On the Back of and Envelope: A Life in Writing - Softcover

Hennessy, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191497932X ISBN 13: 9781914979323

Verlag: Haus Publishing, 2025

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As 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 career as a journalist on The Times, the Economist and the Financial Times, developing a network of insider contacts who helped him to shine a light on some of the dustiest corners of the British establishment. As a journalist, prize-winning contemporary historian and political commentator he has chronicled the workings of the British state with wit, affection and a healthy sense of the absurd over a five-decade career. Now a crossbench peer, he has, in his own words, ‘moved in with his exhibits’. Hennessy is also a stalwart of BBC election night coverage, and a regular commentator on Radio 4, bringing a historical and constitutional perspective on current events.

In this new volume, he brings together selected journalism, unpublished lectures and new writing alongside personal recollections and reflections on his time observing post-war Britain, how it is governed and those who do the governing. He reflects on the making and unmaking of Prime Ministers from Attlee to Truss, life in the House of Lords, and the changing constitutional landscape in the wake of Brexit and in the midst of uncertainty about the Union. Interspersed with lectures, journalism and new pieces, Hennessy looks back at a fascinating career, reflecting on his own experiences as a young green graduate navigating the hard-nosed world of Fleet Street in the 1970s, bringing to life a cast of characters from a world now largely gone. He also revisits his time as a public historian, academic and crossbench peer with a levity reflected in his belief that history is ‘gossip with footnotes’

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Peter Hennessy started his career as a journalist for The Times, later becoming one of Britain's best-known historians. His books include a 'post-war trilogy', Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties (winner of the Orwell Prize) and Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, and the bestselling The Prime Minister, The Secret State and, most recently, A Duty of Care. He was Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London, and is now an independent crossbench life Peer in 2010.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Haus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 191497932X
• ISBN 13: 9781914979323
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306
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