Ian Gilmour

Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died in September 2007.

In the LRB Archive:

• Dingy Quadrilaterals: the Profumo Case · 19 October 2006

  • Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir by David Profumo

• Vote for the Beast!: the Tory Leadership · 20 October 2005

• Little Mania: The disgraceful Lady Caroline Lamb · 19 May 2005

  • Lady Caroline Lamb by Paul Douglass

• Out of Bounds: why Wordsworth sold a lot less than Byron · 20 January 2005

  • The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period by William St Clair

• The other side have got one: Lady Thatcher’s Latest · 6 June 2002

  • Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the 20th Century by E.H.H. Green
  • Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World by Margaret Thatcher

• Sagest of Usurpers: Cromwell since Cromwell · 21 March 2002

  • Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity by Blair Worden

• Little Mercians: why Kenneth Clarke should lead the Tories · 5 July 2001

• Termagant: The Cliveden Set · 19 October 2000

  • The Cliveden Set: Portrait of an Exclusive Fraternity by Norman Rose

• Fuss, Fatigue and Rage: Two Duff Kings · 15 July 1999

  • George IV by E.A. Smith

• Hauteur on Britain and Europe · 10 December 1998

  • This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young

• I could light my pipe at her eyes on women and politics in Victorian Britain · 3 September 1998

  • Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
  • Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain by K.D. Reynolds
  • Lady Byron and Earl Shilton by David Herbert

• Diary at the Terminal 5 Enqiry · 19 March 1998

• ‘Spurious’ is the word we want · 28 November 1996

  • Diplomacy and Disillusion at the Court of Margaret Thatcher by George Urban

• Inhumane, Intolerant, Unclean · 31 October 1996

  • A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong
  • Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak
  • City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present edited by Nitza Rosovsky
  • Jerusalem in the 20th Century by Martin Gilbert
  • Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman Finkelstein
  • To Rule Jerusalem by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht

• Centre-Stage · 1 August 1996

  • The Younger Pitt: The Consuming Struggle by John Ehrman

• Diary · 23 May 1996

• Excepting the Aristocratical · 23 March 1995

  • Marriage, Debt and the Estates System: English Landownership 1650-1950 by John Habakkuk

• My Israel, Right or Wrong · 22 December 1994

  • War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy by Avi Shlaim

• Napoleon was wrong · 24 June 1993

  • Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain 1750-1990 by W.D. Rubinstein
  • British Multinational Banking by Geoffrey Jones
  • Going for Broke: How Banking Mismanagement in the Eighties Lost Thousands of Billions of Pounds by Russell Taylor

• No thanks to the liberal revolution · 9 July 1992

  • The Economic Legacy 1979-1992 edited by Jonathan Michie
  • The Godley Papers: Economic Problems and Policies in the 1980s and 90s by Wynne Godley
  • Full Employment in the 1990s by John Grieve Smith

• Poor Man’s Crime · 5 December 1991

  • The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century by Peter Linebaugh

• The Way Forward · 25 October 1990

  • The Economic Limits to Modern Politics edited by John Dunn

• In Praise of Middle Government · 12 July 1990

  • Liberalisms. Essays in Political Philosophy by John Gray
  • The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education edited by Timothy Fuller
  • The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco
  • Conservatism by Ted Honderich

• Holding all the strings · 27 July 1989

  • Macmillan. Vol. II: 1957-1986 by Alistair Horne

• Supermac’s Apprenticeship · 24 November 1988

  • Macmillan 1894-1956 by Alistair Horne

• Terrorism · 23 October 1986

  • Britain’s Civil Wars: Counter-Insurgency in the 20th Century by Charles Townshend
  • Terrorism and the Liberal State by Paul Wilkinson
  • Terrorism: How the West can win edited by Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism by Franklin Ford
  • The Financing of Terror by James Adams
  • They dare to speak out: People and institutions confront Israel’s lobby by Paul Findley

• Gentlemen and Intellectuals · 17 October 1985

  • Balfour: Intellectual Statesman by Ruddock Mackay
  • Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics by David Dutton

• Pseudo-Travellers · 7 February 1985

  • From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict by Joan Peters

• Second Last Leader · 7 June 1984

  • Another Heart and Other Pulses: The Alternative to the Thatcher Society by Michael Foot

• America and Israel · 18 February 1982

  • The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East by Mahmoud Riad
  • Palestinian Self-Determination by Hassan Bin Talal
  • This Year in Jerusalem by Kenneth Cragg

• Monetarism and History · 21 January 1982

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