Peter Clarke

In the LRB Archive:

• ‘There is a woman behind this!’: Schumpeter · 19 July 2007

  • Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw

• Only Lower Upper: the anti-establishment establishment Jo Grimond · 5 May 2005

  • Liberal Lion: Jo Grimond, a Political Life by Peter Barberis

• Knights’ Moves: The Treasury View · 17 March 2005

  • Keynes and His Critics: Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution 1925-46 edited by G.C. Peden

• Reproaches from the Past: Gordon Brown · 1 April 2004

  • The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown by William Keegan

• Blair Must Go: why Tony Blair should go · 11 September 2003

• Squeamish: Lloyd George versus Haig · 3 April 2003

  • Lloyd George: War Leader by John Grigg

• Labour’s Beachmaster: Jenkins, Healey, Crosland · 23 January 2003

  • Denis Healey: A Life in Our Times by Edward Pearce
  • Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey by Giles Radice

• The Antagoniser’s Agoniser: Keith Joseph · 19 July 2001

  • Keith Joseph by Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett

• The fine blossom of the capitalist system who became a Labour rebel: Stafford Cripps · 27 April 2000

  • Stafford Cripps: A Political Life by Simon Burgess

• On the Blower: the Journals of Woodrow Wyatt · 18 February 1999

  • The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Volume I edited by Sarah Curtis

• The Rise and Fall of Thatcherism: eight years after · 10 December 1998

• Fatalism, Extenuation and Despair: John Major · 5 March 1998

  • Major: A Political Life by Anthony Seldon

• Someone Else, Somewhere Else · 13 November 1997

  • Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals edited by Niall Ferguson

• Balfour’s Ghost · 20 March 1997

  • Why Vote Conservative? by David Willetts
  • Why Vote Liberal Democrat? by William Wallace
  • Why Vote Labour? by Tony Wright

• Smart Alec · 17 October 1996

  • Alec Douglas-Home by D.R. Thorpe

• So far, so-so · 6 June 1996

  • One Hundred Years of Socialism by Donald Sassoon

• God’s Endurance · 30 November 1995

  • Gladstone by Roy Jenkins

• Two-Faced · 21 September 1995

  • LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science by Ralf Dahrendorf

• Maggiefication · 6 July 1995

  • The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher

• Why Do the Tories Always Have the Luck? · 23 February 1995

  • Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 edited by Anthony Seldon and Stuart Ball

• Is Quebec Crying Wolfe? · 22 December 1994
  Peter Clarke and Maria Tippett

• Serial Evangelists · 23 June 1994

  • Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931-83 by Richard Cockett

• Having it both ways · 27 January 1994

  • A.J.P. Taylor: A Biography by Adam Sisman
  • A.J.P. Taylor: The Traitor within the Gates by Robert Cole
  • From Napoleon to the Second International: International Essays on the 19th Century by A.J.P. Taylor, edited by Chris Wrigley

• Here we go · 21 October 1993

• Tale from a Silver Age · 22 July 1993

  • Edward Heath: A Biography by John Campbell

• Lawson’s Case · 28 January 1993

  • The View from No 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical by Nigel Lawson

• Maastricht or no Maastricht · 19 November 1992

• Scoutmaster General · 24 September 1992

  • Tony Benn by Jad Adams
  • The End of an Era: Diaries, 1980-1990 by Tony Benn, edited by Ruth Winstone

• Baring his teeth · 25 June 1992

  • The Macmillans: The Story of a Dynasty by Richard Davenport-Hines

• Up the avenue · 11 June 1992

  • Election Rides by Edward Pearce

• Hook and Crook · 15 August 1991

  • Suez by Keith Kyle

• Who ruins Britain? · 22 November 1990

  • Friends in High Places: Who runs Britain? by Jeremy Paxman
  • The Sunday Times Book of the Rich by Philip Beresford

• Into the sunset · 30 August 1990

  • Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain edited by J.C.D. Clark
  • The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Roger Scruton

• Diary · 16 August 1990

• Diary · 28 June 1990

• Jews on horseback · 10 May 1990

  • Disraeli by John Vincent

• Seeing it all · 12 October 1989

  • The Time of My life by Denis Healey

• When the pistol goes off · 17 August 1989

  • Arnold Toynbee: A Life by William McNeill

• Is it a bird, is it a plane? · 18 May 1989

  • The Pleasures of the Past by David Cannadine

• Hoylake · 30 March 1989

  • Selwyn Lloyd by D.K. Thorpe

• Starting up · 6 November 1986

  • The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924-1936 by Harold James
  • The Making of Keynes’s General Theory by Richard Kahn
  • Towards the Managed Economy: Keynes, the Treasury and the Fiscal Policy Debate of the 1930s by Roger Middleton
  • Keynes and his Contemporaries edited by G.C. Harcourt
  • The Policy Consequences of John Maynard Keynes edited by Harold Wattel

• Enemies Within · 7 February 1985

• What Keynes really meant · 19 April 1984

  • The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Vol. XI: Economic Articles and Correspondence, Academic edited and translated by Donald Moggridge
  • Keynesian Economics: The Search for First Principles by Alan Coddington
  • Keynes’s Economics and the Theory of Value and Distribution edited by John Eatwell and Murray Milgate
  • Capital and Employment: A Study of Keynes’s Economics by Murray Milgate

• Burrinchini’s Spectre · 19 January 1984

  • That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in 19th-Century Intellectual History by Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow

• Margaret Thatcher is about to have another of her triumphs · 2 June 1983

• First past the post · 17 February 1983

  • The People of England by Maurice Ashley
  • A New History of England, 410-1975 by L.C.B. Seaman
  • The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 by Martin Pugh

• A Time for War · 21 October 1982

  • The Rebirth of Britain edited by Wayland Kennet
  • Claret and Chips by Hugh Stephenson

• Can Maynard Keynes do it? · 3 June 1982

  • The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Vol. XIX. Activities 1924-9: The Return to Gold and Industrial Policy edited by Sir Austin Robinson and Donald Moggridge
  • The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Vol. XX. Activities 1929-31: Rethinking Employment and Unemployment Policies edited by Sir Austin Robinson and Donald Moggridge
  • The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Vol. XXI. Activities 1931-9: edited by Sir Austin Robinson and Donald Moggridge

• Crossman and Social Democracy · 16 April 1981

  • The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman edited by Janet Morgan

• History’s Revenges · 5 March 1981

  • The Illustrated Dictionary of British History edited by Arthur Marwick
  • Who’s Who in Modern History, 1860-1980 by Alan Palmer

• The light that failed · 18 September 1980

  • The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848 by Maxine Berg
  • Masters, Unions and Men by Richard Price
  • Work, Society and Politics by Patrick Joyce

• Strachey, Prospero, and The Seventh Heaven · 22 May 1980

  • The Shorter Strachey selected and introduced by Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy
  • Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd

• Whipping the wicked · 17 April 1980

  • The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism by Ian Bradley

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