to embark on a probe of the European Community countries in October 1966 to see if the conditions existed for British membership of the EEC. It traces the development of Wilson's policy towards the EEC between 1964 and 1966. It argues that Wilson's policy towards the Community was politically not economically motivated. Faced with the contraction of Britain's political influence in Europ…
Evaluating community care
A Question of Leadership
This article examines the reasons why Harold Wilson decided to embark on a probe of the European Community countries in October 1966 to see if the conditions existed for British membership of the EEC. It traces the development of Wilson's policy towards the EEC between 1964 and 1966. It argues that Wilson's policy towards the Community was politically not economically motivated. Faced with the contraction of Britain's political influence in Europ…
Saving the Community
This article is based on research in the French archives. It argues that French policy towards enlargement was primarily motivated by political rather than economic considerations. As in 1961–63, the French were determined to preserve their position of leadership within the EEC. The French did not want the Community to break up. Their diplomacy was based on the need to preserve the Community of Six while barring Britain. Although France succeeded…
Britain, America, East of Suez and the EEC
Labour's foreign policy has been regarded as deluded by outdated greatness, or as lacking coherence and strategy. While Wilson had little intention of applying for membership of the Community in his first term of office, his policy was grounded in a strategic rationale. His decision to apply for Community membership indicated recognition of diminishment in Britain's international standing, but it also intended to retain British political independ…
Introduction
Harold Wilson's Labour party came to power in October 1964 with a pledge to modernise Britain. ‘Modernisation’ was the omnibus phrase that he used in each and every area of policy, from the shape o
Conclusions
When I listened on Sunday to the tributes to Jim Callaghan, I recalled the 90th birthday party we gave for him in Downing Street a few years back. Around the room, Denis Healey talking to Roy Jenki
Terry Macintyre, Anglo–German Relations During the Labour Governments 1964–70
Terry Macintyre has produced a persuasive revisionist account of Anglo–German relations during the Harold Wilson governments 1964–70. Macintyre's study is multi-archival, based mainly on government
The Year that Never Was
Catherine Hynes’s monograph, adapted from her PhD dissertation, presents one of the first forays based on documentary evidence into the intriguing diplomacy of the relationship between the USA, Britain, and the newly enlarged European Community (EC). Hynes’s book, based primarily on British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Prime Ministers’ files (PREM) documents from the British National Archives, and also including some interesting glim…
The Labour Party and the World
The Labour Party and the World: Volume 2: Labour's Foreign Policy since 1951." Contemporary British History, 26(4), pp. 562–563
The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4
This article adopts a political approach to examine the reasons why Edward Heath's government wanted to upgrade Polaris and the reasons why they did so by way of a programme called Super Antelope, to improve the front-ends of the missiles against Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile defence, as opposed to the alternatives on offer. It argues that the political contexts within which Heath took the decision have been insufficiently understood, and shows t…
The Nuclear Myth’
This article examines the course of Edward Heath's initiative to seek Anglo-French nuclear co-operation, 1970–3. It focuses on the deliberations in Whitehall, and the high-level international politics among Britain, the United States, and France. It does so to bring to light the negligible progress made in nuclear matters between Britain and France, and to comment on the place of nuclear diplomacy within wider British policy towards Europe, Franc…
Continental Drift
This is a timely book with a compelling objective. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon explores the connections between the end of Britain’s Empire and the growth of ‘Euroscepticism’. Most historians of European integration, he claims, have not attempted to put Britain’s policies towards the EEC/EU in this context, and therefore have not shown ‘how the British evolved from being a nation of imperial Europeans to one of post-imperial Eurosceptics’ (p. 7). Th…
The Korean War in Britain
The Korean War in Britain: citizenship, selfhood and forgetting." Contemporary British History, 34(3), pp. 489–490
Yes to Europe
If Harold Wilson had foreseen the 2016 referendum, would he still have consented to hold one in 1975 on Britain’s continued membership of the European Community (EC), or Common Market? One of the many striking things about Robert Saunders’ excellent book is how many politicians and commentators in 1975 thought a referendum—the first in Britain’s history—a terrible idea. The Sun called it a ‘constitutional monstrosity’ that menaced the survival of…
Comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982
Combatant memoirs are a valuable source for historians of conflict in general and of the Falklands War in particular, revealing experiences of war that would otherwise be beyond recovery. This chapter provides a previously unpublished memoir (written in 2006) of the Falklands War by Lieutenant Commander Michael Ambler (d. 2009), who served on the staff of Commodore Michael Clapp on hms Fearless . Included in the footnotes are entries from the dia…
Remembering the Falklands war in Britain
This article examines how the Falklands war has been remembered in Britain. By looking at how ideas of the Falklands war reached public audiences, the article traces changing British understandings of the composition of the conflict. In the 1980s, the war was regarded as politically divisive. Since the 1990s, political divisions faded, and the perspectives of veterans, particularly as represented in the memoirs of lower ranked soldiers, became pr…
Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War
This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies sets out the scope of the collection of articles which reflect in different ways on conflict and culture on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. The special issue highlights the diversity of practices of cultural production in response to the war and its legacy. The articles examine: how the war has been remembered in Britain since 1982…
The all‐consuming mess of leaving the EU
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