Getting European Defence Projects off the Ground
In the 1960s Anglo-French efforts to collaborate on a new combat aircraft – the BAC/Dassault AFVG – hit turbulence.
Harold Wilson
The Problem with Britain’s Pensions
How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is pension reform so difficult?
How Does History Judge Prime Ministers?
Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of Britain’s prime ministers can be hard to predict.
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
On the centenary of Britain’s first Labour government, three recent histories cast a sympathetic eye over Ramsay MacDonald’s nine months in Number 10.
Main Man
The ‘pragmatic and principled’ Harold Wilson.
Britain, the Vietnam War, and the Special Relationship
Though Harold Wilson’s government rejected US requests to send British troops to Vietnam, Britain did not stay out of the war.
Harold Wilson: A Reappraisal
Ian Cawood charts the changing reputation of a key figure in the postwar Labour Party.