Glen O’hara
Biographic Data
| ID | 88343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glen O’hara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glen |
| FAMILY NAME | O’hara |
| SIGNATURE | O’HARA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Nature Does Not Make a Jump’: The British Government's Very Long-term Planning Committee in the 1960s
Most commentary about the influence of scientific and economic ‘experts’ in post-war Britain focuses on policy failures – on the inadequacy of medium-term decisions, and on missed targets and political reverses. This is particularly so in the field of very long term economic and social planning, given the scrapping of most controls in the early to mid-1950s and the abandonment of the ill-fated National Plan of 1965. This essay seeks to recover a …
Where now for Britain's Universities
Although the financial crisis facing the United Kingdom's universities is by now well known, the detailed reasons behind it have been less prominent in public and political debate. It is true that frozen tuition fees have gradually reduced the true value of funding for undergraduate teaching, but the sector's deep instability is also a result of two further errors. The first—removing all controls over home student numbers—made universities’ incom…
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right
The life course paradigm brought a focus on continuity and change in offending across the entire life span to criminology. Early research evolved to capture individual-level variation and the events, experiences and opportunities that functioned to spur change and alter behavioural trajectories. Though the notion that ‘lives change in a changing society’ (Elder et al. 1994: 11) is fundamental to the life course paradigm, the principle of historic…
New Labour in Power: Five Problems of Contemporary History
The history of New Labour is highly politicised, deployed either for its policy lessons (good or bad) or as a weapon in Labour's factional struggles. But, just as historians in the 1990s reassessed the premierships of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, so the distance of time and the opening of archives offers an opportunity to reappraise New Labour as history. Such work raises five methodological challenges: the lack of sufficient distance from …
Whose right to roam? Contesting access to England’s countryside
England's “right to roam” continues to be a misnomer which is uneven in scope and inclusivity. While the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 opened access to privately owned mountains, moors, heaths, and downs, the changes were not as bold as they at first seemed and access was still restricted. The 2000 Act was representative of the contemporary atmosphere in which concern for accessibility and inclusivity was strongly qualified, with a focus…
Richard Carr, March of the Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics
The Russian Revolution has not yet taken place: British views of the Soviet economy between the nineteen-fifties and nineteen-seventies
This article examines British officials' and ministers' attitudes towards the Soviet Union's economy in the post-Second World War era. In the nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties, public and some expert commentary posited Soviet economic 'success' based on the country's increasingly rapid growth rate, its potential for consumerization, the promise of economic reform, and the Soviet state's emphasis on education, science and the application…
How can experts help governments think: Inaugural Lecture
Britain’s exit from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 and the Second Iraq War in 2003 are two infamous examples of disastrous policy, but governments blunder all the time – whatever party is in power. Infrastructure projects overrun. The aims and techniques of different departments clash. Scandals erupt among officials and politicians. Controversies stymie attempts at agreement and consensus. But why exactly do these failures happen? A…
Finnish water services: Experiences in global perspectives
This lavishly illustrated and colourful volume, published under the remit of the Finnish Water Utilities Association and following up the author’s previous two books on the subject, provides a fasc
Managing the economy, managing the people: Narratives of economic life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit
Managing the economy, managing the people: narratives of economic life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit." Contemporary British History, 32(4), pp. 568–569
Reassessing 1970s Britain
The 1970s was a strange time: a decade full of contradictions. For those of a certain age and class, it was a golden age of opportunity and equality. The British would never be more equal, as infla
The Liberal Party and the economy, 1929–1964
Peter Sloman’s book on the mid-century Liberal Party comes at an apposite time, with the Liberal Democrats in crisis following their disastrous showing in the 2015 General Election, and the party d
Temporal Governance. Time, Exhortation and Planning in British Government, c.1959–c.1979
