This first volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service covers its evolution from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854 to the first years of Mrs Thatcher's government in 1981.
Despite current concerns with good governance and policy delivery, little serious attention has been paid to the institution vital to both: the Civil Service. This Official History is designed to remedy this by placing present problems in historical context and by providing a helpful structure in which others, and particularly former officials, may contribute to the debate. Starting with...
This first volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service covers its evolution from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854 to the first yea...
This is Volume II of Prof. Parker's authoritative Official History of UK privatisation, drawing upon internal government papers and interviews with the ministers, civil servants and business people most heavily involved in the major privatisations of the 1987-97 era.
This is Volume II of Prof. Parker's authoritative Official History of UK privatisation, drawing upon internal government papers and interviews with...
This volume describes the events from 1963 up until the British entry into the Common Market in 1975. It will be of interest to students of British political history, European Union politics, diplomatic history and international relations in general.
This volume describes the events from 1963 up until the British entry into the Common Market in 1975. It will be of interest to students of British po...
For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been a central player in the secret machinery of the British Government, acting as broker between the intelligence agencies and the policy-makers. Since its creation, the JIC has been involved in almost every key foreign policy decision taken by the British Government. This volume covers the evolution of the JIC in 1936 and culminates with its role in the fateful events of Suez in 1956.
For more than half a century, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been a central player in the secret machinery of the British Government, acti...
This first volume of the Official History studies the background to privatisation, and the privatisations of the first two Conservative Governments led by Margaret Thatcher from May 1979 to June 1987. First commissioned by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair as an authoritative history, this volume addresses a number of key questions:
To what extent was privatisation a clear policy commitment within the Thatcher Governments of the 1980s - or did Government simply stumble on the idea?
Why were particular public corporations sold early in the 1980s and...
This first volume of the Official History studies the background to privatisation, and the privatisations of the first two Conservative Governments...
Volume I of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government's strategic nuclear policy from 1945 to 1964.
Written with full access to the UK documentary record, this volume examines how British governments after 1945 tried to build and then maintain an independent, nationally controlled strategic capability, and the debates this provoked in official circles. Against a background of evolving British ideas about deterrence during the Cold War, it focuses on the strategic, political and...
Volume I of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British gov...
This second volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service explores the radical restructuring of the Civil Service that took place from 1982-97, covering the bulk of the Thatcher era and the Major adminstration that followed.
This second volume of the Official History of the UK Civil Service explores the radical restructuring of the Civil Service that took place from 1982-9...
This book is the official history of British Cabinet Secretaries, the most senior civil servants in UK government, from the post-war period up to 2002.
In December 1916 Maurice Hankey sat at the Cabinet table to take the first official record of Cabinet decisions. Prior to this there had been no formal Cabinet agenda and no record of Cabinet decisions. Using authoritative government papers, some of which have not yet been released for public scrutiny, this book tells the story of Hankey s post-war successors as they advised British Prime Ministers and recorded Cabinet s crucial...
This book is the official history of British Cabinet Secretaries, the most senior civil servants in UK government, from the post-war period up to 2...
