The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten

Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon's book gives a picture of the workings of prime ministerial power in Britain from 1970 onwards and throws the spotlight on those who work there. It examines the various units serving the Prime Minister, the powerful influence of officials, the tensions between civil servants and political aides, and it takes the reader through the six premierships from Ted Heath to Tony Blair. Kavanagh and Seldon have had unprecedented co-operation from senior civil servants and government insiders - both past and present - as well as from former Prime Ministers, secretaries and other Downing Street staff. As most of the period covered by the book still falls under the Thirty Year rule, it contains material that has never before been disclosed which sheds an illuminating new slant on much of the politics of the last forty years.

SELDON, ANTHONY

Kavanagh, Dennis

Legal Theory & Systems

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

10 Downing Street: The Illustrated History

10 Downing Street: The Illustrated History

HarperCollins Illustrated

The ideas that shaped post-war Britain (A Fontana Press original)

Marquand, David

Fontana Press

How many people know what lies on the other side of the door to 10 Downing Street, or indeed, who built the building? Providing a portrait of the centre of a British Prime Minister's power, this book contains revelatory material on the private behaviour of many of the 20th century's political leaders, as well as an anlysis of how successive Prime Ministers have wielded their power within these 18th-century walls.

The Powers Behind the Prime Minister

HarperCollins, UK

The book takes us inside the Foreign Secretary's London home, 1 Carlton Gardens, and his country retreats, Dorneywood and Chevening. We hear tales of the life of ambassadors abroad, where the glittering parties and glamorous living quarters of an ambassador to Paris contrast with the accommodation that might be on offer to an ambassador and his entourage in Berlin or Moscow, and we look at the fascinating clandestine methods by which the Foreign Office communicated with its far-flung empire and embassies abroad.The story of the building is also the story of the struggle between two great architects - George Gilbert Scott, the architect of the Foreign Office itself, and Matthew Digby Wyatt, the architect of the India Office section of the building. Their contrasting styles still define the building today, and are revealed in Kim Sayer's contemporary photographs of the lavish and ornate rooms of the Locarno Suite; the magnificent Grand Staircase with its extraordinary murals; the Foreign Secretary's Room and the beautiful India Office buildings. Along with a wealth of material from the Foreign Office archives, much previously unseen, they combine to make this book both a celebration of the building and its work today and a testament to a time when the Foreign Office was the nerve centre of the world's greatest power.

Foreign Office

History

Europe

Cameron at 10: The Inside Story 2010–2015

Five years in the making, ‘Cameron at 10’ is the gripping inside story of the Cameron premiership, based on over 300 in-depth interviews with senior figures in 10 Downing Street, including the Prime Minister himself.
As dusk descended on 11 May 2010, David Cameron entered 10 Downing Street as the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. He stood at the head of the first Coalition government in 65 years, with the country in dire economic straits following a deep financial crisis.
From the early heady days of the Rose Garden partnership with the Liberal Democrats to the most bitterly contested general election in years, ‘Cameron at 10’ highlights forty dramatic moments in an exceptionally turbulent period in British politics. The book contains all the highs and lows on the domestic front as well as providing revealing insights into the Prime Minister’s relationships with foreign leaders, particularly the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama.
With unprecedented access to the ‘inner circle’ of politicians and civil servants that surround the Prime Minister, from Chancellor George Osborne and former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to all of Cameron’s personal team, this is the most intimate account of a serving prime minister that has ever been published.

Biographies & Memoirs

Snowdon, Peter

Historical

William Collins

The career of Britain's youngest Prime Minister since 1812 came to a dramatic end after the EU referendum. This account of his premiership covers the turbulent years from the 2010 coalition, through the 2015 election to his resignation in June 2016. Rigorously researched and drawing on access to senior figures including George Osborne, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Cameron himself, it sheds light on his relations with Barack Obama, EU leaders, and Tory Brexiteers.

The Blair Effect is a collection of authoritative and (reasonably) unpartisan commentaries on the first administration of Tony Blair as it approaches a General Election. The authors demonstrate that it is possible to write contemporary history about even the most recent past in an accessible yet scrupulously objective manner. Contributors include Peter Riddell, Vernon Bogdanor, Dennis Kavanagh, and a host of other star analysts.

The Blair Effect: The Blair Government 1997-2001

Little,Brown

Winston Churchill was seventy-six when the Conservative Party won the 1951 General Election. At the third attempt since the end of the Second World War he had finally been returned to power by the will of the people. A lifetime's ambition had been achieved after nearly a half a century in Parliament.\nYet the Conservative Government he led between 1951 and 1955 remains largely unchronicled. The thirty-year-old rule on Cabinet papers means that not until 1986 will all the material on Churchill's last years as Prime Minister be released.\nBut Anthony Seldon, a research fellow at the London School of Economics,, has circumvented the problem by interviewing over two hundred surviving politicians and civil servants and gaining access to a multitude of hitherto unpublished papers and diaries, including those of former Cabinet Ministers.\nThe Churchill of the period has been portrayed, thanks principally to the diaries of his doctor, Lord Moran, as increasingly ga-ga. Seldon, from his interviews and studies of the papers, believes this view to be exaggerated. He portrays Churchill in the autumn of his years, enjoying an Indian summer and determined to achieve a summit meeting with the Soviet Union so that he might hand over to his successor with the world in a better state than when he took office.

Churchill's Indian Summer: The Conservative Government 1951-55

Hodder&Stoughton

The UK National Curriculum states that schools should reaffirm commitment to the virtues of truth, justice, honesty, trust and a sense of duty. This aim, loosely defined as 'character' education, is widely agreed to be critical to healthy development and a fair, just and democratic society. 
But what exactly is 'character' and how best to educate for it? This vitally important book, written by five internationally prominent figures and government advisers, aims to answer that question. Accessibly written and brimming with inspirational ideas, it looks at questions of research, education, government policy and societal engagement with character, including in the light of COVID-19 and the huge debt owed to the public services frontline. 
This book is a fascinating and vital read for parents, teachers and anyone concerned with social justice, developing the energy and passion of young people and working towards a better, stronger, fairer society. 
This could very well be the most important book you read all year!

Educating for a Characterful Society: Responsibility and the Public Good

Education & Teaching

Arthur, James

O'Shaughnessy, James

Morgan, Nicky

Cleverdon, Julia

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

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The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten

10 Downing Street: The Illustrated History

The ideas that shaped post-war Britain (A Fontana Press original)

The Powers Behind the Prime Minister

Foreign Office

Cameron at 10: The Inside Story 2010–2015

Cameron at 10: The Inside Story 2010–2015

The Blair Effect: The Blair Government 1997-2001

Churchill's Indian Summer: The Conservative Government 1951-55

Educating for a Characterful Society: Responsibility and the Public Good