Temporal Governance. Time, Exhortation and Planning in British Government, c.1959-c.1979 The early 1960s saw a number of long-term plans being issued by the British government – for roads, hospitals, new towns, social care, and even the whole economy. A «Very Long Term Planning Group» within Whitehall even looked 25 years into the future, to inform the setting of priorities. By the 1970s, however, this effort seemed to have entirely broken down, …
Origins of the Suez Crisis: Postwar Development Diplomacy and the Struggle over Third World Industrialization, 1945–1956, by Guy Laron
Journal Article Origins of the Suez Crisis: Postwar Development Diplomacy and the Struggle over Third World Industrialization, 1945–1956, by Guy Laron Get access Origins of the Suez Crisis: Postwar Development Diplomacy and the Struggle over Third World Industrialization, 1945–1956, by Guy Laron (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2013; pp. xv + 260. £28.50). G.S. O’Hara G.S. O’Hara Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author …
Inside the illicit economy: Reconstructing the smugglers' trade of sixteenth-century Bristol
Evan Jones's new book on Bristol smuggling is an important achievement in many respects. It will help economic historians refocus their attention on the long controversy about England's early moder
Kathleen Burk and the History of Diplomacy
Professor Kathleen Burk has worked on some of the key themes in the history of diplomacy for more than three decades. Foremost amongst them has been the role of financial strength in the projection of power, and other key themes have included the role of the individual in making state policy; the concept and practice of “imperialism”; and the importance of non-state actors, such as banks, businessmen, and even tourists in the interplay between na…
The Complexities of 'Consumerism: Choice, Collectivism and Participation within Britain's National Health Service, c.1961-c.1979
This article explores the overlapping and conflicting points of contact between 'consumerism', collectivism and participation in Britain's National Health Service during a period of relatively well-funded expansion during the economic 'golden age' of the 1960s and 1970s. Despite recent neo-liberal attempts to define 'consumerism' around the wishes and choices of the individual, and to conceptualise areas such as individual hospital referrals as p…
The foundations of British maritime ascendancy: Resources, logistics and the state, 1755-1815 - By Roger Morriss
Parties, People, and Parliament: Britain’s “Ombudsman” and the Politics of the 1960s
I am doped", I had told the doctor when he had called to see me -and indeed, he wrote it down in evidence against me. My illness had started with giddy turns and curious bouts of automatic talking when I had sat down in a chair and given forth oracular pronouncements, lasting several minutes at a time; words, for which I had been a mere passive vehicle, had formed themselves on my lips and been uttered for the benefit of anyone who happened to be…
New Histories of British Imperial Communication and the ‘Networked World’ of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
A number of recent histories of Britain’s late‐19th century telegraph network have taken inspiration from many sources, not least historians’ concern to test and delineate the contemporary and modern world of transnational policymaking, the return of maritime history to the forefront of historical studies, and the desire to understand the late 19th century empire that seemed to be drawing strength from technological progress. But another key reas…
The Bank of England: 1950S to 1979 (Studies in Macroeconomic History). By Forrest Capie. * The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992. By Catherine R. Schenk
There is no doubt that economics are the political battleground of our time. The ongoing crisis of the banking system was first met by desperate attempts to stem banks’ outflow of capital as the world’s financial structure threatened to collapse. This first stage of the drama was then followed by President Obama’s so far relatively unsuccessful attempts to stitch together global and domestic coalitions for continued intervention and growth. In Br…
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, the Foreign Office, and the Sachsenhausen Case, 1964–1968
This communication follows the evolution, reception, and implications of the parliamentary commissioner's critical 1968 report on Foreign Office ‘maladministration’ regarding compensation for British concentration camp inmates. It explores officials' and ministers' attitude to the investigative techniques associated with this new office, as well as their hostile reaction to the publicity and parliamentary controversy to which his work gave rise. …
From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918. By Mary A. Conley
Mary Conley's new book covers that period in which the Royal Navy seemed absolutely central to national life: roughly the period between German unity in 1870–71 and the First World War. It does most of its job of analysing ‘manliness’ in that period very well. In particular, it deconstructs the all-drinking, all-fighting and all-womanizing Jack Tar of popular myth and brings contemporary views of late Victorian and Edwardian seamen sharply into f…
The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers, and Urban Culture (2007)
The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers, and Urban Culture (2007)." Social History, 34(3), pp. 386–387
