Peter Hennessy

Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom

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Gender	Male
Age	77
Date of birth	March 28,1947
Zodiac sign	Aries
Born	Edmonton
	London
	United Kingdom
Office	Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Job	Professor
	Journalist
	Historian
Education	Harvard University
	Marling School Stroud
	St John's College
	St Benedict's School - Senior and Sixth Form
Awards	NCR Book Award
Nominations	Baillie Gifford Prize
	NCR Book Award
Position	Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom since 2010
Children	2
Date of Reg.	2019-02-20 13:58:30
Date of Upd.	2023-08-21 10:38:33
ID	434447

The secret state
Having it so good : Britain in the fifties
Never Again Britain 45/51
The prime minister
The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service
The hidden wiring
Distilling the Frenzy: Writing the History of One's Own Timed
Whitehall
Cabinets and the Bomb
Establishment and Meritocracy
Reflections: Conversations with Politicians
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties
Cabinet
Muddling Through, Power Politics and the Quality of Government in Postwar Britain
The Kingdom to Come: Thoughts on the Union Before and After the Scottish Independence Referendum
The Power of Civil Servants
What the papers never said
States of Emergency: British Governments and Strikebreaking
Rulers and Servants of the State: The Blair Style of Government, 1997-2004
Post War Britain 1946-51
Premiership
Ready, Steady, Go!, New Labour and Whitehall
The Blair Centre: A Question of Command and Control? : a Political Commentary
A History of Intelligence
New Annals of The Club
Beyond Any Mortal? Reflections on the British Premiership
Democracy in Peril: Are Schools Guilty?
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid

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Peter Hennessy Life story

Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary University of London.

Forty years of monster raving loony wannabe MPs

Feb 23,2023 9:51 pm

... In 2017, Peter Hennessy, a constitutional historian who sits in the House of Lords, said the party was " part of the continuity of the realm"...

Simon Case: 'Keeper of secrets' under scrutiny

Feb 3,2023 4:41 pm

... Before he took the post, Mr Case s former PhD tutor, historian Peter Hennessy, told the BBC: " From next week, he will be the ultimate keeper of secrets in the UK...