Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.

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 on Stafford Cripps · 27 April 2000

  • Stafford Cripps: A Political Life by Simon Burgess

• On the Blower on 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 on 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

• 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 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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