This is What Growth Does’: British Views of the European Economies in the Prosperous ‘Golden Age’ of 1951—73
This article attempts to deconstruct and analyse British views of the European economies during the post-war years of fast growth, low unemployment and subdued inflation. Though there had been a great deal of academic attention paid to Britons’ self-perceptions, less research has been conducted as to how they saw the most relevant ‘other’: the societies and economies on either side of the English Channel. Two case-studies are utilized here to sug…
The Sea is Swinging Into View: Modern British Maritime History in a Globalised World
DAVID CANNADINE has recently argued that ‘one of the key themes’ of modern British history had become ‘the sea; for both the British world, and Britain's relations with the world beyond its own dominions, were defined in maritime terms, and should be understood in such terms’. Such a statement would have been very unlikely even a few years ago.1 British maritime history has recently been enjoying something of a renaissance, to judge from the prol…
The Complexities of 'Consumerism: Choice, Collectivism and Participation within Britain's National Health Service, c.1961-c.1979
This article explores the overlapping and conflicting points of contact between 'consumerism', collectivism and participation in Britain's National Health Service during a period of relatively well-funded expansion during the economic 'golden age' of the 1960s and 1970s. Despite recent neo-liberal attempts to define 'consumerism' around the wishes and choices of the individual, and to conceptualise areas such as individual hospital referrals as p…
The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers, and Urban Culture (2007)
The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers, and Urban Culture (2007)." Social History, 34(3), pp. 386–387
Applied Socialism of a Fairly Moderate Kind’: Scandinavia, British policymakers and the post‐war housing market1
This article analyses general opinions of Scandinavia held by British policymakers in the post‐war period, before going on to examine a particular instance of Britain's attempts to copy ‘Scandinavian policies’ in the early 1960s. Given the generally positive views held as concerned Scandinavian economic and social policies at the time, and the influence those countries wielded in international economic and social policy networks, such attempts we…
Parties, People, and Parliament: Britain’s “Ombudsman” and the Politics of the 1960s
I am doped", I had told the doctor when he had called to see me -and indeed, he wrote it down in evidence against me. My illness had started with giddy turns and curious bouts of automatic talking when I had sat down in a chair and given forth oracular pronouncements, lasting several minutes at a time; words, for which I had been a mere passive vehicle, had formed themselves on my lips and been uttered for the benefit of anyone who happened to be…
Intractable, Obscure and Baffling’: The Incomes Policy of the Conservative Government, 1957–64
The study of British incomes policy has been hampered by the difficulty of developing a coherent overall analysis of the reasons for its appeal and effects. Historians have usually been interested in the details of party political disputation and policy-making. Political scientists and economists have instead explained the adoption and failure of such policies by reference to the structure of British democracy and the British economy. This articl…
What the electorate can be expected to swallow’: Nationalisation, transnationalism and the shifting boundaries of the state in post-war Britain
This article attempts to show that there were three key elements to the changing policy mix as regards state economic intervention and ownership in post-war Britain. These have been relatively neglected by economic historians in favour of questions concerning ‘objective’ performance. They were: the uncertainty, confusion and competition of the two main political parties as to what the nationalised sector was for; attempts to escape an unpopular a…
Towards a new Bradshaw? Economic statistics and the British state in the 1950s and 1960s
This article outlines the attempts of British central government to react to the perceived inadequacy of official economic statistics. A huge amount of work went into this project, the main aim of which was to speed up the production of statistics so that the economy could be analysed in more detail, and thus better managed. If this was to work, more data was required on the labour market, on productivity, on production, and on the interlinkages …
New Labour in Power: Five Problems of Contemporary History
The history of New Labour is highly politicised, deployed either for its policy lessons (good or bad) or as a weapon in Labour's factional struggles. But, just as historians in the 1990s reassessed the premierships of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, so the distance of time and the opening of archives offers an opportunity to reappraise New Labour as history. Such work raises five methodological challenges: the lack of sufficient distance from …
This is What Growth Does’: British Views of the European Economies in the Prosperous ‘Golden Age’ of 1951—73
