Government Official History Series
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The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Vol. II
From Rejection to Referendum, 1963-1975
Series: Government Official History Series
This is the second volume in The Official History of Britain and the European Community, and describes the events from 1963 up until the British referendum on the Common Market in 1975. In 1963, General de Gaulle dashed Prime Minister Macmillan’s hopes of taking Britain into the European...
Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
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The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II
Popular Capitalism, 1987-97
Series: Government Official History Series
This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, steel...
Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
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The Official History of the British Civil Service
Reforming the Civil Service, Volume I: The Fulton Years, 1966-81
Series: Government Official History Series
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...
Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Secrecy and the Media
The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System
Series: Government Official History Series
Secrecy and the Media is the first book to examine the development of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication of British national security secrets. It is based on official documents, many of which have not previously been available to...
Published May 25th 2009 by Routledge
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Churchill's Man of Mystery
Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence
Series: Government Official History Series
The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to...
Published April 16th 2009 by Routledge
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The Official History of Privatisation Vol. I
The formative years 1970-1987
Series: Government Official History Series
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...
Published January 18th 2009 by Routledge
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The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1
The Origins of the Falklands War
Series: Government Official History Series
Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the first chapters the author analyses the...
Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
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The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 2
War and Diplomacy
Series: Government Official History Series
In the second volume of his official history of the Falklands Campaign, Lawrence Freedman provides a detailed and authoritative account of one of the most extraordinary periods in recent British political history and a vivid portrayal of a government at war. After the shock of the Argentine...
Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
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The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel
Series: Government Official History Series
Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94. This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and...
Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge
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Official History Falklands, 2 vol. set, Freedman
Published June 27th 2005 by Routledge