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Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly... -
Cabinets and the Bomb by Peter Hennessy 9780197264225
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $116.76The nuclear weapons question runs through post-1940 British history like an irradiated thread. It represents part of the hidden history of twentieth-century Britain, given the high level of technical... -
Reflections: Interviews with Politicians by Peter Hennessy
Booksplease Price: $43.66The historian, wrote E. L. Doctorow, will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art... -
The Complete Reflections: Conversations with Politicians by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38On 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... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the... -
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy'By far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and... -
The Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing Peter Hennessy 9781913368852
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $44.90As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his... -
On the Back of and Envelope: A Life in Writing Peter Hennessy 9781914979323
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his... -
Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.81Winner of the Orwell Prize The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.30One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much... -
The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Corona by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.46One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much... -
The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution by Peter Hennessy 9781913368715
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10The British constitution matters. Its observance is crucial to the well-being of all our people, to every state activity and deployment of government power. It is crucial to the face our society... -
The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.20In The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945, Peter Hennessy explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on... -
Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021-22 by Peter Hennessy 9781913368883
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.91Peter Hennessy brings his deep political and historical understanding to this study of two of the most turbulent and disruptive years experienced by Britain in peacetime. As the protracted withdrawal... -
The New Protective State: Government, Intelligence and Terrorism by Peter Hennessy 9781847062536
Booksplease Price: $57.02The gathering of information by the Intelligence Services is now an issue of major importance in the modern world. But what are the ethical responsibilities of these bodies. How is that intelligence... -
The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy 9780312293130
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $86.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312293130Author Peter HennessyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher... -
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $25.37'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal... -
The Kingdom to Come: Thoughts on the Union Before and After the Scottish Referendum by Peter Hennessy
Booksplease Price: $36.65In The Kingdom to Come, Peter Hennessy records the run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum in September 2014, its immediate aftermath and describes the enormous constitutional building site... -
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The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy 9780141044699 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $14.74Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now... -
Could it Happen Here?: The Day a Prime Minister Refuses to Resign Peter Hennessy 9781914979187
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64In Could It Happen Here?, Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick pose the question of whether the UK's constitution sufficiently protects our democracy against an authoritarian takeover. Put simply, they... -
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON) by Mr Richard King 9780571295654
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral... -
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary SupplementFrom one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $22.64Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and... -
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No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s by Andy McSmith 9781849019798 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.67The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial, like the... -
Recollections of the 1950s: Home, Family and New Horizons by Stephen F Kelly 9781803993775
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55The 1950s saw a major shift in the lifestyles of many in Britain. Employment levels rose to new heights, white consumer goods appeared in shop windows for the first time, television replaced the... -
No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s Andy McSmith 9781849019798
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial, like the... -
The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.18A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades leading up to WW1 from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K... -
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947179
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.25After darkness, there is always light In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates 9781802060522
Booksplease Price: $19.87The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from... -
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon, a hauntingly beautiful child, Fritha, visits Rhayader, bringing with her an injured snow... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore 9780241573570
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $61.82Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore 9780241573587
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $61.82The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in... -
How To Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates 9780241579602
Booksplease Price: $35.64The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from... -
This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe by Robert Tombs
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGeography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of... -
How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary... -
Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan by Christopher Bayly
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of...