This article attempts to deconstruct and analyse British views of the European economies during the post-war years of fast growth, low unemployment and subdued inflation. Though there had been a great deal of academic attention paid to Britons’ self-perceptions, less research has been conducted as to how they saw the most relevant ‘other’: the societies and economies on either side of the English Channel. Two case-studies are utilized here to sug…
Dynamic, Exciting, Thrilling Change’: The Wilson Government's Economic Policies, 1964–70
Much of the disillusionment with Harold Wilson as Labour's leader and prime minister was due to his perceived failure on the economic front. He pledged not to devalue sterling, but did exactly that in 1967; he promised to keep unemployment low, but had by 1970 accepted a higher rate of joblessness than the Conservatives had managed. Some of the elements in Labour's programme – the emphasis on steadier growth, for instance – were probably misguide…
We are Faced Everywhere with a Growing Population: Demographic Change and the British State, 1955-64
The early 1960s was a period of relative expansion for the welfare state, and the return to the use of planning techniques in macroeconomic policy. This has hitherto been explained by reference to a number of general causes. These have included party political electoral necessity, the need to gain popular support for the cold war by spreading the benefits of liberal capitalism, the power of welfare professionals, the growing realization that the …
The Limits of US Power: Transatlantic Financial Diplomacy under the Johnson and Wilson Administrations, October 1964–November 1968
Historians' views of the transatlantic financial diplomacy of the later 1960s have been dominated by the idea of a secret deal made between President Lyndon Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1965, which traded US financial help for a continuation of the United Kingdom's world defence role. This notion has become extremely widespread, and is often taken for granted in historical writing. There was a high level of co-operation between the…
The Liberal Party and the economy, 1929–1964
Peter Sloman’s book on the mid-century Liberal Party comes at an apposite time, with the Liberal Democrats in crisis following their disastrous showing in the 2015 General Election, and the party d
New Histories of British Imperial Communication and the ‘Networked World’ of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
A number of recent histories of Britain’s late‐19th century telegraph network have taken inspiration from many sources, not least historians’ concern to test and delineate the contemporary and modern world of transnational policymaking, the return of maritime history to the forefront of historical studies, and the desire to understand the late 19th century empire that seemed to be drawing strength from technological progress. But another key reas…
Conclusions: Harold Wilson's 1964–70 Governments and the Heritage of ‘New’ Labour
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 journey without maps: The regional policies of the 1964–70 British Labour Government
O'Hara G. (2005) A journey without maps: the regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government, Regional Studies 39 , 1183-1195. This paper examines four influences on British regional policy in the late 1960s: party politics in the context of the economic environment; the structure of government; the influence of the 'new regional economics'; and the impact of new knowledge and statistics. Much of the confusion of British regional polic…
Planned Growth of Incomes’ or ‘Emergency Gimmick’? The Labour Party, The Social Partners and Incomes Policy, 1964-70
Previous attempts to explain Britain's failure to develop an effective incomes policy have tended to focus on general causes. These have included the small scale of industry, the weakness of ‘peak associations’ of employers and trade unionists, or fragmentation and lack of expertise in government. While this article does not attempt to challenge the importance of these factors, it will attempt to tell a more detailed and specific story about Labo…
The Limits of US Power: Transatlantic Financial Diplomacy under the Johnson and Wilson Administrations, October 1964–November 1968
Historians' views of the transatlantic financial diplomacy of the later 1960s have been dominated by the idea of a secret deal made between President Lyndon Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1965, which traded US financial help for a continuation of the United Kingdom's world defence role. This notion has become extremely widespread, and is often taken for granted in historical writing. There was a high level of co-operation between the…
Intractable, Obscure and Baffling’: The Incomes Policy of the Conservative Government, 1957–64
The study of British incomes policy has been hampered by the difficulty of developing a coherent overall analysis of the reasons for its appeal and effects. Historians have usually been interested in the details of party political disputation and policy-making. Political scientists and economists have instead explained the adoption and failure of such policies by reference to the structure of British democracy and the British economy. This articl…
Planned Growth of Incomes’ or ‘Emergency Gimmick’? The Labour Party, The Social Partners and Incomes Policy, 1964-70
