John Campbell

For Posterity...

What use can historians make of those diaries which politicians keep for posterity – and rush into print? John Campbell considers two viewpoints of the 1964-1970 Wilson government, those of Richard Crossman and of Barbara Castle.

Labour in Power 1945-1951 / The Labour Governments, 1945-1951

by Kenneth O. Morgan / by Henry Pelling

Winston Churchill, a brief life

John Campbell reviews a book by Piers Brendon

The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain

by Stephen Koss

Real Old Tory Politics, the political diaries of Robert Sanders, Lord Bayford 1910-1935

edited by John Ramsden

Give a Dog a Bad Name: Roger Casement & F.E. Smith

John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement

Subscription Manager for Socialism

John Campbell on an overdue biography of the Clement Atlee

War and the State - The Transformation of British Government, 1914-1919

Essential study of the First World War and how it transformed the machinery of government.

Lord Reading

Denis Judd

Harold Macmillan: A Biography

Nigel Fisher

British Economic and Strategic Planning 1905-1915

by David French