Peter Hennessy

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Peter Hennessy is an English historian of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

From the early 1970s, he was a journalist. He wrote leaders for The Times, for whom he was also its Whitehall Correspondent. He was The Financial Times' Lobby Correspondent at Westminster and he wrote for The Economist. He co-founded of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1986. He was a regular presenter of Analysis on BBC Radio 4 from 1987 to 1992. From 1994 to 1997, he gave public lectures as professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London.

His analysis of post-war Britain, Never Again: Britain 1945-1951, won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1992 and the NCR Award for Non-Fiction in 1993.

On November 17, 2005, he made a trenchant appearance alongside Lord Wilson of Dinton before the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee on the publication of political memoirs.

[edit] Bibliography

• Cabinet (1986)
• Whitehall (1989)
• Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (1992)
• The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution (1995)
• The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945 (2000)
• The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War (2002)
• Having It So Good: Britain 1951-64 (2006)

[edit] References

• Guest, Fiona. 'Peter Hennesy FBA', Staff of QMUL Department of History, 2005. Retrieved December 31, 2005.
• 'Corrected Oral Transcript of Oral Evidence presented to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee on the publication of political memoirs on 17 November 2005 by Lord Wilson of Dinton and Professor Peter Hennessy', 7 December 2005. Retrieved December 31, 2005.

[edit] See also

• list of Gresham Professors of Rhetoric