Previous attempts to explain Britain's failure to develop an effective incomes policy have tended to focus on general causes. These have included the small scale of industry, the weakness of ‘peak associations’ of employers and trade unionists, or fragmentation and lack of expertise in government. While this article does not attempt to challenge the importance of these factors, it will attempt to tell a more detailed and specific story about Labo…
We are Faced Everywhere with a Growing Population: Demographic Change and the British State, 1955-64
The early 1960s was a period of relative expansion for the welfare state, and the return to the use of planning techniques in macroeconomic policy. This has hitherto been explained by reference to a number of general causes. These have included party political electoral necessity, the need to gain popular support for the cold war by spreading the benefits of liberal capitalism, the power of welfare professionals, the growing realization that the …
The Labour Governments 1964-1970. Volume III: Economic Policy
Journal Article The Labour Governments 1964–1970. Volume III : Economic Policy Get access G. O’Hara G. O’Hara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 483, September 2004, Pages 1018–1020, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.483.1018 Published: 01 September 2004
A journey without maps: The regional policies of the 1964–70 British Labour Government
O'Hara G. (2005) A journey without maps: the regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government, Regional Studies 39 , 1183-1195. This paper examines four influences on British regional policy in the late 1960s: party politics in the context of the economic environment; the structure of government; the influence of the 'new regional economics'; and the impact of new knowledge and statistics. Much of the confusion of British regional polic…
Dynamic, Exciting, Thrilling Change’: The Wilson Government's Economic Policies, 1964–70
Much of the disillusionment with Harold Wilson as Labour's leader and prime minister was due to his perceived failure on the economic front. He pledged not to devalue sterling, but did exactly that in 1967; he promised to keep unemployment low, but had by 1970 accepted a higher rate of joblessness than the Conservatives had managed. Some of the elements in Labour's programme – the emphasis on steadier growth, for instance – were probably misguide…
Introduction: The Fall and Rise of a Reputation
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: Harold Wilson's 1964–70 Governments and the Heritage of ‘New’ Labour
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
Sprawl: A Compact History. By Robert Bruegmann
Britain's suburbs have very rarely attracted praise from anyone. One collection of essays from 1972, Civilia: The End of Suburban Man, started with these words: ‘sprawl is a polite word for ... an almost unbelievable habit called by D.H. Lawrence doing dirt [sic] ... creating the kind of environment that explains why last year three million housewives in Britain queued up at the surgery for sleeping pills, tranquilizers and anti-depressants’. Cri…
Living With the Neighbours? The New Cambridge Economic History of Britain and the Renovation of Economic History
BRITISH economic history is in trouble. Departments dedicated to that subject alone have closed down; student demand is declining; the number of posts in economic history is falling. Though the Economic History Society continues to hold on to a stable number of members, and the Economic History Review is widely read, there is little disguising the fact that undergraduates and, to a lesser extent, graduate students find economic history dense, dif…
Applied Socialism of a Fairly Moderate Kind’: Scandinavia, British policymakers and the post‐war housing market1
This article analyses general opinions of Scandinavia held by British policymakers in the post‐war period, before going on to examine a particular instance of Britain's attempts to copy ‘Scandinavian policies’ in the early 1960s. Given the generally positive views held as concerned Scandinavian economic and social policies at the time, and the influence those countries wielded in international economic and social policy networks, such attempts we…
An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe
IVAN BEREND is one of the world's foremost experts on Europe's economic ‘periphery’—Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean—and his new textbook on the European economy admirably demonstrates the value of such expertise. Other historians have been mesmerised by Britain's early economic leadership, the question of French ‘backwardness’ in the early twentieth century, or Soviet and German war mobilisation in the middle of the short twentieth…
Towards a new Bradshaw? Economic statistics and the British state in the 1950s and 1960s
This article outlines the attempts of British central government to react to the perceived inadequacy of official economic statistics. A huge amount of work went into this project, the main aim of which was to speed up the production of statistics so that the economy could be analysed in more detail, and thus better managed. If this was to work, more data was required on the labour market, on productivity, on production, and on the interlinkages …
From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918. By Mary A. Conley
