Anthony Seldon

The Cabinet Office 1916-2016: The Birth of Modern Government

Musik: Meakin, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of the Cabinet Office, created in the depths of the Great War in December 1916, goes to the very heart of the British state over the last 100 years. Written with unparalleled access to documents and personnel, this lavishly illustrated history will give readers the definitive inside account of its workings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781785901737
• ISBN-10: 1785901737
• Artikelnr.: 46504492

Autorenporträt

Anthony Seldon has written and edited more than thirty books on British politics. He is a co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary British History and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. Jonathan Meakin: Jonathan Meakin was educated at Royal Holloway, University of London and at the University of St Andrews. He has had a lifelong interest in history.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Foreword by Jeremy Heywood xiii
Introduction: The Argument xvii
Chapter 1 Cabinet Government Before 1916 1
Chapter 2 The Creation of the Cabinet Office: The Cabinet Secretariat and
the First World War, 1916-18 25
Chapter 3 Maurice Hankey and the Interwar Years, 1918-39 41
Chapter 4 Edward Bridges and the Second World War, 1938-45 73
Chapter 5 Norman Brook: Commander of the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1946-63 105
Chapter 6 Housing the Cabinet Office, 1916-2016 141
Chapter 7 Burke Trend and John Hunt: Adjusting to the Modern Era, 1963-79
153
Chapter 8 Robert Armstrong and Robin Butler: The Last of the
Traditionalists,1979-98 195
Chapter 9 New Labour, New Challenges: Wilson, Turnbull and O'Donnell,
1997-2010 235
Chapter 10 Coalition and Beyond, 2010-16 279
Endnotes 299
Bibliography 331
Picture Credits 345
Index 347