Mary Conley's new book covers that period in which the Royal Navy seemed absolutely central to national life: roughly the period between German unity in 1870–71 and the First World War. It does most of its job of analysing ‘manliness’ in that period very well. In particular, it deconstructs the all-drinking, all-fighting and all-womanizing Jack Tar of popular myth and brings contemporary views of late Victorian and Edwardian seamen sharply into f…
The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers, and Urban Culture (2007)
The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers, and Urban Culture (2007)." Social History, 34(3), pp. 386–387
This is What Growth Does’: British Views of the European Economies in the Prosperous ‘Golden Age’ of 1951—73
This article attempts to deconstruct and analyse British views of the European economies during the post-war years of fast growth, low unemployment and subdued inflation. Though there had been a great deal of academic attention paid to Britons’ self-perceptions, less research has been conducted as to how they saw the most relevant ‘other’: the societies and economies on either side of the English Channel. Two case-studies are utilized here to sug…
The Sea is Swinging Into View: Modern British Maritime History in a Globalised World
DAVID CANNADINE has recently argued that ‘one of the key themes’ of modern British history had become ‘the sea; for both the British world, and Britain's relations with the world beyond its own dominions, were defined in maritime terms, and should be understood in such terms’. Such a statement would have been very unlikely even a few years ago.1 British maritime history has recently been enjoying something of a renaissance, to judge from the prol…
What the electorate can be expected to swallow’: Nationalisation, transnationalism and the shifting boundaries of the state in post-war Britain
This article attempts to show that there were three key elements to the changing policy mix as regards state economic intervention and ownership in post-war Britain. These have been relatively neglected by economic historians in favour of questions concerning ‘objective’ performance. They were: the uncertainty, confusion and competition of the two main political parties as to what the nationalised sector was for; attempts to escape an unpopular a…
New Histories of British Imperial Communication and the ‘Networked World’ of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
A number of recent histories of Britain’s late‐19th century telegraph network have taken inspiration from many sources, not least historians’ concern to test and delineate the contemporary and modern world of transnational policymaking, the return of maritime history to the forefront of historical studies, and the desire to understand the late 19th century empire that seemed to be drawing strength from technological progress. But another key reas…
The Bank of England: 1950S to 1979 (Studies in Macroeconomic History). By Forrest Capie. * The Decline of Sterling: Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992. By Catherine R. Schenk
There is no doubt that economics are the political battleground of our time. The ongoing crisis of the banking system was first met by desperate attempts to stem banks’ outflow of capital as the world’s financial structure threatened to collapse. This first stage of the drama was then followed by President Obama’s so far relatively unsuccessful attempts to stitch together global and domestic coalitions for continued intervention and growth. In Br…
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, the Foreign Office, and the Sachsenhausen Case, 1964–1968
This communication follows the evolution, reception, and implications of the parliamentary commissioner's critical 1968 report on Foreign Office ‘maladministration’ regarding compensation for British concentration camp inmates. It explores officials' and ministers' attitude to the investigative techniques associated with this new office, as well as their hostile reaction to the publicity and parliamentary controversy to which his work gave rise. …
The foundations of British maritime ascendancy: Resources, logistics and the state, 1755-1815 - By Roger Morriss
Parties, People, and Parliament: Britain’s “Ombudsman” and the Politics of the 1960s
I am doped", I had told the doctor when he had called to see me -and indeed, he wrote it down in evidence against me. My illness had started with giddy turns and curious bouts of automatic talking when I had sat down in a chair and given forth oracular pronouncements, lasting several minutes at a time; words, for which I had been a mere passive vehicle, had formed themselves on my lips and been uttered for the benefit of anyone who happened to be…
The Complexities of 'Consumerism: Choice, Collectivism and Participation within Britain's National Health Service, c.1961-c.1979
This article explores the overlapping and conflicting points of contact between 'consumerism', collectivism and participation in Britain's National Health Service during a period of relatively well-funded expansion during the economic 'golden age' of the 1960s and 1970s. Despite recent neo-liberal attempts to define 'consumerism' around the wishes and choices of the individual, and to conceptualise areas such as individual hospital referrals as p…
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